Unfortunately, there's currently no way to automatically detect and delete duplicate photos. The only thing you can do is to remove them manually from your account. Either via the Dropbox or Carousel website or via the Dropbox desktop application.
1) Go to www.carousel.com (please log into your account if you haven't already)
2) Navigate to the item that appears to be duplicated
3) Click on the little check mark icon overlying the thumbnail of the duplicate (which you can find on the top right of each thumbnail)
4) Click on the three dots icon on the top right of the screen and choose "Show in folder"
5) Note the location of this file in your Dropbox
6) Repeat steps 3 to 5 for another instance of the item that appears to be duplicated
7) Delete the redundant copies from their location
Hey if you able to access some other third party tools can use duplicate photos fixer app easily available on mac app store also. just run it and add your drop box folder in the software its automatically scan all duplicate photos and mark them to delete as per your choice you can delete them if found duplicates click here for delete duplicate photos
Dropbox has become ubiquitous digital drawer of the netizens of the planet. The 8-step guide to remove the duplicates is tedious and ineffective. It's not an impossible job to equip Carousel (or Dropbox interface) with a tool to find and eradicate duplicates. Or point users to install third party tools to do this mundane job, if such utilities are indeed available. May it happen. Amen.
When I try and add Photos library to Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro it says 'items already excluded from scanning' and suggests I change preferences. I went to preferred (they gave me the link) and have deleted library from excluded list but I still can't add the library.
I would be careful using that app if it automatically deleted the duplicate photos from the library. That's a recipe for disaster. I've not been able to test it as it doesn't have a demo version to try.
If I were you I'd create a test library and import a number of duplicated photos into it. Then run DPFP on it and verify that it is safe to use. Some duplicate finding apps just move the dups to the Trash bin without modifying the library's database. This is what kills libraries.
PowerPhotos is the iPhoto Library Manager version for Photos and is very powerful. Although more expensive I would recommend it as it has more capabilities than the others like the capability to merge Photos libraries or copy photos along with their metadata between libraries.
and be very careful as third party duplicate software may damage or destroy your library or your Mac - Using third-party apps to remove duplicate photos might damage your Photos for macOS library - Apple Support
PowerPhotos, Duplicate Annihilator for Photos and PhotoSweeper for Photos have been tested by users here and are safe, I would not personally use any untested program and particularly would not use one that does not even work with Photos
As a long-time user of Adobe forums (primarily Dreamweaver), I have learned to trust them for good answers, so I hope you can help me with a non-Adobe type question. I have oodles of photos taken over the years (with non-digital methods) and have scanned them (both positives and negatives) for my own preservation. I would like to do two things to these photos:
Hey Nancy! It's great to find old friends here - was hoping this would happen. I have been fully retired since early 2018, and haven't even been lurking, but I kept a few good clients primarily doing maintenance jobs for them. Meanwhile, I have been doing things for myself like digitizing and archiving my hundreds (thousands?) of photos taken over the last 40 years. This is where my qduplicates question arises. I'm not familiar with Bridge and will just dig right in and see what it's about! Thanks for your suggestion. And it's great chatting with you...
How would they, as they were scanned... You won't find anything in the Adobe corner, I fear. You will need to google your solution. There are a lot of search results, unfortuneatly none of them are from a known source to me.
Looking for a duplicate photo finder which sorts photos by "date modified" - which I understand is the same date as the photo was actually taken.
I have already purchased Duplicate Photo Fixer Pro, and unfortunately, this duplicate photo finder does NOT have the option of sorting the duplicate photos by "date modified".
To be clear, I am wanting to retain the image which shows that the photo was taken.Eg. 11 June 2016 for example, rather than any other date. That way, for example, I can look at the properties of a particular photo (should I wish to) and I can accurately ascertain how old my child was on the date the photo was taken.
Hope that makes sense!
If you know of a progarm that does this, I would be most grateful for your help!
Windows Explorer should work? You can add MANY things to the folder view & to sort via & just use the Search function to find whatever you are looking for. Quite powerful if you learn how to use it. Learn how to Right Click the menu bar to add or remove displayed columns (Date Modified, Created, etc..). Do a web or YouTube search for tutorials on how to use Windows Explorer.
Also search the forums for Duplicate photo finder threads of which there have been many & NONE are any more magical than learning how to use a file manager or image browser, or IME, any more useful than learning to use the OS file manager or free image browser such as FastStone, Bridge, irfranview, etc..
Actually, when you copy a file in Windows it's the "Date Created" that is set to time that the file was copied. The new file's "date modified" is set to the same as the original. I've always thought this was dumb behaviour because it results in files that appear to have been modified before they were created.
However the modification date is changed if you edit the file, which makes it a bit suspect to use for matching purposes. Ideally you'd use the "Date Taken" field in the file's EXIF data, as that is not modified by any Windows operations.
my camera's clock was set to the time zone of the country I was in, which was not my home country. The laptop I was using to back-up my photo files was never connected to the internet so did not update to the new time zone but was left at a different time zone of another country I had visited previously. When I returned home, I backed up to my desktop, which of course was set to the time zone of my home country.
my camera's clock was set to the time zone of the country I was in, which was not my home country. The laptop I was using to back-up my photo files was never connected to the internet so did not update to the new time zone but was left at a different time zone of another country I had visited previously. When I returned home, I backed up to my fdesktop, which of course was set to the time zone of my home country.
Most modern OSes actually store the file metadata dates (created/modified/accessed) in Universal Time. When you create or modify a file they convert from local time to UT and store that in the file metadata, and when they display the information they convert back from UT to local time. This means that your file dates can appear to change if you move the computer from one time zone to another and change the time zone setting to match.
For someone who's traveling that presents an interesting dilemma: do you leave your computer set to your home time zone so that, say, a photo taken at noon in London England still shows up as "noon" when you get back to California, or do you change the time zone to UT and deal with the fact that your vacation photo appears to have been taken at 4AM California time (which is in fact what actually happened).
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