#Picture duplicate detector download#
#Picture duplicate detector mac#

What puzzles me is that the 'deleted' photos are still showing up as 'new' photos that should be imported when I do so. I plug my phone into my iMac to charge it on occasion. This would delete the photos you just imported everywhere. The 'Delete after Import' is not available, if you are importing from a device syncing with iCloud. That option seems no longer to be available. One thing that I've noticed is that Photos on my iMac used to have an option to 'Delete photos after import'. I've double-checked and all 5 of my devices are set to sync photos via iCloud. To avoid duplicates avoid any format conversion when downloading from the iPhone, and avoid to mix the syncing with iCloud with other methods or import.

#Picture duplicate detector mac#

These saved photos are smaller than the originals on your Mac and cannot be recognised as duplicates by the Mac. whenever you save phots on your iPhone from shared albums or My Photo Stream, or save sync photos to the iPhone, they will be saved on the iPhone in a smaller resolution.

Another source of duplicates could be My Photo Stream or shared albums.

Avoid the conversion to JPEG and import the HEIC files, or set the camera to take the photos as JPEGs, if you prefer to have JPEGs on your Mac.

If your iPhone camera is set to use the High Efficiency format when taking photos, but you are importing the photos converted to JPEGs, you will be seeing the same photos over and over again as new photos, as you are importing converted versions and not the originals on the iPhone.

If you are not using iCloud Photos the duplicate detection on import should work and the Mac should not be showing already imported photos for importing.

DO not import manually from the iPhone, if you are using iCloud Photos. The duplicate detection will not be able to tell, which photos have already been transferred by iCloud and which are really new. You have to check carefully, if there are really new photos. You will continually be seeing apparently new photos, when you connect the iPhone, but that will probably only the local downloads from iCloud on the iPhone as new files. This will create duplicates, as the photos will automatically be transferred by iCloud Photos.

#Picture duplicate detector download#

If you are using iCloud Photos and iPhone and Mac are synced by iCloud, there would be no need to download photos manually from the iPhone.Otherwise you will have to delete them from the iPhone as well. Only then the deletion of photos from your Mac will sync to your iPhone. 10.15.7 (latest OS that can be installed)Īre you using iCloud Photos on your Mac and your iPhone? Today, I again plugged in my iPhone and lo and behold, Photos wants to reimport all those supposedly deleted photos once again.

Undeterred, I created another duplicate photos album, imported the photos from my phone to that album and again deleted them all with the warning that doing so would delete them from my iMac, iCloud, and all connected devices. Photos opened on my iMac wanting to import all those 'deleted' duplicate photos. For good measure, I also went to the 'Recently Deleted' and deleted them there as well.Ī couple of days later, I plugged in my iPhone to my iMac to charge it. I was warned that doing so would delete all of the photos from my iMac, iCloud, and all connected devices. The app moved them to a separate album and I held down the 'command' key where I was given the option to delete all the photos in that album. After spending a couple of hours going through them, I flagged about 600 photos that were dupes.

I downloaded an app to help me identify duplicate photos on my iMac.