In my case, I told it to keep iPhoto images first (since these are most likely to have ratings, captions, and so on), then Aperture, then whatever's on my HDD somewhere. Second, it lets you automatically define a priority for which version of a duplicate photo to save. First, it is happy to look at all the sources I mentioned above, and compare pics across them. There's a lot to love about Photosweeper. (I was too excited to take screenshots of the process, unfortunately!) I used it yesterday to clear 34GB of wasted space on my HDD. Thankfully, there is an excellent OSX app called Photosweeper made for just this purpose. So, the first step to photo sanity is to get rid of these duplicates. A lot of these might be duplicated because, for example, you were just trying out Lightroom and didn't want to commit to it so you put your pics there but also in Aperture. You should definitely read those.īut, while Apple and/or Dropbox get their act together (I'm not holding my breath), you have to make sense of your photos in your Pictures folder, in your Dropbox Photos folder, in various other Dropbox shared folders, on your Desktop, in your Lightroom, Aperture, and iPhoto collections, and so on. Peter Nixey has an excellent post on the disappointing state of affairs (to put it kindly) and an excellent follow-up on how Dropbox could fix it.
This eats up precious storage space and makes finding that one photo an exercise in frustration. As new cameras, software, and online storage and sharing services come and go, our collections end up strewn all over the place, often in duplicate. It's no secret that the photo management problem is a huge mess.
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