Managing photos

We have an iMac that a number of family members have been storing photos on. They are all in one account but some are in iPhoto folders, some in an application from the digital camera we have and some appear to be duplicated.

I there an application or procedure I can use to manage these photos to make sure that we do not have multiple copies of the photos.

thanks for any suggestions

Bill

there are some free apps you can find around mac software sites which search for duplicate photos in iPhoto.
*goes off to find links*

•Requires a fee, but you could probably use the demo to get things cleaned up.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/18748

•This looks better, does more, and is free. In fact, I'd probably just go with this
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11668

ezflyer said:

We have an iMac that a number of family members have been storing photos on. They are all in one account but some are in iPhoto folders, some in an application from the digital camera we have and some appear to be duplicated.

I there an application or procedure I can use to manage these photos to make sure that we do not have multiple copies of the photos.

thanks for any suggestions

Bill

Click to expand...

To stop the duplicates you need to decide whether you're going to use iPhoto or your digital cameras software app to manage your pics.

If you choose iPhoto, once they are imported they are catalogued in special iPhoto folders, so you won't need to store them in any other location and if you have them sitting in a folder or on your desktop then just delete those cos they are going to be duplicates of the iPhoto library.

iPhoto can probably handle the importing of your pictures as well, so I would ditch that program & just use iPhoto for everything.

Just drag all the pics from the other app into iPhoto, and then use a tool to go through the duplicates and sort them out.