PhotoSweeper VS Powerphotos

For folks who know they have duplicate photos, but also a photo library large enough that it's hard to manually de-dupe them, I can strongly recommend PhotoSweeper (no affiliation). https://overmacs.com/ What's unique about PhotoSweeper is that it gives you deep control over what you mean by "dupe" and supports pro image formats like RAW and DNG. For example, I was able to automatically de-dupe... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

I’ve used PhotoSweeper for stuff like this before: https://overmacs.com. Source: about 1 year ago

PowerPhotos or PhotoSweeper X should do the job. Source: over 1 year ago

There are applications for that. I have used PhotoSweeper. Source: over 1 year ago

To keep albums pristine, know that takeout exports two copies of files that are in albums : once in the album folder, once in the year folder. So make sure when deleting duplicates with PhotoSweeper for photos, and Video simili duplicate cleaner for videos, to mark the album folders as “prefered” or “locked” folders to be kept at all costs. Source: over 1 year ago

You could try opening the library with PowerPhotos, a commercial app that can manage multiple Photos libraries, to see if it can read it. You could also try my free open source command line tool, osxphotos. Install it then run this command in the Terminal: osxphotos info --library /path/to/the/library This should print out a list of information about the library: number of photos, number of albums, keywords in... Source: 5 months ago

On a Mac you could also use something like Power Photos to manage multiple libraries and keep the videos on a local-only (no iCloud sync) library. Source: 12 months ago

If you don't want to mess with the command line, there's a third part PowerPhotos app that might help but I'm not very familiar with it. Source: about 1 year ago

Apertue was built from Photos but given the interface of Final Cut Pro. Apple dropped Aperture and rebuilt Photos to include features from Aperture such as Metadata, Folders, Keyword Management, Edit Tools, and Raw photos. Typical to Apple, Photos has slowly improved over time. Photos now has Duplicate finding and merge, so I no longer need to use PowerPhotos. Source: over 1 year ago

PowerPhotos will let you analyze Photo databases to see what are the keywords that were added by the user as well as review many other details of metadata. I’ve used PowerPhotos to mange Photos databases of several terabytes that required a NAS. Source: over 2 years ago