Hi Bill. On the App store there are many duplicate finders, some free. I have not found one that is better or worse than the others.
That being said, I use Chronosync for a few different reasons. One- I can make a Master folder if my assorted files. Music, photos, paintings, word docs, etc. It allows me to do a merge, so I can specify which (latest) files to keep. This helps me when I have a jpg, tif and psd. I used a duo finder app and it would up messing up a couple different folders, deleting the oldest of each file among a few different folders (my bad for not paying closer attention). I still have one each of the three or more different files, but in and on an assortment of different folders and drives. I can schedule a sync or backup. It does a but more, sync folders and drives. Make a clone of a drive, and so on. But just for a simple duplicate skim down, a free one should work. Not too sure on this part, but doesn't the new photo app open and sort older iphoto libraries? I am pretty sure I did an update in my wife's iPhoto libraries when I moved her photos from her MBP to her iMac and newer MBP. Good Luck. Mark On Tue, Jan 5, 2021, 5:57 PM William Spencer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there: How can I find duplicate files? I think I have several boatloads > of photos that are dupes of each other, in various folders. There’s also > the old iPhoto stuff that I can’t navigate anymore anyway, and I think > there are dupes in there as well. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks in > advance! > > *************** > > Bill Spencer in Maryland > Mac Mini 2.6 GHz i5/11.1 > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a > group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iMac Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/imaclist/EEEC6EC8-D9B6-4A2D-8D8F-472998F50338%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/imaclist/EEEC6EC8-D9B6-4A2D-8D8F-472998F50338%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/imaclist/CAMbnKZSEkXs8nR%2BqKmUN2vjqZpZs53XjaRFxW8shn8DEtFs8%3Dg%40mail.gmail.com.
