I've rebuilt, exported and imported to a new one, cleared photo stream,
turned all devices off and on (etc, every possible permutation). I've
now removed all photos from the cloud and my Photo library, and all
devices as I can't stand seeing wedding photos from 2000 popping up
again.
And still when I plug the phone in, it shows me photos from 7, 9, 12
[insert random number] years ago as new and wants to import them.
It's something to do with optimisation of space. It seems that when it
downloads the full sized version of a photo to a device, it forgets I
already have it. But then it doesn't clear caches or something as the
same photos come ronud and round. And to make it worse, they are
slightly different sizes as it seems to have added metadata or resized
them slightly so duplicate detection is very difficult. I'm very slowly
going through hundreds of folders removing them by visual comparison.
Doing one or two a day, I reckon I might have finished just after I die.
Not keen to try Photos again...;) I'd be very happy if it would just
stop opening every SD card, every device to import photos that are
either not there or I already 11 copies of!
On 21 Sep 2015, at 8:48, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote:
It does detect duplicates for me though, perhaps try rebuilding your
library?
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