By removing these unnecessary files, you can gain back some of your storage space that could be used for other data or something more important. This can be particularly true with large media files, since often users will duplicate a video file, project, or PSD file before modifying it further. Sit back and relax till the script complete its job.If you’ve been using the same Mac for a while, it may have accumulated a large collection of files that could potentially include duplicates that use up valuable storage space on your device.

Run 'osascript duplicate-photo-finder.scpt' Go to the folder in Terminal where you downloaded this script Open Photos app and select the photos you want to find duplicates in it. Then it iterate through the list again to group the similar named photos and place them in an Album in 'Duplicate Photos' folder How to use: First it iterate all the selected Photos, then sort them using quick sort algorithm to have similar names together It uses a smart algorithm for faster processing. So be careful while deleting them) How to verify:Ĭopy a name of the photo from duplicate album and search, you will see more than one copy of same photo.Īlso you can verify it by creating a duplicate photo, select recently duplicated photos, run this script Current Implementation

(Though it’s very rare, album may contain photos which may not be duplicate. Once it's added in the album you can go through the Album and delete them by pressing CMD+DELETE to delete permanently. so this tool will search all the photos with same name and size then create Album with current date (mm/dd/yy) and put them in Duplicates Photos folder. Most(not all) of the duplicate photos will have same name with same size. So wrote this small tool to delete those duplicate photos.

Apple doesn't provide a tool to identity them. I was having around 50k photos in my Mac with lots of Duplicates in it.

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