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Remove duplicate photos from Aperture
Authored by: bagelturf on Dec 27, '07 08:57:31AM
This trick will work, but it loses all the adjustments, keywords, etc. There are a couple of other ways:

1. Since you created the duplicates by importing, remove them the same way. Each import creates an Import Session and you can filter on those. Click the filter button in the browser and select Import Session, then select each one you want to delete and delete those masters.

2. If you have projects with double or triples, you can display the images in the browser, sort them by date and then pull a selection rectangle around just one or two columns of images to select the dupes. Then delete.

See here for details and illustration: http://www.bagelturf.com/aparticles/workflow/workdup/index.html

Aperture's behavior is understandable. How would it be able to judge duplicates well enough to be able to reject them with 100% accuracy? How would you override this to import the same image more than once if you really wanted it? It boils down to Aperture being a librarian, not a cataloging application, and the fact that referenced masters are part of the library, not something external to Aperture to keep track of.




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Remove duplicate photos from Aperture
Authored by: yrret on Dec 28, '07 02:30:23PM

Thanks for the reply bagelturf. You have a great site with some great tips there I have to say. I am glad I posted this just so I ended up finding it!
I especially like the iView to Aperture move stories. If I had followed that I would probably not have ended up in this predicament.

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