So, if you ask me, it doesn't worth buying this utility for your computer. However, you can easily find cheaper solutions for managing your photo collections on your Mac. The built-in search tool worked perfectly and the duplicate finder operated smoothly, without slowing down the performance of other running programs.Īnother important aspect is that the app preserves the metadata of any picture you import. The app immediately fetched the images and displayed the thumbnail preview for all pictures. In my testing, I imported several pictures from Photo's records. You also have access to a built-in help guide that teaches you how to handle the program on your Mac and learn more about its capabilities. You can access the full tutorial and over 600+ more using the free 14 da. The application comes with a straightforward interface, supports drag-and-drop actions, and allows you to import photos from various sources (Photos app, iPhoto or Aperture libraries, etc.). rThis is a preview of a new Mac video tutorial now available from ScreenCastsOnline. Unlike Apple's program, this tool enables you to organize your favorite pictures into libraries, provides you with a quick and simple way to find and delete duplicated images, and so much more. And, it can seamlessly migrate old iPhoto or Aperture libraries and turn them into new Photos libraries.įinally, if you’re running an older version of macOS and using iPhoto, Fatcat Software also offers PowerPhotos predecessor, iPhoto Library Manager ($29.99), but here’s a nice touch: If you buy either one, you get a license for the other at no additional cost.PowerPhotos is a Mac utility that comes as an alternative to using Mac's Photos app for managing your image collections. Finding duplicates with PowerPhotos is easy and it works!īut wait-there’s more! It’s also got its own image browser, so you can search for photos in multiple libraries without even opening the Photos app. I’ve tried many apps that claim to find duplicate photos, but none do it as well or as easily as PowerPhotos.

Which brings me to the second great feature: Find Duplicate Photos. It took all night but PowerPhotos merged my three libraries into one! While everything looked good and worked flawlessly, I noticed I had failed to enable Eliminate Duplicates While Merging, so I ended up with a lot of duplicate photos in my monolithic, all-encompassing library. It took all night, but the next day all 65,000 photos and videos were in one library. While a single monolithic library may slow down the Photos app more than three smaller ones, I still wanted everything in one place.

The first is merging multiple Photos libraries into one. Two features make PowerPhotos a must-have, at least for me. It works in conjunction with the macOS Photos app, adding tools that help you manage and organize your photo collection, create and manage multiple libraries, and copy photos and albums from library to library while retaining their metadata, including keywords, descriptions, titles, dates, and favorite status. PowerPhotos ($29.99) was just what I needed. Then I remembered hearing Dave Hamilton mention PowerPhotos on his Mac Geek Gab podcast, raving that it offered the tools that should have been built into the Photos app… PowerPhotos to the Rescue! But I was afraid I might the ability to revert modified files to their original state, not to mention all of my carefully curated albums, star ratings, keywords, metadata, and such. New visual duplicate detection engineLibrary groups. I suppose if I were a more patient person, I could have exported the contents of the two archival libraries and imported them into the current one. Best of all, PowerPhotos 2.0 is now available There are some great new features in version 2.0: Convert your old iPhoto or Aperture library to an equivalent Photos library. You have to close the current library to open a different one, so there was no easy way to merge their contents. The bad news was, as I mentioned, Photos restricts you to a single library at a time. That way I’d only need to look in one place for any of my 62,000 photos and 3,000 videos. With larger and cheaper hard drives now plentiful (for backups), I decided I wanted to merge all of my photos from the three libraries back into a single Photos library. I Want My Single Monolithic Library Back! Unfortunately, Photos only lets you use one Photos library at a time, so while breaking up my library made backups and storage easier, it made finding a specific photo a nightmare. I ended up with three separate Photos libraries containing nearly 20 years of pictures and videos. I guess I started taking more pictures about then because I had to do it again in 2017 when the second Photos library grew to over 200GB.

At some point, I decided that my iPhoto/Photos library was too big and archived everything prior to 2014 in a second iPhoto/Photos library. I’ve been taking digital photos for nearly two decades and have managed my photo collection in Apple’s Photos (formerly iPhoto) app for most of that time.

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