I know I’ve been kinda absent from doing posts like I use to do, but I’ve been a little busier that I thought with a project I’ve been putting off for some time. What is that project you say.

Finally getting around to doing cleanup and merging all my photos into one location. I didn’t think it was going to be as big a job as it has been and I”m still not really finished. To my surprise I have many copies of files all over the place on different computers, spare hard rives, flash memory, etc.

I didn’t know how I was going to deal with all the duplicate images. Even though programs like lightroom have a duplicate photo not to import option I found that even though the image looked the same in some cases, the metadata was different and that is what lightroom seems to rely on as part of its determining if a photo is a duplicate. Another problem was that after using several different applications over time each had created a preview version which is a low resolution version of and image and I had to make sure I was only importing the full resolution image instead of just the preview.

One program that I found that was some help was Duplicate Photo Fixer Pro. It did an excellent job on helping me find duplicates of my non raw images. (jpeg, png, tiff, etc). So if you have a folder full of images that you thing contain duplicates I can recommend this program. Just note that it does not work with RAW files.

After using this program I freed up almost a TB of space when you total up all the duplicate images that I removed.

Like I said earlier, I’ve been using various programs over time and what prompted me to start the cleanup is the fact that Apple’s Aperture software, which was my first real editor, will no longer work with the next release of the Mac OS (Catalina) so I needed to make sure I could access all my Aperture images in other programs before that happened.

I’m almost done and I hope to get back to editing more images, taking great fall images, and finding and showing you more interesting photography software and tools in the near future.

But as the Fall season is upon us and in some locations, the tree leaves are already at their peak, make sure to get out there as soon as you can before the season is over and get those great fall photos. It’s one of my favorite times of the year to photo.