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This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Dealing with Duplicates
When importing images from a CD or a folder on your computer, or even from a camera where you left the original images on the card after a prior import, you run the risk of importing photographs you’ve already imported. Luckily, Photos has a built-in duplicate detector. If you try importing a photograph that you have imported before, the Duplicate Photo warning appears.
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The Duplicate Photo warning gives you the option of reimporting the photograph, which adds another copy of it to your library, or not importing it, which causes Photos to skip that single photo and move on to the next. If you check the Apply to All Duplicates check box, Photos either imports all duplicates or doesn’t import all duplicates in the current import session, depending on whether you click Import or Don’t Import.
>>>Go Further: Finding Where Your Photos Are Stored
When you import an image into Photos, by default it is copied to a specific file on your Mac. As mentioned earlier in this chapter, this file is called Photos Library by default; it is actually a single database containing all your imported photos organized into a series of folders. These folders preserve the original imported files and also any edits you make.
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The advantage of this centralized Photos Library file on your computer is twofold:
- It allows you to easily back up your entire photo library by simply copying the Photos Library file to an external hard drive.
- It ensures that all the photos on your computer are in one easy-to-find place and eliminates clusters of folders of pictures from being scattered around your Mac.
By default the Photos Library file is stored in your User, Pictures folder on your Mac. However you can move it anywhere you like. In case you forget where you have moved the folder, Apple has built in a handy find tool into Photos so you always know where it is.
Select Photos, Preferences.
On the General tab of the Preferences, click the Show in Finder button. A Finder window opens with your Photos Library file selected.
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