As a Mac user, you'll find full of duplicate photos on a Mac, these photos with different names are stored in different files. Today's article is about "how to find and delete photos similar or duplicate on a Mac?" As the functions of the system, when you upload your photos to your Mac or take screen shots, Mac automatically creates duplicate copies without any reason. These similar or duplicate photos day after day takes up a lot of space Mac, you may spend more money to buy a bigger disk. Here are some tips to help you find and delete duplicate photos or similar on the Mac.
How to manually find and remove similar or duplicate photos on a Mac?
This is the method by using the Finder's "smart folders" to manage your photos. You can follow the steps below.
1. Open a Finder window
2. Go to the Apple menu → File → New Smart Folder
3. Click the plus button in the upper right corner
4. Select the Search Parameters: → type name, a match image → (or the search image)
5. Select the picture format: all (including JPEG TIFF GIF PNG BPM)
6. View and select the photos similar or duplicate (you can press the Command key to select multiple)
7. Click the right mouse button, then move it to the Recycle Bin
Alternatively, you can use iCloud to download all the photos, and then delete all duplicate photos will upload it back to the Mac.
1. Start the browser on your Mac
2. Log on personal Apple ID iCloud.com
3. Then go to the "Photos" tab, then select "All Photos"
4. In view pictures icon while holding down the Command key and click to start one by one the same or very similar images
5. When finished, press the Delete button at the top
6. Remove all old photos, then re-upload photo
Above two methods for handling small amount of photos. You will find this process more than 500 photos grueling. There is no easier way to find and delete duplicate photos or similar?
How to easily find and remove duplicate or similar photo on my Mac?
Since the photo on the Mac manually find and delete duplicate similar or very annoying, why not use a third-party program to remove duplicate photos complete this work? MacBooster release and optimize it with a Mac memory function. It is easy to use MacBooster of:
1: Download and open it MacBooster
2: Go to the photo scanner module
3: Select the photo and compare to find similar photos
4: Select Delete similar or duplicate
