Struggles with my multiple large libraries
Looks like it is mostly successful for others but I find it getting confused as to which library it is working with and fails to find exact duplicates that are clearly right next to each other in Photos. Not sure if I can recommend for users with multiple large libraries.
On one occasion I did a duplicate search and then trashed the duplicates but it put the duplicates photo album that it created into another library than the one the duplicate photos came from. Took me hours to sort out and correct. The media browser, while in Photosweeper does not show all libraries on the computer. Adding photo libraries to the media browser creates errors in metadata.
I think that all the errors that I encountered were related to the fact that I have multiple and large photo libraries that Photosweeper had difficulty keeping segregated for some unknown reason maybe no fault of its own. Please note that I have photo libraries across a 2TB internal drive, 3 external drives 2 of which are 4bay Drobos totalling around 10 TBs adding complexity to the task.
I am still giving the app 3 stars and would say that with 99 of users with typical Photos libraries will not encounter the issues that I did.
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