Very pleased

I want to move to a new computer by the end of the year, so this seemed like a good time to cleanup my photos. My computer says I have over 600,000 jpg files, mostly in iPhoto and Photo libraries. In the past I have tried other cleanup apps, but they were slow and did not give a clear picture of the results. PhotoSweeper is well laid out giving you a good visual display of what photos are considered duplicates. There are many options to fine tune how a duplicate is determined. I am still learning how to take advantage of all the options, but even just using the defaults I was finding duplicates within minutes of installing the software.

One suggestion, if you are expecting a lot of duplicates, work with small groups. My first try was to compre 75,000 photos. PhotoSweeper found ~2000 duplicates within about 15 minutes. It was going to take couple of hours to convince myself that I was deleting the right photo and currently there is no way to save your comparisons, if you want to take a break from reviewing duplicates. I’m sure in time I will be more comfortable just deleting the duplicates without review.

Finally, the support team has been FANTASTIC. I have emailed them a few times as I ws getting started. Their responses were right on target and extremely timely (usually less than 2 hrs and sometimes in minutes).

As I said, Very pleased.

alpatti about PhotoSweeper, v2.2.6