Finding duplicate photos in macOS Photos APP

by Poster Apr 22, 2025 3

Displayed as Looking for duplicate items... Photos scans the gallery for duplicates. It will continue scanning when you are not using the APP and your Mac is powered up. How to understand this sentence? Should I turn off photos and turn on sleep mode with my mac plugged in? Or open the Photo APP and don't play on the computer? I can't understand this system prompt. There are 300 G photos and videos in my photo library. Obviously, I can see some double or triple duplicate photos, but this photo APP does not automatically find duplicate items. Everyone programmer brother can help to look at the file of looking for duplicate items in the mac photo package content, can you run it manually??

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Anonymous114 Apr 22, 2025

My advice is: Let's go. Even if he finished his search, it might not be 100% correct. Anyway, I didn't sort out the 300GB of data myself, so it wasn't short of this time. Let the system run by itself. If you have leisure, sort it out manually and relax.

Anonymous14299 Apr 22, 2025

Turn off the photo app, connect it to the power supply, and sleep. I don't know if it will scan in this case, but I don't think so. All I know for sure is, turn off the photos app, plug in to the power, don't sleep, don't use the computer. This situation will scan: people, journey, memories. Because after I didn't use the computer for ten minutes, I saw that a process belonging to photos started to obviously use the cpu, about 15%, and when I touched the computer mouse/trackpad/keyboard, the process stopped immediately. I think scanning duplicate photos should also be done in this case.

Anonymous4336 Apr 23, 2025

Turn off hibernation, open the app, and leave it still when you sleep at night.