4/12/2023 0 Comments Eliminate duplicates in iphoto![]() ![]() Edits and other changes to an image in one Album are reflected wherever that photo appears. ![]() There is no storage penalty for having multiple copies of an image in several Albums. Which means you can put the photo into as many Albums as you want, and each instance is actually pointing at a singular original image tucked safely way. ![]() When you are in iPhoto and add an image to an Album, all that happens is that iPhoto makes a note that the photo appears in that Album. The image itself never physically moves or changes. After that all the edits you make, all the keywords you add, all the Albums (or Collections) you move the image into are simply notations in the database record for that image. What an 'import' means, at the fundamental level, is that the DAM creates an entry in its database. With a DAM (Aperture, Lightroom, Capture One, and a couple others are also DAMs) your photo is either parked inside a hidden folder structure (iPhoto) or often moved to a visible date ordered folder structure when you 'import' your photos. IPhoto is a Digital Asset Manager (DAM) which means it is different than just nested folders. Yes, you are missing a key point about iPhoto. ![]()
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