DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME

For an app that professes to be the #1 rated of its kind (aren’t they all?), this app is completely worthless. Not only does it take FOREVER to scan a library of any size (and believe me, my Photos library is not that massive), but AFTER the duplicates are found, it requires about a 12-step process “Click here, now do this, now click that, now open this, now highlight these…” to finally get rid of your duplicate photos. (Thanks to Apple’s “Photos” app for immediately adding the deleted photos right back, however.) The sore spot with me, however, is that I have Finder open on my desktop and I’m LOOKING at two photos that are the same…I know they are because I *made* them the same. Only difference: The copy of the original photo has an underscore at the end of the filename (i.e. picture003.jpg AND picture003_.jpg) They are identical photos, yet this app says “No duplicates found!” Not only are the duplicates that I purposely created in this folder, but I’m also looking at many other duplicates in the same folder. Different filenames, sizes, and resolutions, but identical photos. Even with the app Preferences set to include all these differences, the program continues to congratulate me for “No duplicates found!”

When I’m sitting here looking at duplicate photos, and your software tries to congratulate me on “No duplicates found!” that means it’s time for this app to hit the Trash, and me to either do the work painstakingly by hand, or find a developer that actually knows how to write a program that actually does what it professes to.

My advice: Stay away from this gawky, unseemly, non-functional falsehood that does nothing more than scan your folder then nag you to “Upgrade to PRO!” every 5 seconds. This app is free…and isn’t even worth THAT price.

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