fast, easy to follow, but doesn’t delete the way they say it will

over 21,000 photos in my photo library. App took about 1-2 minutes to scan and find 1,531 duplicates (what I was expecting). Used the auto-select tool to automatically select which photos to delete. Followed the prompts. Basically, it created a specially marked folder in Photos to put all the duplicates. Then tells you to select them all and delete them. The problem is, photos put in a separate folder are duplicates from the library. Deleting the photos in the folder doesn’t delete the photos in the library. (I tested this by following the steps exactly then running the duplicate finder again….it came back with 1,531 duplicates…even though it should be 0). I ran it all again, but changing the method to delete. Instead, once the duplicates were in their own folder- I selected all of them, marked them as favorites. Then deleted the duplicates folder. Then went to “favorites” where all my now duplicates were, selected all, right clicked to delete all. Then emptied the “recently deleted” folder. Ran the app again, came back with 0 duplicates. This worked well because I don’t mark photos as “favorites” so I didn’t delete any photos inadvertantly. Good free app with only one hiccup that I figured out in 5 minutes. Pleased.

raves about quality of free applications, usually about Photos Duplicate Cleaner