It’s certainly two different questions and tasks: finding and consolidating photos, and then making sure you don’t have multiple copies of the same images. How can I possibly find ALL the photos I have regardless of where they’re stored, then move or copy them into one central location for editing, storage, and backup? He already owns PhotoSweeper, an app that handles de-duplication, but he’s frustrated at having to select all the folders that contain photos in order to perform a scan and then sort through the results.
I’m finding that there are photos EVERYWHERE on these two machines-Photos library, iPhoto library, Photo Booth library, multiple file folders on dozens of different levels and in countless locations. Steve Thomas is trying to clean things up across two Macs: