M2 Mini bang up to date & iPad Air (5th Gen) not quite up to date.
I was trying to update the iPad but it reported that there wasn’t enough room for the download.
This afternoon I set to to remove as many photos as possible to the Mini (mostly grandchildren and flowers etc. there are hundreds of them!)
To speed up the process I decided to move the pix a page full at a time.
All went well.
As I knew there were bound to be dupes (several years with photos on the iPad and the mini)
I thought I would use Photo’s find duplicates mechanism to then sort them out.
Find duplicates is working well however…most of the duplicates are appearing with different file-names, in some instances where there are 2 duplicates there are 3 different file-names. Oddly one dupe will have 00 added infront of the number, but the following digits are not the same as the original, as below:-
Yes, although infrequently and not recently. FWIW, I don’t use Photos; I saw the odd filenames (00 prepended) in the Finder. I was dealing with many fewer photos (probably under a dozen) and simply deleted the duplicates.
The only time I’ve seen this was when I was using the old iCloud PhotoSync (which has since been replaced with something else).
I was on vacation in Italy. After each day’s touring, I imported all the new pictures from my camera’s memory card to my laptop, which pushed them to iCloud. When I arrived home, I (mistakenly…) imported the camera’s card to my desktop system.
iPhoto (what I was using at the time) did not realize that these were the same pictures. I ended up with two copies of everything - one from iCloud and one from my camera. With different timestamps, and neither seemed to be correct.
It was a surprisingly difficult mess to clean up. I needed to manually detect and delete the duplicates and then use my memory of the events to adjust the timestamps, because for many of the pictures, the timestamps were not correct for either time zone.
Today, I don’t use iCloud and I don’t sync photos while on vacation. I set my camera’s clock to whatever the local time is and don’t sync anything until I get home. Then I adjust the imported pictures based on the time-zone offset, knowing that the EXIF data will have local-time values for every image.
I don’t have these problems with pictures from my iPhone - they have proper timestamps (and GPS coordinates) in them. But my standalone camera has a 12x optical zoom lens, which is really useful when on vacation.
