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Deleting your duplicate photos

Photos does not provide a mechanism for PowerPhotos to directly delete the duplicate photos that it has found, so the final step of deletion must be performed manually. After letting PowerPhotos apply its actions to your duplicate photos, open the library in Photos. Finding the duplicate photos differs depending on which action you told PowerPhotos to apply.


Then, to delete the photos

  1. Select the photos you would like to delete (command-A will select all the photos currently being shown).
  2. Control-click one of the photos and select "Delete N Photos" from the menu that pops up. (do not select "Remove from Album", as that will only remove the photos from the album, not delete them from the library as a whole).

This will remove the photos from the library, but the photos themselves will not be deleted from your hard drive for 30 days (this is a safety feature provided by Photos to allow undoing accidental deletions). If you need to free the disk space used by these photos right away, open the "Recently Deleted" album, where you can manually delete some or all of the photos from the library permanently.

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