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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. Press command-delete to delete the photos (pressing delete without the command key will only remove the photos from the album, without deleting them from the library itself)

  3. 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, select File > Show Recently Deleted, then click the “Delete All” button to delete the photos permanently.
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