I did have a problem with Tidy up because it turned up so many duplicates and I didn't have a clue as to which to keep and which to dump. I already looked at Tidy Up and will look at the two applications you mentioned, chas. That will leave me with a "final" mighty chore of winnowing out the duplicates in iPhoto, in My Documents Folder and in a variety of other folders buried in strange little corners within my User Folder. Once I take that leap of faith, I will start using the larger Maxtor 500GB internal drive as my main drive and back up to my external 500GB FW drive as I've been doing all along. It's my plan to double check my alternate drives tomorrow and then erase and clone my current drive onto them. Once I have that issue out of the way, I'll have no problem erasing the other two drives and cloning them as backups. Ok, chas_m, the few picture files that aren't opening in iPhoto are listed as Photoshop Format and it says "Photoshop 3.0 is required to open this file." I need to know if by installing either CS2, which I already had but haven't installed on the MacPro or Photoshop Elements 3 which came with the Wacom Graphire Tablet I just bought, I can recover these "mystery" picture files. Oh yes, I'm pretty sure I already copied most of it onto my current hard drive, anyway. How much of that "stuff" do I really need. Files that date back to my 8500/8600/Beige G3MT and to my G5. Thinking about what I've saved in my Document Folder, it pretty much represents the same kind of "stuff" that I have said I'm going to get rid of. The files on the drives I've been afraid to erase are, I'm pretty sure, copied over to the primary Apple drive on my MacPro. Which brings me to my present computer dilemma. (I wonder if this rings a bell with anyone else? )Īnyway, as I read the article I decided I was going to start a wholesale dumping of all the magazines and as much of the other junk I've accumulated. As a result, our second bedroom, the room that I've setup as my "den" and "computer room" is stacked with 'stuff." I have saved, probably hundreds of magazines, because there was an article or two that I thought, "someday I'm going to go back and read this tip because I'm going to need it. I just read an article in Time Magazine about OCD and one of the categories was "HOARDING." I think I fit this description. Please note that Duplicate Annihilator (such a violent name!) HAS been updated to work with the new iPhoto 7 (part of iLife 08) - iPhoto Diet works with iPhoto version 6.x and earlier. Be sure to look at the file sizes of the duplicates - you don't want to get rid of the high-res image in favour of a lowly thumbnail! Once a backup has been made, use a third-party program like iPhoto Diet () or Duplicate Annihilator () to find and eliminate the dupes. If they are corrupted, they're corrupted and there's nowt you can do about it. Use Preview or some other tool to convert the rejected photos into JPEGs, and then iPhoto will accept them. Any that do not want to go into iPhoto are probably EITHER corrupted JPEG files or they are in a format iPhoto does not support, like PICT (wow, that's old!). Don't worry about duplicates right now.Ģ. Here is a link to the thread: Įdited 1 time(s). Now if I can only find an equally simple solution to sort out my hard drives… If anyone can tell me how to work my way out of this mess I'd be very grateful.Īs far as the solution that I used with Entourage, it seems to have done the trick and it really was quite simple, once I realized that I wouldn't lose any data. This is why I've been afraid to erase either of the previously backed up drives and to use them to do a backup of my current main hard drive. The big problem, and the reason I haven't been backing up, is that while I have imported most of my picture files from my two previous hard drives (one internal and one external FW) some of the pictures aren't compatible with iPhoto, so I see a file, but it says "Photoshop 3.0 is required to open this file." I'm afraid that I'll lose some valuable pictures and on top of that I have probably hundreds of duplicates from importing pictures from the two alternate drives.Įverything is such a mess and I don't know how to straighten it out. In most cases I did a fresh install of the latest version of the non-Apple applications I normally use. After that was completed I was told to move things over by drag and drop. The first method I used was to migrate everything from the G5, but that led to a number of problems which ended up having to be solved by an erase and a clean install on the MacPro's original hard drive. Since I moved from my G5 to my new MacPro there have been a number of issues stemming from my first step in making the leap. I have always backed up religiously, but I'm faced with a quandary. Buried in an earlier thread, is the following from him: It would be nice to help our forum member GeneL.
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