Duplicate Annihilator

If you operate anything like me, then it’s likely that you’ve got a massive amount of duplicate images tucked away in your photo library.  Through benign actions, technical ineptitude, or simple hoarding, it’s actually quite easy to amass a huge amount of unnecessary files in your image library.  While Aperture is superb at managing a library, it somehow lacks any internal method to identify and root out these doppelganger images.

My desire to nuke these duplicate images lead me to Duplicate Annihilator from Bratoo Software.  Finding no software reviews on the interwebs, I decided to take a plunge in and see if it could help my workflow.

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Aperture 3 – two months later

It was borked on release, patched, patched again, and then again.  The interwebs currently show 11,900 pages mentioning “Aperture 3 problems”.  I became incredibly frustrated with the whole affair and considered jumping ship to Lightroom 3 beta in hopes of better stability.  It’s now two months later and time to examine the state of my Aperture3 exploration.

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