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What are the criteria you want to use to choose which one to keep? And do they all have the same filename but with different suffixes?
Is there not a way to show the info with the thumbnail?
Adobe Bridge gives you all the info you need...
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...unfortunately there's no quick fix for your problem. But that's not the operating systems fault.
Split into batches and do manually - it could take you months though.
But that’s not the operating systems fault.
Indeed. Years of just doing things wrong. I think I'm ok going forward though. Plugging in the iPhone into the Mac allows you to import 'new items' rather than everything again...
Just need to sort out the mess from the last twenty odd years. Will try Bridge, hope the Duplicates feature can sort it, but if not, life's too short.
I also had a catastrophic HDD failure about five years ago. I used some hardcore recovery tool that got back a lot of stuff, but like also every tiny little OS tile/graphic etc...
I’m just criticising Apple fanbois 🙂
Fine. Let us know how you get on when you find one.
Is there not a way to show the info with the thumbnail?
in Photos you can bring up the info window (command + i or click the (i) button on the toolbar. It gives you all the info on the photo. it updates as you move through them. Most easily used in full screen view imo. There’s a filmstrip at the bottom of that view too.
in Finder you can just use the List view and add the info columns you need.
the Duplicates View has this description when you open it
Duplicates are classified both as exact copies that may have different metadata, as well as photos that appear to be the same, but may have unique resolutions, file formats or other slight differences.
that’s from version 8.0
if you have not imported the files to Photos yet then there are some other ways to ID duplicates.
In Windows, drag and drop works differently if you’re dragging to another directory on the same disk or to a directory on a different disk. Cut/copy and paste makes sure you get exactly what you want.
In Windows the default behaviour works differently. Drag & Drop within the same disk (or actually the same logical drive, so eg "C:" rather than "Disk 0") will default to Move, to a different drive will default to Copy. If you hold the Ctrl key it'll override this and force a Copy operation, and if you hold Shift it'll force Move (literally shifting it somewhere else😁).
Alternatively, if you D&D using the right mouse button you'll get a context menu when you Drop asking what you want to do (including a Cancel option).