# Sorting out iPhoto **URL:** \ **Category:** Other Software & Development\ **Created:** [December 19, 2007, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/sorting-out-iphoto/2919 "2007-12-19T17:30:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![KB](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@KB](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/KB)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/sorting-out-iphoto/2919/1 "2007-12-19T17:30:31Z")
Hi, Just wondering if anybody has any tips on sorting out an iPhoto library. I have iPhoto '08, and over the years I have not only accumulated loads of photos but also loads of duplicates. With many photos I export them at a reduced size and then send them to our families (pictures of the kids etc). At some point during backing up, upgrading, making sure that I don’t lose anything etc, I seem to have imported into the library all of the smaller sized duplicates of images. This means that I have, for instance, about 7 copies of every photo I took in Africa five years ago and about 5 copies of every photo I took in Greece a few years back. In each case, one set of copies is the full resolution set, and the others are reduced resolution sets. Right now, I want to go through and prune everything so that I just have one copy of every photo and delete all of the reduced quality copies (or same quality copies). Is there an easy way of doing this. For instance: is there a way to sort images in iPhoto by file size or dimensions? (I don’t think there is…) Is there any way of it finding duplicates? Are there any third-party utilities that can help. It is going to take me bloomin’ ages to do this manually… Thanks and all the best, Keith --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/sorting-out-iphoto/2919)._