Smart Organize
When you select Find Duplicates in Smart Organize and choose make sub-folder, where is it? After choosing a couple of duplicates I want to put them in a sub-folder, instead of removing, which I select but I cannot find the sub-folder.
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It should be in the same folder that holds the photos. If you're searching multiple folders, each one should have a new subfolder if there are rejected photos found in them.
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The folders will be placed in whichever folder you were working in when you started the Smart Organize search.
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I was not clear enough. I was using a smart album which has photos in multiple locations. I am trying to figure all of this out. I have photos from a couple of years that need organizing and cleaning up. I started with a Smart Album which required a Catalog. I am not sure if there is an easier way of doing this. As I understand this, looking for duplicate photos only works with a single folder whereas a smart album will include multiple folders. So this means before I do a sub-folder I need to know where the original folder is first. What a challenge cleaning up a mess but the photos are important. Any better ideas? Should I not use a Smart Album?
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I'm going to retract my previous statement. Sorry for any confusion.
I've been playing with this. I have a folder I keep for doing testing. It contains several nested sub-folders. I selected a random selection of photos with multiples taken at the same time and place for the test. I gave them all the Keyword "test" so I could create a Smart Album to look for them which I did and which it did. It found all the photos I'd marked as expected.
I performed the Smart Organize and it grouped the related photos from the Smart Album appropriately. When I moved each collection of photos into new subfolders those subfolders were all created in the folder where that group of images was found. You can where the 3 new subfolders were placed in the screenshot below.
Here is the Smart Organize results after searching the Smart Album.
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Apparently, there is no way using multiple folders to find duplicates which is where I have my duplicates. So, using a Smart Album, I just tried Reject Marked which puts an x on the photo and then I can filter them out and make a folder, and later decide what to do with the duplicates.
Still open to any better ideas.
Thanks again.
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This is interesting. I duplicated 3 photos into a new sub-folder inside my alpha (test) folder. The Smart Organize found 4 sets of 2 duplicate photos from those 3 copies. 1 set it would not let me put into a new sub-folder. The other 3 I could. I don't know why it won't let me move that 1 set.
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Smart Organize was acting kind of squirrely for me, too. I will try your idea tomorrow which I will test auto mark and see if it is reliable. Hopefully it will x the duplicates for me. If not I will do the reject.
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