My beautiful bride accidentally created duplicates of every photo in her iPhoto Library; her machine was running Mountain Lion (10.8.x). She was unable to undo the madness and a week went by before I was able to take a look at it. Bragging that our Time Machine backup would be able to bring us back in time, failed; when I had iPhoto launched, I tried to enter Time Machine, but every time I tried this, a new window called “Desktop” would appear and then the Time Machine would be opened based on the Desktop.<\/p>\n
This was no good. I then tried to recover her entire iPhoto Library from her backed up Pictures folder, but that too failed over permissions.
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Enter Terminal.app and rsync. To get around the strange permissions issue, I synced the iPhoto Library using sudo and rsync:<\/p>\n
sudo rsync --archive --stats --human-readable --progress \/Volumes\/Time\\ Machine\\ Backups\/Backups.backupdb\/Tina\\'s\\ MacBook\\ Pro\/2014-03-07-081254\/Macintosh\\ HD\/Users\/christinaschwie\/Pictures ~\/<\/pre>\nIt worked like a champ and she’s happily using her iPhoto Library without duplicates again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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