Comments on: iPhoto – Removing redundant originals

By: Richard Holt

Richard Holt — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:49:21 +0000

I have a 75Gb iPhoto library, which I want to slim down to backup. The originals folder inside the package alone is 58Gb.

I ran this script, it took ages and didn’t work:

5076932815 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile (attempting to process anyway) start of central directory not found; zipfile corrupt. (please check that you have transferred or created the zipfile in the appropriate BINARY mode and that you have compiled UnZip properly)

test of /Users/richard/Pictures/iPhoto-Redundant-Originals-2010-11-11-1814.zip FAILED
zip error: Zip file invalid, could not spawn unzip, or wrong unzip (original files unmodified)

By: Hans

Hans — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:19:01 +0000

What if the script where to check if there’s an original and a modified version of a file. And if so, have the script overwrite the original file with the modified version, after which the modified version can be deleted.

That might sort the problem of the edit function not working anymore.

By: Hans

Hans — Sun, 24 May 2009 11:18:31 +0000

This worked for me on iPhoto ’08 and OS X 10.5.7.

Thanks for this scipt, it cleared out a lot of disk space, and so far my iPhoto library seems stable. I wish Apple would include an option like this in iPhoto though.

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