From: Chris Ridd on
On 2010-07-28 19:42:53 +0100, Colin Harper said:

> A little while ago, I used DoubleTwist to copy my photos from iPhoto Library
> to an SDHC card in my Android phone. This was okay.
>
> I'd taken some photos and videos on the phone itself since, and wanted to
> copy them back into iPhoto.
>
> Without thinking, I did 'Import All' with the 'Ignore Existing' (I forget the
> name of the flag exactly) set. Horrors, all 4,000+ photos were re-imported to
> iPhoto As names like IMG001 (2) so it added gigs on to my library. I'm lucky
> I didn't copy all the photos on in the first place, not that I could have
> bought an SDHC card big enough, mind. My iPhoto library is 50 and a mumble
> bit GB.

Oops. Does it have an undo on the import, or is it easier to nuke the
iPhoto library and restore it from Time Machine pre-DoubleTwist?

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Chris