Apple Photos Wants to Re-Download iCloud Originals After Removing Duplicates

[purdnost]

I used MacPaw’s Gemini 2 software to remove about 10k duplicate photos and videos from my Apple Photos library. All originals are in the cloud, but I enabled the setting to store all originals locally as well.

So, I downloaded all originals, ran the duplicate scan, deleted about 10k files, then after re-opening Apple Photos, it’s in the process of re-syncing with what’s in the cloud by downloading all the duplicates I just deleted.

Is there anything I can do to tell iCloud that I want it to sync with my current library as it is, instead of my library syncing with iCloud?

 

[jparker402]

Purdnost, did this ever get resolved?

 

[purdnost]

I did not. I decided against using Gemini 2 in the end.

 

[jparker402]

I did not. I decided against using Gemini 2 in the end.

Sorry to be late in asking, but why did you decide against Gemini 2? And thought you already ran a duplicate check. Did you just not activate the deletion function after running it?

 

[LegacyUser12]

Lawd was hoping for a miracle cure to be had here... I'm with OP on the pain that is duplicate photos!!!