Managing Memories

Having been across the country three times in the past three years (plus drives to Florida (and back) and Virginia (and back)), I have a lot of memories! The ones in my brain are GREAT, but sometimes they need help from all my iPhotos (even though the program in OS X Yosemite is now "Photos").

Which gets us to this blog: How do I keep my Photos-database clean, and not wind up with multiple pictures of the same Claude Monet Water Lilies painting?

Feb 14, 2014




May 8, 2015





Dec 3, 2015




Of course they are all beautiful, but lets get real and clean this up.

iPhoto had a "Map" button - click it, and the display changes to a map (zoomed-out to the appropriate geographic level) that had push-pins for every location of the photos in your database. It was kind-of intelligent - it consolidated nearby pins into a single pin, so the map was not full-of-pins. Unfortunately there was no way to tell if a pin represented a single location, or multiple locations (as you zoomed-in, the single pin would dissolve into multiple pins). Unfortunately, OS X Yosemite no longer has that feature. But don't despair - click in the Search box in the upper right:



and type "Boston".



All the places associated with Boston (including Boston, VA, Boston, KY, and Boston, GA, if I had taken pictures there) become listed. I have 158 pictures at/near the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Select the MFA, and all the occasions of me visiting the MFA (3 times) appear, with their photos! From this viewing, it is now easy to compare images, and delete those you do not want.

Off to work in the woods!