Folio Refresh · Photos, Lightroom and Capture One
Clear duplicates from Photos, Lightroom Classic and Capture One, not just folders
Free to try: scan, review and clean your first 100 photos. Then $14.99 once, no subscription. For macOS 15 or later, Apple silicon and Intel.
Or get it from the Mac App Store: the same free 100 photos, the same price.
The problem
Most duplicate finders only look at folders. But many people's photos live in Apple Photos, and many photographers' live in a Lightroom Classic or Capture One catalog, where deleting files behind the app's back breaks the catalog.
How Folio Refresh solves it
- Folders and drives. Copies you approve go to the Trash, where you can put any of them back.
- Your Photos library. Copies you approve go into an album called “Folio Refresh Review”, to look over and delete in Photos. Folio Refresh deletes nothing there.
- Lightroom Classic. Duplicates are marked Rejected, as if you had pressed X, ready for Lightroom's own Delete Rejected Photos.
- Capture One. Duplicates are given the Red colour tag, ready to filter and delete in Capture One.
- Catalogs are handled with care. A catalog is only changed while its app is closed, it is backed up first into a “Folio Refresh Backups” folder beside it, and every marking can be undone from Folio Refresh.
- What is never marked. A favourite in Photos, a photo with a virtual copy in Lightroom, or a second variant in Capture One.
In detail
- Lightroom Classic in detail: Lightroom's own Duplicates view, where it stops, similar photos, and what Folio Refresh changes in a catalog and never changes.
- Capture One in detail: What Capture One's importer catches, what it doesn't, and what Folio Refresh changes in a catalog and never changes.
Try it on your own photos.
Free to try: scan, review and clean your first 100 photos. Then $14.99 once, no subscription. For macOS 15 or later, Apple silicon and Intel.
Or get it from the Mac App Store: the same free 100 photos, the same price.