Practical, tested guides from the project that started PictureAttic — no fluff, written from doing it for real on nearly half a million photos.
Why duplicates pile up, the crucial difference between exact copies and look-alike shots, and the safe way to remove only true duplicates — with a report proving nothing unique was lost.
Read the guide →Why file dates go wrong after copying and how EXIF capture dates fix it, a folder scheme that stays sane, de-duplicating overlapping backups — and doing it all privately on your own computer.
Read the guide →Why a Takeout export arrives as dozens of zips, albums duplicated across year folders and stray JSON — and how to fold it into one clean library sorted by date and camera.
Read the guide →How to get your photos out of iCloud, why the download is a jumble of HEIC files and duplicates, and how to fold them into one library sorted by date and camera.
Read the guide →Why copied and downloaded photos lose their real date, how EXIF “date taken” works, and how to sort thousands of photos into the right year automatically.
Read the guide →The reliable ways to copy photos and videos off an iPhone or Android — and how to keep them as one organized, de-duplicated library instead of a dumping ground.
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