duplicate photos fixer pro shows as malaware

For example, all the black and white pics from my daughters wedding were marked as dups of the originals, so I had to go back and uncheck them after the “Auto Mark” process ran. I tried the “Auto Mark” function and it also worked as advertised, but some of the pictures were not really dups, just very similar. It says they will stay there for a month before permanently deleting them. And I found that the ‘deleted’ pictures are not really deleted since they end up in the Photos application “Recently Deleted” trash can under “Library”. So far, I haven’t needed to restore anything. Just because I am a belt and suspenders type guy. I did export the Duplicate Marked Photo’s to an external drive before deleting them from the Photo’s library. The app worked for me as advertised and I didn’t need to hit the extra keys that were referenced in several other reviews. I used this app on a 2015 vintage macbook pro using High Sierra.

Overall a great product with room for improvement. It didn't answer my questions specifically, but offered canned answers to some questions and skipped the rest. It seems like it was operated by a bot, although it denied this was true. A final word, the customer service Chat feature is worthless. Even with 5,700 photos, it didn't take that long. However, once the photos were in the Duplicate Marked Photos folder, it was easy to scroll through and find the hearts, and then move them out of the folder. Also, it doesn't discriminate 'favorites,' and the 'hearts' on favorite photos didn't show up in the comparison screen. I didn't, but I was so overwhelmed by the quantity of pictures, I rarely ever looked at them, so I was ok with that. The only think to be wary of, is that close matches are counted as duplicates, so I recommend adjusting the automatic settings to the higher end of the spectrum if this is a concern for you. I was able to eliminate 5,700 duplicates. The Photos/cloud combo is a menace which dumps multiple duplicate photos on all my devices.

Duplicate photos fixer pro shows as malaware