Mice & Clowns

  

Over the last few weeks I have been working on our photo album.  I used to use iPhoto, but on a recent update I was locked out of that app.  Piers was able to salvage the files so they could be moved into Photos, but each year had to be moved individually.  We have taken a LOT of photos over the years, so this process took days to do.  Once they had been successfully moved, it became obvious that for some reason (and the no duplicates were selected on the move), but not with all photos, there were duplicates, sometimes five copies of the one photo.  It has also done that face recognition thing and made new photos of all the faces, even background ones.  It didn't just make little thumbnails of these faces, they are now new photos, and again duplicates and multiples of all the faces.  I have now had to work my way through and basically select every second photo to delete.  This is a very slow process as it takes hours for the computer to delete the photos, and if the computer goes to sleep, the process has to start again for that selection.  As you can tell, its been a long drawn out process and I am over it, but not finished yet.
On the up side, I have been looking over all our photos from the years.  There have been a lot of cake decorating ones.  These two were from when Mitchell was at primary school.  The little mice are cut up lollies on coconut balls and were sold at one of the fetes.  The clowns on chocolate cupcakes were for Mitchell's fifth or sixth birthday.