Choosing what to keep
Auto-pick does the tedious part; you keep the final say.
The auto-pick rule
When a set is auto-picked, keep decides which copy in each set gets the KEEP badge.
| Rule | Keeps |
|---|---|
| Best overall | The default — the copy that scores best across sharpness, resolution and size |
| Sharpest / clearest | The least blurry copy |
| Highest resolution | The one with the most pixels |
| Largest file size | The biggest file — usually the least compressed |
| Newest | The most recently modified |
| Oldest | The original, when copies came later |
| Best quality | A combined judgement of sharpness, resolution and compression |
Changing the rule re-picks the keeper in every set instantly. Nothing is read from disk again.
Auto-select
Auto-select ticks every copy except the keeper, across every visible set. It is the fastest route through a large result list — and it obeys every safety rule on the next page.
Burst frames, RAW + JPEG pairs and every "related" grouping are excluded from auto-select by design. Auto-pick only ever operates on sets that really are copies of one file.
Doing it by hand
- Keep only this (mark the rest) — right-click the copy you want and everything else in that set is ticked
- Skip — leave a set entirely alone
- Click any tick box directly to override whatever the rule chose
Protected folders
Mark a folder as Protected and nothing inside it is ever ticked, by any automatic rule, in any batch. Use it for your master library, your originals, or anything a mis-click must not reach.
Manage the list under Protected folders, or right-click any photo in the results and choose Protect this folder.
Bulk select
Toolbox ▸ Bulk select… ticks copies matching a condition across the whole result list — In folder…, File type, Larger than or Older than. The keep-one rule still applies to everything it does.