iPhone 101: Keep recent photos, eliminate dupes

Since it's so much fun to view photos on an iPhone, you'll want to sync your iPhoto library. However, even an 8GB phone can fill up quickly. Here's a tip for displaying your most recent photos and eliminating duplicates.

In iPhoto, create a smart album that finds your most recent photos:

1. From the File menu, select "New Smart Album..."
2. Set the 1st condition to "Date," and the 2nd to "Within the last...." I've selected 14 days.

Next, connect your iPhone and launch iTunes. Click the "Photos" tab and opt to sync only our smart album. Done! Now you've got a dynamically populated (and auto-purging) album that displays your most recent shots.

You may have sent photos taken with your iPhone to iPhoto. For some reason, iPhoto won't delete those photos after synchronization. Since our smart album found them, it's safe to nix their space-hogging counterparts and keep "Camera Roll" empty.
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