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JudgeReddit

Looking for a program to find and delete duplicate photos...

I have thousands of photos from years of taking photos. Unfortunately I rarely organized them properly before this year. I just uploaded them to the computer and moved on. This has resulted in some folders being copied multiple times, some merged and some not merged, etc.

Is there a program that can scan a folder of photos (not by name - name searching won't solve my problem) and identify duplicates for me?

Thanks

Posted Dec 2, 2009, 5:46 PM UTC

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bio_geek•

Picasa may work well here:

http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=11484

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JudgeRedditOP•

This is amazing! I haven't tried using it to get duplicates yet, but just in terms of finding the photos across my drive and organizing it has been a godsend.

Thanks for the suggestion

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skwigger•

I have the same problem. I forget to delete the pictures of the card, and wind up copying the pics from the camera multiple times.

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JudgeRedditOP•

Exactly. Trying to get a handle on this mess is all but impossible now. A program to identify duplicates would be a huge help.

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thilehoffer•

This program may help http://www.scootersoftware.com/

http://www.easyduplicatefinder.com/

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Saikou•

Auslogics Duplicate File Finder is your friend in this case. It is free, and simply works. I used it to fix dups on a huge archive of vacation and family photos, and it was fast and easy to use. It will find all the dups, let you select one from each group to delete (or move to recycle bin) and it even finds multiple dups and lets you invert the selection to get rid of those. As with any program that deletes files like this, make sure you understand how it deletes files. In other words, this program will find all the dups and list them. Those marked for deletion with the check marks will be deleted when you tell the program to do so. If you don't understand this, I recommend that you intentionally make a nested folder with some dups in it on purpose, and run the program on that folder first. Practice using the program on that safe folder first, just to get it straight in your mind what is happening when you make selections/invert selections, and delete the dups. I am being overly cautious here, but I don't know how computer literate you are, so I am being extra safe here, just in case.

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Saikou•

I forgot to mention, Auslogics Duplicate File Finder will also filter by content search, meaning it looks at more than just the name and modified date to find dups. My recommdation is to use the default name/date search first, since that will find most of the dups right away in most cases. Then, when you'r computer is idle or even overnight, let it do the content's search, which is slower of course. (It really depends on how fast your rig is and how large your archive is.) The program will move to the recycle bin the files you tell it to delete. As such, increase the size of your recycle bin. That way, if you want to make a backup of your files that you finally delete, it is easy to do. You could also just set the recycle bin to delete right way, but that is up to you. Defrag the drive after run the program, depending on how many files were deleted.

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