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    Duplicate Pictures

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by PopRoxMimo3, Jan 18, 2011.

  1. PopRoxMimo3

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    i recovered some pictures from an old hard drive but it seems there are duplicates of some pictures. is there any software that finds all duplicate pictures and lets me choose which to keep/delete?
    Running Windows 7.
     
    PopRoxMimo3, Jan 18, 2011
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    Trottel Notebook Virtuoso

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    Well you can order pictures by file size and duplicates will be next to each other for easy deleting.
     
    Trottel, Jan 18, 2011
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    there is about 30 folders and some have folders within the folders with more duplicates. i dont thnk i can hunt for all the pics and then put them nto one folder. kind of defeats the purpose of beng in dated folders
     
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    Pretty sure that Google's Picasa has some decent deduplication options
     
    Pitabred, Jan 18, 2011
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    ScuderiaConchiglia NBR Vaio Team Curmudgeon

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    I used to have an app that would find duplicate images based on some pretty interesting algorithm. It would even find duplicates of the same image that were two different sizes like an 800x600 and the same image at 400x300. I'll dig around and see if I can find it again. It had a slider that you used to control how close a match it had to be to be considered a duplicate. The interface then showed you the two (or more) dups side by side and let you choose which one to delete or ignore. You pointed it to a "master" directory and it created an index of sorts for that directory. Then you pointed it to a second directory to compare against. It did a great job.

    Gary

    Isn't that a generic duplicate file finder, not an duplicate image finder? It only finds exact duplicates, right?

    Gary

    Found it! It is still a freebie. I used it five or six years ago. Highly recommended.

    Dup Detector - duplicate image finder

    Gary
     
    ScuderiaConchiglia, Jan 18, 2011
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    Yes, it's a generic file duplicate finder. and of course, two files with the slightest difference are no longer duplicates :)

    Michael
     
    michael_recycled, Jan 19, 2011
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    I have no idea how to use it.
     
    PopRoxMimo3, Jan 24, 2011
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    PopRoxMimo3, Jan 24, 2011
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