[alwann]

Been purging photos. Anybody have a good program to recommend for finding and deleting duplicate photos? I saw one called Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro, but Malware flagged the link. There are a thousand photos, more or less, filling up my drives. Clicking on the duplicates to delete one at a time is mind numbing.

[onfire]

I use alldup which isn't specifically for photos but works for any duplicate files.

alldup.info

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

CCleaner has a duplicate file finder tool.

[alwann]

Thanks, so far. I'm playing around with both of the programs but still looking for an easy way out. For example, directing the search to just find duplicate .jpg files. Having fun, I must say.

[villagetinker]

If you are using windows, you should be able to use file finder, in the search area, use *.jpg, then you should see a list of all the jpg files in order, so duplicates will be next to each other.

[Freehiker]

Are they on your PC or on your mobile devices?

I use two different programs to keep my collections clean. The scanning time varies on multiple factors, but on average I scan once a month and it takes 20 mins or so to scan about 1.6 million photos.

[Arctic Fox]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

CCleaner has a duplicate file finder tool.

I rate CCleaner very highly, but this would just show the OP the duplicates, then he would still have to delete them one at a time

[Freehiker]

Originally Posted by villagetinker

If you are using windows, you should be able to use file finder, in the search area, use *.jpg, then you should see a list of all the jpg files in order, so duplicates will be next to each other.

Not if the same picture has different file names.

Image duplicate software scans the actual image to see if it’s a duplicate of another in the same scan batch.

[villagetinker]

Originally Posted by Freehiker

Not if the same picture has different file names.

Image duplicate software scans the actual image to see if it’s a duplicate of another in the same scan batch.

This is interesting as my camera will take multiple photos if I hold down the trigger, so the photos would be very similar, I wonder how this actually works.

[Freehiker]

Originally Posted by villagetinker

This is interesting as my camera will take multiple photos if I hold down the trigger, so the photos would be very similar, I wonder how this actually works.

There’s a margin of error built in. Anything that falls within a certain percentage of similarity will be flagged and allow the user to inspect them prior to deletion. It’s pretty interesting software and surprisingly accurate.

[Rainger99]

Originally Posted by Freehiker

I scan once a month and it takes 20 mins or so to scan about 1.6 million photos.

1.6 million photos?
That would be about 64 photos for every day I have been alive!