Find & Delete identical PICTURES ??

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Hi all..

I have a directory where I have thousands of pictures. Unfortunately,
somehow, many of the pictures are exactly the same -- except they have
different filenames!

I'm desperately looking for a program that will automatically figure out
which files (i.e. pictures) are exactly the same and delete the duplicates
for me... Is there such a program?

PLEASE help.. I'll be here the rest of my life trying to do this manually.
ANY help would be very much appreciated.



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I-Hate-Spam said:
Hi all..

I have a directory where I have thousands of pictures. Unfortunately,
somehow, many of the pictures are exactly the same -- except they have
different filenames!

I'm desperately looking for a program that will automatically figure
out which files (i.e. pictures) are exactly the same and delete the
duplicates for me... Is there such a program?

PLEASE help.. I'll be here the rest of my life trying to do this
manually. ANY help would be very much appreciated.
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Just a thought...

Have you tried sorting by file size? I would suspect that it would be
rare for NON-identical pictures to be the exact same size, while
identical ones should be adjacent to each other in the list.

Still would require manual deletion, but it might not be that bad once
you got going.
 
I-Hate-Spam said:
Hi all..

I have a directory where I have thousands of pictures. Unfortunately,
somehow, many of the pictures are exactly the same -- except they have
different filenames!

I'm desperately looking for a program that will automatically figure out
which files (i.e. pictures) are exactly the same and delete the duplicates
for me... Is there such a program?

PLEASE help.. I'll be here the rest of my life trying to do this manually.
ANY help would be very much appreciated.
Click to expand...

DupeLocater ~176Kb
FAST* Leaves the others in the DUST. Here's how it works * Open a
My Computer window, and DupeLocater * Drag the folders you want to
search from My Computer into DupeLocater. * Click the Search Button. *
DupeLocater will search the directories, and all their sub-directories.
Then it will display a duplicate file list. * Drag the files out of the
duplicate list, and drop them anywhere you want. Into a viewer, into
another folder, or into the trash bin. * Be careful!You can drag a lot
of files, from all different folders this way! It can be very
challenging to undo!

On my "What's New" page or HERE:

http://www.midnightblue.com/DupeLocater.exe

Cheers!

Son Of Spy
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["I-Hate-Spam"; Sun, 09 May 2004 18:03:07 GMT]
I'm desperately looking for a program that will automatically figure
out which files (i.e. pictures) are exactly the same and delete the
duplicates for me...
Click to expand...

Do any programs more closely examine the contents of images so that it can
find near-duplicates -- i.e., images that have been re-saved (in
IrfanView) to minimize file size, or images that have been resized?
 
Dupdetector can find similar images (same image resized and such)

J44xm said:
["I-Hate-Spam"; Sun, 09 May 2004 18:03:07 GMT]
I'm desperately looking for a program that will automatically figure
out which files (i.e. pictures) are exactly the same and delete the
duplicates for me...
Click to expand...

Do any programs more closely examine the contents of images so that it can
find near-duplicates -- i.e., images that have been re-saved (in
IrfanView) to minimize file size, or images that have been resized?
Click to expand...
 
Dear Mr. Son Of Spy,

You are a @^#$% GENIUS!!!!!!!

Seriously... thank you ENORMOUSLY for letting me know about that program.
It worked perfectly. In under 5 minutes I was totally done thanks to your
suggestion.. the program found over 500 duplicates!! That would have taken
me HOURS!!!

Thanks again - REALLY,

:)


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J44xm said:
Do any programs more closely examine the contents of images so that it can
find near-duplicates -- i.e., images that have been re-saved (in
IrfanView) to minimize file size, or images that have been resized?
Click to expand...

Yes. Dup detector, suggested by Susan here some time ago.
http://www.prismaticsoftware.com/Utility/Utility.html

For my personal taste, the greatest is Cerious Thumbsplus. (Edit / Find similar
images). Off topic here because not freeware, but very superior interface and
functionality. Great for general picture database management.

DAN
 
DupeLocater ~176Kb
FAST* Leaves the others in the DUST. Here's how it works * Open a
My Computer window, and DupeLocater * Drag the folders you want to
search from My Computer into DupeLocater. * Click the Search Button. *
DupeLocater will search the directories, and all their sub-directories.
Then it will display a duplicate file list. * Drag the files out of the
duplicate list, and drop them anywhere you want. Into a viewer, into
another folder, or into the trash bin. * Be careful!You can drag a lot
of files, from all different folders this way! It can be very
challenging to undo!

On my "What's New" page or HERE:

http://www.midnightblue.com/DupeLocater.exe
Click to expand...
now *this is some damn fine freeware. thanks!
 
DAN said:
For my personal taste, the greatest is Cerious Thumbsplus. (Edit / Find similar
images).
Click to expand...

'All pics must first have been thumbnailed in Thumbs+'

That looks to me to be a bit limiting compared to something like
Dupelocater.
 
Hi all..

I have a directory where I have thousands of pictures. Unfortunately,
somehow, many of the pictures are exactly the same -- except they have
different filenames!

I'm desperately looking for a program that will automatically figure out
which files (i.e. pictures) are exactly the same and delete the duplicates
for me... Is there such a program?

PLEASE help.. I'll be here the rest of my life trying to do this manually.
ANY help would be very much appreciated.
Click to expand...

"Dupelocater" works great for this, and is SO FAST.

Bob

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DupeLocater ~176Kb
FAST* Leaves the others in the DUST. Here's how it works * Open a
My Computer window, and DupeLocater * Drag the folders you want to
search from My Computer into DupeLocater. * Click the Search Button. *
DupeLocater will search the directories, and all their sub-directories.
Then it will display a duplicate file list. * Drag the files out of the
duplicate list, and drop them anywhere you want. Into a viewer, into
another folder, or into the trash bin. * Be careful!You can drag a lot
of files, from all different folders this way! It can be very
challenging to undo!

On my "What's New" page or HERE:

http://www.midnightblue.com/DupeLocater.exe

Cheers!

Son Of Spy
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Wow! this utility is really impressive. Thank you.
 
Dick Kistler said:
*ProteanThread* said:
J44xm said:
["rdt"; Mon, 10 May 2004 08:18:34 GMT]

This is an awesome program, I recommend it.

Tried it, love it!
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I missed someting :-)

what program is that ?

damn, i hate when i miss something. :-)
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You aren't used to it by now?

Dick
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I'm trying out a new news server with Novell GroupWise. Doesn't seem to be
downloading all messages. :-\
 
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