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cyberdos
Mar-16-2009, 02:41 PM
I'm looking for an application (preferably free) that will find duplicate images in my photo collection so I can delete them.

Something like this (http://www.codeplex.com/DupliFinder). Just something simple to use. I have hundreds of thousands of pics in my hard drive and want to start to get things organized.
Nikolai
Mar-16-2009, 02:52 PM
I'm looking for an application (preferably free) that will find duplicate images in my photo collection so I can delete them.

Something like this (http://www.codeplex.com/DupliFinder). Just something simple to use. I have hundreds of thousands of pics in my hard drive and want to start to get things organized.
I wrote something like for a client of mine who needed to clean up his fairly large collection before mass uploading to SM.
It's not gonna be free, though, sorry..
codrus
Mar-19-2009, 06:05 PM
I wrote something like for a client of mine who needed to clean up his fairly large collection before mass uploading to SM.
It's not gonna be free, though, sorry..

Finding multiple copies of the same file but with different file names is easy and free. Software that can figure out that two files are both pictures of the same tree is a lot harder.

Aperture does some "auto-stacking" by using heuristics based on the timestamp in the exif info that identifes when the picture was taken. That'll get the files where you hit the shutter button three times in a row without moving the camera, but not pictures of the same scene taken on different days.

--Ian
Nikolai
Mar-19-2009, 07:52 PM
Software that can figure out that two files are both pictures of the same tree is a lot harder.
Hence my "not free" comment :-) :wink
Icebear
Mar-21-2009, 09:20 AM
One usually does get what one pays for.
Nikolai
Mar-22-2009, 01:15 PM
One usually does get what one pays for.
+1 :agree :deal
codrus
Mar-22-2009, 06:26 PM
One usually does get what one pays for.

While that's certainly true for physical things, there's a surprising amount of high-quality free software out there, so it wasn't an unreasonable question for cyberdos to have asked, IMHO.

--Ian
Osprey
Mar-23-2009, 04:20 PM
What is wrong with the one you referenced? Quick look at it seems fine.