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Millions of photos and hardly any tool to deduplicate them all.
by egberts1 4y ago
Millions of photos and hardly any tool to deduplicate them all.
- nolok 4y agoThere are many, they just all tend to suck. Either they miss images that are the same but not really (Eg two different jpg save of an original), or they catch false positive. Then you find something that works great, but it ends up requiring manual usage to be reliable, which makes my 20+ years of photos archive unusable. Then you try to find the same for movies and video file, and it's even worse.
- aaaaaaaaata 4y agoDoes anyone at least have a frontend that shows the guesses for you to Approve | Deny?
- mceachen 4y agoThis feels like a softball directly lobbed to me! I'm writing PhotoStructure, specifically to deal with my last 20+ years of photos, and the fact that I haven't stayed on top of keeping them all organized. The disarray was made (much) worse by my bad luck in picking cloud photo services (most of them which have shut down, or, like Google Photos, left me with a "takeout" that was down-sampled or with metadata loss). In any event, if you tackle this task, this article should help you consider which set of duplicate files you'd want to consider to be the "winner": https://photostructure.com/faq/what-do-you-mean-by-deduplicate/ https://photostructure.com/faq/what-do-you-mean-by-deduplica...