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I had a similar issue with photos/videos and ended up building a cli app to organize everything, it has worked for my use case relatively well, still, there are
by AlexITC 4y ago
I had a similar issue with photos/videos and ended up building a cli app to organize everything, it has worked for my use case relatively well, still, there are uncovered corner cases. For example, this compares hashes only instead of the same photo in a different dimension: https://github.com/wiringbits/my-photo-timeline https://github.com/wiringbits/my-photo-timeline
I understand that https://photostructure.com/ https://photostructure.com/ has a far more sophisticated dedup algorithm, which can be worth a try.
- mceachen 4y agoPhotoStructure will definitely take care of deduplicating your photos and videos, but it doesn’t do other file types. I’d use the latest alpha build, by the way: I’ve made a ton of improvements from the stable release (I hope to promote the alpha build through beta and stable soon). In any event, it’s good to think about what you actually mean by a duplicate file. I’ve written about this here: https://photostructure.com/faq/what-do-you-mean-by-deduplicate/ https://photostructure.com/faq/what-do-you-mean-by-deduplica... Also: once PhotoStructure has examined your files, you can decide what to do with the “duplicates”: https://photostructure.com/server/tools/#show-me-all-the-duplicate-variant-filenames-for-each-asset https://photostructure.com/server/tools/#show-me-all-the-dup... (and pipe the result through xargs). Have a full online backup before starting this project!