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[Dragyn]

What's the best way to filter out images (duplicates)?

When using ~dup, it doesn't get them all because I probably have different tag info in the file. Even though MC will display the same size for both files, like 204.1 KB, it won't treat it as a duplicate. Some of them are off by just 1 byte.

Would it be worth stripping the tag out and then trying it?

Would also be nice to find resolution differences. I have a lot of files that are just smaller versions of the original. I'd probably have to do those by hand.

[drosoph]

I use lots of means to determine photo dups ... but I expect a dup to have same dimensions .. and the names are typically the same .. not the filename, but the name ...

[Omni]

Curious:  So MC only uses the tags to determine image duplicates?


I use ADCSee 6.0 to find duplicates, it actually compares the image, not the tags.  (Guessing, but it's probably just doing a simple CRC comparison.)  It finds them really fast, but the process of actually deleting them is very cumbersome and annoying.  (You have to delete each image one by one;  there's no option to select groups and delete them all at once.)


I'm still a very amateur digital photographer, so I have not yet developed the discipline to stay organized.   Because of this, often I will copy (and then recopy, recopy, and recopy my flashcards) and still then even make backups.  This results in literally tens of thousands of duplicates over time.