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If you think you have a folder of images with duplicates, PhotoSweeper will get the job done for you. I’m not sure how PhotoSweeper thinks they can get around that issue, but I wasn’t about to find out. If you remove images from folders, outside of Lightroom, then your catalog will have errors. PhotoSweeper has its place, but the problem comes in when you’re using a Lightroom library. The grid is where you will see every duplicate detected and how many there are of each individual image. You also have the ability to select which is the original and to open the file. The side-by-side comparison lets you see the photographs larger. The cool part is that it uses both meta data, file data and also the appearance of the photo in order to find duplicates.Īfter you choose the folder with your images, you can then pick the settings, how detailed you wan the detection and more.

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The Overmacs team has created a visually stunning Mac application that can review your photo library or folder for duplicates. PhotoSweeper doesn’t only work with photos, btw, but also videos and PDFs.If you have ever accidentally imported or saved duplicate photographs and images to your computer, then PhotoSweeper is for you.

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My brief description of it definitely doesn’t do it justice, so if you’re trying to deduplicate photos I’d recommend checking it out-it’s paid, but they have a quite limited trial that will allow you to see if it’ll work for your use case. One challenge for me was to keep the versions of photos and videos that had the correct creation timestamps, and it made it much easier than any other tool that I’ve tried (it surfaces much more metadata about the photos when reviewing the duplicates).

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It’s just so much more customizable, plus it can search your entire Apple Photos library in a much better way than Gemini (works with photos not stored on your Mac as long as you’re comparing photos that look like each other, not exactly the same file-but this of course also includes exact replicas), and much more. Not sure how well known it is among the community, so sharing just in case it could help someone out as it did for me. The good news is that specifically for photo deduplication I’ve found PhotoSweeper to be way better than anything else I’ve come across. If anyone has found a better tool by now, please share! I’ve found that if I compare the relevant subfolders again afterward it finds more duplicates, but that’s quite labor-intensive, and the duplicates may not be located in a similar folder structure anyway.

That sucks because it’s pretty poor at finding all duplicates, especially when comparing large folders. The bad news is that I’ve still not found a better general-purpose deduplication tool than Gemini. Sorry for reviving an old thread, but since I’ve been looking for a better alternative to Gemini II lately and have partially succeeded I figured I’d finally join the forum (I’ve been lurking for a while) to share my findings… heic files (I may be wrong, but this newer file format might not be in its coded ability to “see”). Is there a more modern utility than Gemini II? I don’t think it can properly “see” the. … BUT there has to be a way to automate this. jpgs with duplicates and (CTL+selecting the others) grabbing just the intermittent JPGs and deleting them. I spent some time physically highlighting the. It’s not as easy as “sorting by type and deleting a chunk of JPGs” because there are some JPGs in there without a corresponding. This is the mixed and (a little bit) “messed up” Dropbox folder labeled “Camera Uploads.” One failure: It did not tag photos where I have one version as a. … It helped me find and move some duplicate photos & files (not deleting at this moment, because I am uncertain about the files portion…).

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