Hi,
I have a huge number of photos and personal videos in different folders. Many are 5 or more identical ones beside each other.
I would like to see all photos - and one copy of each only, not 5 or more - in one folder. Two questions: how can I achieve this, and how can get rid of all the duplicates. I tried Gemini II, but the app doesn't seem to recognize all duplicates and no videos at all.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Mac mini, macOS 12.0
Download Graphic Converter - it's an excellent app for both editing and viewing images. It includes an excellent file browser.
https://www.lemkesoft.de/en/products/graphicconverter/
It has an excellent free trial period also.
When you've installed and launched it, use the browser to view the top level folder where your images are. Then go View -> Show In Flat View
This will show you all the image files in the folders in a single screen.
There is also a duplicate browser under the file menu.
Sounds great, thank you. Will definitely try this. Cheers
Thanks for the suggestions . Will try these over the weekend. Cheers
Thank you. I managed to get rid of most duplicates, however, duplicate videos seem to be hard to detect.
Thank you for letting us know.
Glad to see you are making progress!
All the best with the videos!
Cheers
Hi Caravaccio,
Welcome to the Apple Community.
Apologies I don't know of any software, or if there is any, that would do this task for you.
Here is a method that may work for you:
if all your photo files are .jpg or .jpeg. as is usual,
and
duplicates all have the same filenames
and
the number of photos will not make the task too labour intensive for you.
Re: "how can get rid of all the duplicates"
.
Open a new Finder window, and in the search field. type. .jpg
You should immediately see all the photo files ending in .jpg. appear, listed by file names, with duplicates all together.
(If this doesn't happen ... Use the View menu in the the Finder top menu bar > Sort by > Name
You could work your way down, deleting grouped duplicates en masse as you go.
When you reach the end, and have one copy only of each .jpg, select them all and drag into one new folder.
Do the same with .jpeg files.
(and if needed, with .png or any other files-types)
Also do the same with video files (check the file extensions used) .mov. .mp4. etc.
Hope this will help / work for you :-)
Smart Folders in Finder can also be a useful tool for finding duplicates (see below).
- Pie Lover
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