Duplicate Image Detection

Pez · 16 Aug 2009 at 12:34

Hi Guys,

Can anyone point me towards a good free duplicate image detector, that will allow me to scan large dirs of images, and then allow me to bin anything found without me needing to pay $30 for a single use? (It's one folder, but lots of images)

Thanks in advance

Spyhop · 16 Aug 2009 at 13:24

This Terminal command should identify duplicate files of any type. I don't know sed/awk/whatever enough to strip out the path to use for deletion

Code:

find /Users/bob/stuff/ -type f -maxdepth 1 | xargs md5 | uniq -df 4

Pez · 16 Aug 2009 at 14:16

Thanks for that wush

Found a nice opensource app that seems to do exactly what I'm after though!

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=171820&package_id=196459&release_id=430434

philjohn · 16 Aug 2009 at 15:26

If you can copy the folder to a windows machine (if you have one handy) then I can heartily recommend VisiPics, used it recently to remove about 1500 dupes from 50GB of family photos in only a couple of hours (taken to make sure I was deleting the right one), even allows you to loosen the image search to look for very similar images and/or rotated ones.