Re: Help with finding duplicate photos

["Mick Timony-3" <user=1504@nabble.blu.org>]

 I use KDE's digiKam to organise my photographs, and it has an option to 
search for duplicates also. With many of the same feature as gqview (but 
not as lightweight). 

On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 08:55 -0500, Matt Brodeur wrote: 

> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 08:26:01PM -0500, Tom Haskins-Vaughan wrote: 
> > Hi, here's the scenario. I have a directory, /home/photos and in that 
> > folder are lots and lots of photos in many different subfolders. Now, 
> > since I'm paying by the gig to back these up remotely I'd like to make 
> > sure that there are no duplicates. If i can get a list of duplicate 
> > filenames, I'm happy to go through and check that they're actually 
> > duplicates manually, but I'm not too good on the command line. 
> 
> Two of my favorite tools for cleaning up after merging a dozen 
> different home directories are FSlint and GQview. 
> 
> http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/
> "FSlint is a utility to find and clean various forms of lint on a 
> filesystem.  For example, one form of lint it finds is duplicate 
> files.  It has both GUI and command line modes." 
> 
> http://gqview.sourceforge.net/
> "an image browser that features single click access to view images and 
> move around the directory tree 
>  Features: Find duplicates based on file attributes or image content." 
> 
> GQview's duplicate finder is really nice.  Right-click on a directory 
> name, select "Find duplicates recursive", set "Compare by" to 
> "Similarity", and check the "Thumbnails" box.  Depending on how many 
> images you have it might take a long time[1].  The end result is a 
> list of similar images, where you might have both an original and 
> retouched version.  You can also compare by checksum, which will find 
> exact matches regardless of file name or location.  From the list you 
> can select the copies you don't want to keep and delete them. 
> 
> 
> [1] Scanning 4056 files, most of which are 7.1MP jpeg, takes about 20 
> minutes on my new(ish) T61 laptop. 
> 
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