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Aug
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comment How can I find duplicate photos in about 100gb of data?
I really like this idea of making thumbnails first. What does it do once you have found the duplicates? Does it just display a list? I have 10s of thousands of duplicates and a nice GUI to help resolve these would be very useful.
Aug
10
comment How can I find duplicate photos in about 100gb of data?
That sounds nice. What does it do once you have found the duplicates? Does it just display a list? I have 10s of thousands of duplicates and a nice GUI to help resolve these would be very useful.
Aug
10
comment How can I find duplicate photos in about 100gb of data?
What does it do once you have found the duplicates? Does it just display a list? I have 10s of thousands of duplicates and a nice GUI to help resolve these would be very useful.
Aug
10
comment How can I find duplicate photos in about 100gb of data?
Also, once you have correctly conjured the incantation that does this, the output is still not very useful. At best you get the output of fdupes which is a just a dump of similar files. In my case I have 10s of thousands and it is very hard to pick through that data to see how I can eliminate the duplicates.
Aug
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comment How can I find duplicate photos in about 100gb of data?
I regularly use unix tools and I find this answer somewhat silly. First, doing SHA blindly is slow, when a file size comparizon resolves things. Second, SHA or MD5 can collide -- so SHA comparisons alone arent enough. If you factor in both these, then you get to what fdupes does.
Aug
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comment How can I find duplicate photos in about 100gb of data?
@Skaperen What you suggest is great, but do such tools exist for Ubuntu? I have seen one mentioned somewhere for Windows -- but that seemed to have a hideous interface.. etc.
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comment How can I find duplicate photos in about 100gb of data?
None of this is easy or convenient. fdupes mentioned below will already do a better job than merely calculating SHA. Now are there unix tools that will look for image similarity? If so, that would be awesome.
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comment How can I find duplicate photos in about 100gb of data?
I just tried fslint on a smaller set of pictures (a few gig or so) and its frustrating that it just sits there and spins. No progress indicator, estimate of time left, nothing.
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