Duplicate photo finder

[RED-DOG]

Any recommendations?

Can anyone link me to a safe download?

[Claw75]

would Google images not do the job without the need to download anything?

[RED-DOG]

would Google images not do the job without the need to download anything?

It would be great if it would.

I have thousands of photographs on my laptop. Most are in unnamed and in random folders. Many have been duplicated for some reason or other, i.e. re-sizing copying to other folders etc.

How do I get Google images to find the duplicated ones for me?

[Claw75]

ah I see - I was thinking along the lines of wanting to find duplicates of photos on the internet.  don't have a clue for what you want I'm afraid

[mulhuzz]

a few recommendations here, depending on exactly what types of duplicates you're looking for.

http://lifehacker.com/5535510/clean-up-your-photo-collection-with-free-tools

[The_nun]

Tom when you have figured out how to do it please can you post in in A B C terms for thicko me. x

[RED-DOG]

a few recommendations here, depending on exactly what types of duplicates you're looking for.

http://lifehacker.com/5535510/clean-up-your-photo-collection-with-free-tools

Looking more for something like this but the ones I have looked at seem to carry adware / malware


http://listoffreeware.com/list-of-best-free-duplicate-photo-finder-software/

[RED-DOG]

Tom when you have figured out how to do it please can you post in in A B C terms for thicko me. x

Will do.

Or you could try Mrs Red's method and write a description of every picture on reams  and of paper.
 

[Graham C]

I've not really looked into how it works, but you may be able to use Picasa (from Google) to do this and here's a help page  on it  https://support.google.com/picasa/answer/11484?hl=en-GB

If your folders really are a mess you could also create a new Photos folder, do a search for every photo on your hard drive (something like *.jpeg in the search box) and copy and paste them all into one place, then use Picasa to remove the duplicates.  It may not be a good idea for thousands but it's an option.

[The_nun]

Spent most of today looking for some pictures I seem to have lost on the laptop, but I noticed I have duplicate on duplicates of others.

[RED-DOG]

I've not really looked into how it works, but you may be able to use Picasa (from Google) to do this and here's a help page  on it  https://support.google.com/picasa/answer/11484?hl=en-GB

If your folders really are a mess you could also create a new Photos folder, do a search for every photo on your hard drive (something like *.jpeg in the search box) and copy and paste them all into one place, then use Picasa to remove the duplicates.  It may not be a good idea for thousands but it's an option.

Graham. Does Picasa find duplicates by comparing images or file names?

[Graham C]

I don't know, sorry

[RED-DOG]

I don't know, sorry

My problem is I have duplicate images with different file names.

[mulhuzz]

a few recommendations here, depending on exactly what types of duplicates you're looking for.

http://lifehacker.com/5535510/clean-up-your-photo-collection-with-free-tools

Looking more for something like this but the ones I have looked at seem to carry adware / malware


http://listoffreeware.com/list-of-best-free-duplicate-photo-finder-software/

http://www.visipics.info/index.php?title=Main_Page

looks like it does what you want?

[RED-DOG]

a few recommendations here, depending on exactly what types of duplicates you're looking for.

http://lifehacker.com/5535510/clean-up-your-photo-collection-with-free-tools

Looking more for something like this but the ones I have looked at seem to carry adware / malware


http://listoffreeware.com/list-of-best-free-duplicate-photo-finder-software/

http://www.visipics.info/index.php?title=Main_Page

looks like it does what you want?

That seems like just the job. just have to learn to drive it now.

tyty