![]() How does it work?īy the click of a button Duplicate Annihilator scans your library for duplicates using various sets of well tested detection algorithms and assign the detected duplicates to an album where you can review and delete the duplicates. Over the years it has helped millions of customers with the daunting task of cleaning up their duplicate photos. Duplicate Annihilatorĭuplicate Annihilator is the oldest duplicate detection software for photos on the market and also probably the most well tested. First for iPhoto, then for Aperture, iOS and now for Photos. And for almost twenty years we have provided our customers with an easy solution. So let's get rid of those duplicates.įor almost twenty years people has asked us this question. Duplicates makes organizing your photos so much harder and it makes your photos less enjoyable. PhotoSweeper doesn’t only work with photos, btw, but also videos and PDFs.Duplicate photos in our Photos library, we all have them and it is irritating. My brief description of it definitely doesn’t do it justice, so if you’re trying to deduplicate photos I’d recommend checking it out-it’s paid, but they have a quite limited trial that will allow you to see if it’ll work for your use case. One challenge for me was to keep the versions of photos and videos that had the correct creation timestamps, and it made it much easier than any other tool that I’ve tried (it surfaces much more metadata about the photos when reviewing the duplicates). It’s just so much more customizable, plus it can search your entire Apple Photos library in a much better way than Gemini (works with photos not stored on your Mac as long as you’re comparing photos that look like each other, not exactly the same file-but this of course also includes exact replicas), and much more. Not sure how well known it is among the community, so sharing just in case it could help someone out as it did for me. The good news is that specifically for photo deduplication I’ve found PhotoSweeper to be way better than anything else I’ve come across. If anyone has found a better tool by now, please share! I’ve found that if I compare the relevant subfolders again afterward it finds more duplicates, but that’s quite labor-intensive, and the duplicates may not be located in a similar folder structure anyway. That sucks because it’s pretty poor at finding all duplicates, especially when comparing large folders. The bad news is that I’ve still not found a better general-purpose deduplication tool than Gemini. Sorry for reviving an old thread, but since I’ve been looking for a better alternative to Gemini II lately and have partially succeeded I figured I’d finally join the forum (I’ve been lurking for a while) to share my findings… heic files (I may be wrong, but this newer file format might not be in its coded ability to “see”). ![]() Is there a more modern utility than Gemini II? I don’t think it can properly “see” the. … BUT there has to be a way to automate this. jpgs with duplicates and (CTL+selecting the others) grabbing just the intermittent JPGs and deleting them. I spent some time physically highlighting the. ![]() It’s not as easy as “sorting by type and deleting a chunk of JPGs” because there are some JPGs in there without a corresponding. This is the mixed and (a little bit) “messed up” Dropbox folder labeled “Camera Uploads.” One failure: It did not tag photos where I have one version as a. ![]() … It helped me find and move some duplicate photos & files (not deleting at this moment, because I am uncertain about the files portion…). ![]()
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