Guest /u/evenfallframework Posted November 16, 2024 Posted November 16, 2024 https://b.thumbs.redditmedia.com/MtHGMyu17V4WjC0ghpi-6w9whNLKmUZie11jQ34wqgE.jpg I've taken the past week to go through 20 years of old hard drives, flash drives, memory cards, and phones and moved EVERYTHING to one 4tb SSD. I have photos organized in folders by year. Over the years I've made dozens of backups, resulting in multiple copies of the same photos. Just in case I had DIFFERENT photos/files with duplicate names, when I've been moving photos to their year folders I've said "Keep Both". This means that in each year folder I have several copies of the same files (with either a number or "copy" appended to the file name). See screenshot. https://preview.redd.it/yam2lesn561e1.png?width=532&format=png&auto=webp&s=0d04842c4df1a87846018fc44acada24dc416a2f What would be the best way to reduce this all down to one copy of each file, NOT based on file name? Is there an application out there that can look at the file itself (perhaps by size?) to identify duplicates and move them to a different folder (or just delete them)? Happy to buy software for this, I just really don't want to do it manually (and don't have the scripting skills to automate it). Thanks! EDIT: Eventually I'll end up creating several drives as backups as well as a cloud backup (I have like 8tb of storage on GDrive), but I just want to clean it all up first, you know? submitted by /u/evenfallframework [link] [comments]
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