It very slowly builds the blue bar with a percentage of how far the test has gone. It's a bit weird, no logical (to me) feedback, it simply takes the folder name and gets to work silently, so far no duplicates found so need to set up a test for it. Now is the time to try it and see what happens on my messy computers. Windows doesn't like it as an 'unknown' but no problems so far after it was installed. On my desktop I found Dup Detector that I installed but never got around to the task intended, so is untested by me. The limitation is that you have to click ‘delete’ for each photo individually, which can be time consuming (but, again, it’s FREE, if you want a paid option that will work faster, scroll down).Ĭheck out Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder:I have tens of thousands of photos and I am looking for a good tool to use to remove the many duplicates that I have managed to mess up my library with.

It also looks at the VISUAL COMPONENTS of your photos to determine if they are duplicates and ranks them by ‘similarity’ so you can easily delete the true duplicates. Check out how it works:įor PC users: I recommend the Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder software ( download it for FREE!). It looks at the VISUAL COMPONENTS of your photos to determine if they are duplicates… it doesn’t matter if they have the same filenames or dates! It’s so cool. How to remove duplicates from your photo libraryįor Mac users: I recommend the Photo Sweeper software ( download it for $10!). Are you swimming in digital photos? Have you transferred photos from computer-to-computer, phone-to-phone and you feel like you have TONS of duplicates? Good news! You can identify + delete them AUTOMATICALLY in a few quick clicks with these tutorials.

Program to find duplicate photos