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Program for finding duplicate photos?

I used to use Visipics and completely loved it, it's simple yet powerful. However it's only for Windows which I have abandoned. Are there any OS X (Lion) programs that do the same? I'm sure there are, …
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Identify duplicate photos in Photos (Catalina 10.15)?

I have an aging Photos library with 40000+ photos in it, and I would like to identify duplicates to remove them. … Previously this has not been possible without third-party software, but I noticed that the "Indexing library" message mentioned something about finding duplicates, I was wondering if it was possible now …
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Find duplicate images in iCloud Photo Library in Yosemite

I moved to Photos and iCloud Photo Library, and I am happy so far. … I have upgraded my Duplicate Annihilator from Aperture to Photos but my 56000 photos seem to be to much for it, because they claim that it is Photos API which is causing problems and slowness. …
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Software to find duplicate videos that have been resized

I have duplicate videos in my Photos library, but the videos have been resized so they are not detected by normal duplicate file finding software. … Does anyone know if any software for OSX that will find duplicate videos that have been resized? …
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How to scan for duplicate files / images in one direction only?

For example I have one folder Summer Vacationand a sub folder which holds all vacation photos which should be used for a photo book. Thus I am not interested in finding these duplicates. … folder and one within the existing photos folder I am not interested in duplicates within the existing photos. …
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Apple Photos isn't allowing merging two of the same pets

Apple Photos is automatically finding the faces of my pets and tagging them as the same pet. … One thought I had is that this may be related to Apple sometimes thinking that "both" pets are in the same photo even though there is only one. …
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What software can find close duplicates from 2TB worth of pictures?

I'm looking for software that runs on Mountain Lion to assist in finding similar photos so I can review and eliminate redundant files. …
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Emptying Camera Roll on iOS 6

from your device that you just synced, but because it did not sync these particular photo duplicates over the cable because they already existed via photostream it does not offer to remove them So it … keeps finding the duplicates on my phone, and I have no easy way of removing the photos en-masse. …
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Is there a Byte-By-Byte Duplicate File Removal app for Mac? (not SHA-1 or MD5 hash!)

I think the duplicate finder Gemini 2 is such an app you are finding, it can find duplicate files by contents(byte-by-byte checking) and file name, it even can sort out the similar photos in your photo
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Making my own HEIF/HEIC files

Haven't had much luck, just large numbers of people converting .heic files to .jpg, and the Nokia JS viewer on GitHub To start, I am not looking to convert my existing Photo Library all to HEVC encoded … So this question is not a duplicate of the "Convert whole library to new .HEIC format" question My goal: Take both a mpeg bytestream and a PNG or JPG bytestream and pack them into a .heic file Take …
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How to deal with duplicate photos syncing on two different devices?

https://fatcatsoftware.com/powerphotos/ The new iOS 16 duplicate finding looks very promising. It’s not as full featured as Power Photos, but it does work on the iPhone directly. …
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Turning off iCloud sync w/ Photos on Mac threatens to delete local files

The number of photos should add up to the total number of photos you had(2,073 in your case). Then just disable iCloud Photo Library. … Then just delete all the photos in your Photo Library, and put all the pictures that in the backup you created earlier into your photo library. …
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Why aren't my pictures really deleted from my iPhone?

One reason for finding some of the deleted photos could be because of the nature of iPhone's flash memory on which the data is saved - deletion or overwriting data is a slow process on such memory. … The duplicates could be because of edits you made to the photos or photos you took in burst mode or HDR mode. …
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Quicker way to copy files to a set of different folders for classification purposes

So, if you had a photo that fell into 5 different categories, you wouldn't have 5 identical copies of the photo, you'd have one with 5 different ways of finding it. … Apple Photos (Included with macOS) Adobe Lightroom Adobe Bridge (Free with purchase of Photoshop or Illustrator) Cyberlink PhotoDirector Magix Photo Manager ACDSee Photo Studio Darktable (FOSS) LightZone …
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