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This results in a massive amount of duplicates files. I have tried several duplicate finder programs, but they all seem to want to search an entire HD/folder and show all the duplicates found at once. I am finding many duplicates (some with different names, some pre and some post processing). I have recently started the huge job of trying to organize his family photos. There are plenty of programs that identify same-name photo files, but you solved a much more difficult problem.Д¬ould you please post the Java modules you wrote, or if that's not convenient, email them to me? If the latter, I'll give you my address in a personal message.ДЄfter my father passed away, I made a copy of his hard drives. If there are any Java programmers out there they're welcome to my source code.

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I'm too lazy to go through the trouble of packaging the program up so that it's easy to install and run. Unfortunately I'm a programmer writing a program just for me. It works amazingly well with rather few false positives. You get the choice of which one to delete or to mark them as skipped. I ended up with two programs: one that scans images and fills in a database with pHash values for each image, and another program that displays side by side two images with similar pHash values, it also indicates the comparative pixel and file sizes. However I couldn't find an off the shelf solution so I wrote it myself in Java. So I did some research and there is a mathematical approach to solving the problem called pHash (Perceptual Hash) that does what you're looking for. I was in the same position many years ago and couldn't find anything like that at the time. So, maybe someone will know of one and can respond properly to your question. At this point I would have expected that people would readily respond: 'use program A' or 'use program B'. This question keeps coming up and it seems that the Google hits are scant. But just try the magic duplicate image finder programs & decide for yourself. Either way, you'll still have to do sorting & comparing & culling & organizing.

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Plus most are slow as hell while browsers like FastStone or the Windows file explorer can be extremely fast.

There is no magic free lunch with any duplicate image finder, they just use fancy lingo to make you think that they are better than a file browser or manager.

Seriously, just roll up your sleeves & use FastStone image browser. This topic comes up quite often & as hardly anyone uses the search function of this forum, the topic gets 'duplicated' & so there are duplicate threads. If you do a search of this forum & the web, you will find LOTS of duplicate file finder programs named & links to them. Have you checked the programs preferences?

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NO duplicate file finder is magic & all will require manual work, though there should be no problem pointing one to a folder vs. Or just use the OS file manager, again will sort images via different criteria. Why not just use an image browser like FastStone, it will sort images in any folder that you point it to & has a compare feature.

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