[X4U] Duplicate files

[Charles Howse]

> The files have the exact same names unless iPhoto renames without telling
> me. But iPhoto has put them into different folders. I wouldn't have imported
> so many photos but I thought iPhoto was supposed to check and see if you
> were importing the same photo more than once.

I would post to the [X-Unix] list on this server, and ask for help there.
Someone can surely help you with a shell script that will do exactly what
you need.
I played with it a bit, and I'm sure it can be done, though I didn't quite
get there in the limited time I've played with it.  :-)

You need something akin to:
$ find ~/Pictures -name '*.jpg' (but only output the part of the filename
after the last '/', i.e. holiday.jpg); then write that to a file, sort the
file, uniq -d the file for duplicate lines.  There's your list of dups, then
you can act on that to backup the files.