[X4U] Duplicate files

[Jim Elmore]

Have a look at Tidy Up! from <http://www.hyperbolicsoftware.com>. It  
finds duplicates with lots of selectable criteria.

Jim Elmore
(918) 688-6417



On Nov 28, 2005, at 12:29 PM, Charles Howse wrote:

>> 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.
>
>
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