[X4U] Duplicate files

Crandon David tabdave at comcast.net
Mon Nov 28 20:53:02 PST 2005


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David


On Nov 28, 2005, at 10:16 AM, Richard Gilmore 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.
>
>
> On 28/11/05 12:51 PM, "Charles Howse" <chowse at charter.net> wrote:
>
>>> Is there an app that will search for duplicate files? I’ve got  
>>> thousands of
>>> duplicate jpgs in iPhoto so it’s not practical to go through them  
>>> by hand
>>> and delete the same ones. I’d like something that would ideally  
>>> move the
>>> duplicates to another folder so I could back them up in case I  
>>> needed them.
>>
>> When you say 'duplicate' do you mean that the file names are the  
>> same, or
>> that the pictures are the same, but with different file names?
>>
>> If the file names are the same, you could write a shell script to  
>> find the
>> duplicate file names, and move them to another folder.
>>
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