[X4U] Duplicate files

[Crandon David]

Again, File Buddy is the standard for finding dupes, it's been around  
for over 10 years, I'm surprised nobody else mentioned it.

David


On Nov 28, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Jim Elmore wrote:

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