Post by Sue on Feb 5, 2016 21:06:29 GMT
If there is a thread floating around about duplicates I apologize, search decided not to work for me today
Over the years I have(like all of us) created a lot of duplicates, both pictures and folders(docs,xls etc). I have played around on and off with progrms tht could find duplicates, never very succesfull. Today, I decided to try it again and stumbled across Mindgems, Fast Duplicate Finder. This did a very good job and I cleaned up a lot of duplicate files but it didn't do pictures very well. This is a free product.
I went back to the Mindgems website and found Visually Similarity Duplicate Image Finder. It did a great job on my test database of 200 pics. The free download would only find 10 duplicates but the full version will do the entire database($24.95).
The neat part about both these products is that you can take what it finds as duplicates and save it in a file rather than delete your duplicates. Of course, you could delete all your duplicates but I am not that brave yet.
The problem is if I remove the duplicates from my PSE data I will have a lot of disconnected files. That is a minor problem as PSE has a way to find those files.
PSE also has a visual search that works but it is slow, very slow. The Mindgems products are very fast and much easier to use. The only downside I see currently is needing to go back to PSE and delete the disconnected entries.
I still have a few questions that I sent to Mindgems about how it does some things but in general am very pleased with the product.
I have a bad/good/sloppy habit of making a lot of copies as I edit a picture so I am likely to have 20 copies of the same picture but only really need the first and last. I plan to use Mindgems to clean up this self-created situation.
I have no association with Mindgems and strongly recommend you take a look at the products. If you know of any other products similar to this please let the forum know.
www.mindgems.com is the website.
Over the years I have(like all of us) created a lot of duplicates, both pictures and folders(docs,xls etc). I have played around on and off with progrms tht could find duplicates, never very succesfull. Today, I decided to try it again and stumbled across Mindgems, Fast Duplicate Finder. This did a very good job and I cleaned up a lot of duplicate files but it didn't do pictures very well. This is a free product.
I went back to the Mindgems website and found Visually Similarity Duplicate Image Finder. It did a great job on my test database of 200 pics. The free download would only find 10 duplicates but the full version will do the entire database($24.95).
The neat part about both these products is that you can take what it finds as duplicates and save it in a file rather than delete your duplicates. Of course, you could delete all your duplicates but I am not that brave yet.
The problem is if I remove the duplicates from my PSE data I will have a lot of disconnected files. That is a minor problem as PSE has a way to find those files.
PSE also has a visual search that works but it is slow, very slow. The Mindgems products are very fast and much easier to use. The only downside I see currently is needing to go back to PSE and delete the disconnected entries.
I still have a few questions that I sent to Mindgems about how it does some things but in general am very pleased with the product.
I have a bad/good/sloppy habit of making a lot of copies as I edit a picture so I am likely to have 20 copies of the same picture but only really need the first and last. I plan to use Mindgems to clean up this self-created situation.
I have no association with Mindgems and strongly recommend you take a look at the products. If you know of any other products similar to this please let the forum know.
www.mindgems.com is the website.
