There are different tools for different purposes as others have already said.įor viewing individual photos, I like Irfan Skiljan IrfanView resp. Just curious, if there is a different tool other than File Explorer? Robocopy should be part of any version of windows. Now, if you've given up on trying to clean up the dupes (per other post) then I'd recommend robocopy scripts I've synced her entire photo set between drives or share drives without having any crashes. If you enable it you can also do file management tasks, copy groups of photos to a new path to organize them etc. Once it pulls out all the similar images you get a thumbnail view and can select the images to delete or move them or copy them etc.

The software has the ability to -view child folders- (so it can go through a whole tree, or branch) and using -find similar- it uses an algorithm and image metrics so it will identify based upon the photo content not the file name.

My wife has over 200,000 photos in her thumbs plus database. Going through the other topic where you were trying to identify and clean up duplicates.įor photo and video management I use Thumbs plus, it has a trial version and is reasonably priced.

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