Can anyone recommend one?
I just tried PictureEcho but it is not great.
I will update here if i find anything better.....
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I second the AllDup recommendation!
As a professional photo organizer, I have tested most de-duping applications. Duplicate Cleaner Pro (DCP) by Digital Volcano is the best photo de-duping application by far. I use it to de-dupe millions of photos every year.
AllDup doesn't even look at the 'Date Taken', only the File Created Date, which is often not the same as the Date Taken, and can change.
With DCP, one can set criteria for Date Taken (including sub-seconds if desired) and many other file properties and photo metadata fields.
I am a consultant for DCP. Please let me know if you have any questions. There will be an update in the next week or so.
Thanks I have had a go
Nice feature set crucially including the ability to select all duplicates in a specified folder.
Clunky interface. Why do AV developers all do that????
Thanks again.
I will look at DCP sometime looks interesting.......
Cheers!
At first look DCP indeed looks like a winner.
I see 7 active forum posts for August - a good indicator for me of the health of a software product.
This is feature I value by far the most see below.
This is one area where I would like to see Opus duplicate file finder add a similar feature set:
I agree that the interface is not great. I have some UI consulting experience, and have sent DCP a long list of UI changes I'd like to see. But, fixing bugs and adding features always comes first.
The Selection Assistant offers a wide range of options for marking files based on many criteria.
Duplicate removal--especially for photos and videos--is a very complex task. I think duplicate photo and video removal is best done by applications dedicated solely to that task.
Actually I was commenting about AllDup.
DCP interface is much better..... some logic to it at least 
Nice
I agree. I would hate to see DO lose focus. But it has an effective duplicate file finder and better more flexible choices about which duplicate files to delete would be good. Esp "select all files in a specified folder. Golden.
Something like this is planned.
I trialed Digital Volcano DCP today and at first glance found that it easily found things I had done on the fly.
A quick conversion for an email for instance can easily be forgotten and later confused even if I am aware of the folder and the file name. I do archive my photos, but not everything ends up there in the beginning, cell phone photos being a real instance.
Family send me the few photos of my sister that we have that I am attempting to collect, but they are often named different and more. Many were archived on online sites that I can't access.
It is an ongoing effort of mine. Sometimes we have something, but not this one.
She died in 2017 . Long story.
Perhaps Digital Volcano's DCP is worth the price.
It is on my list.
Thanks !
DCP is Great!
past a MD5 scan with DO & Everything do fine, they have advanced viewing, selection and filtering tools for the results. Additionally they have Content Scanning within media files, e.g. photo, video & audio. The content scanning can take a while with movies & audio but it does a good job, while displaying compared metadata as well.
I made app button for Duplicate Cleaner...
Duplicate Cleaner 5.dcf (1.3 KB)
These button work on Directories only, scanning automatically with the quick MD5, it also displays the Remaining files or Unique Files tab.
Send Current L\R Parent Folders to Duplicate Cleaner 5
@nodeselect
@dirsonly
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Duplicate Cleaner 5\Duplicate Cleaner 5.exe" /ir {sourcepath|noterm} /ir {destpath|noterm} /m /scan
Send Selected L\R Folders to Duplicate Cleaner 5
@nodeselect
@dirsonly
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Duplicate Cleaner 5\Duplicate Cleaner 5.exe" /ir {filepath|noterm} /ir {allfilepathdest|noterm} /m /scan
Yes, Duplicate Cleaner Pro 5 (by Digital Volcano) is great! I'm glad you're a fan!
I have been working with the developers since 2021 and have helped make it the best image/photo duplicate finder by far. Even professional photo organizers who are dedicated Mac users are acknowledging its superiority and buying a PC for de-duping! My name is in the credits.
Thank you for creating a button, but using that button to start a scan on a selected folder will scan the folder using whtever mode and scan criteria is already selected on the Scan Criteria tab.
I recommend:
While Opus has a very useful de-duping feature that may be fine for many people and file types, only DCP meets my needs for de-duping my clients photo and video collections.
DCP--especially Image mode--is complicated, because accurate and thorough photo duplicate removal is complicated--especially when one needs to preserve metadata and meaningful information (like a folder named 'Sarah's wedding') added by clients. The powerful Selection Assistant allows one to mark files for removal based on any criteria or combination of criteria one would need to consider.
There will be an update in the next week or so that will include about 11 minor changes and fixes I requested in preparation for the DCP course I will be launching as soon as I can make new screen recording and screenshots of the updated tabs for my course.
My upcoming course is called Introduction to Duplicate Cleaner Pro for Photo Organizers. It's an overview any user will benefit from, but the focus is on photos and videos.
The course will be a pre-requisite for 3 other DCP courses I am working on so that I don't have to repeat the same information over and over!
The course includes a coupon for 30% off DCP. One must enroll in the course to get the discount code.
If anyone has any questions about DCP, I'd be happy to answer them.
