How to delete duplicate photos on my windows PC

[ethan11james]

hello Everyone can any one suggest me tool to delete duplicate photos on my PC i have most photos similar and duplicate if anyone have tools to suggest me

[molona]

Similar and duplicate do not mean the same. There are some softwares that will help you to remove duplicates but will not remove similar photos. These softwares may help you to locate those photos that are similar to each other though.

I can’t recommend any because I don’t use this type of software. Yet, by searching Google I found quite a few entries for this task.

I will let you a link to an article that I hope it iwll help you

5 Ways to Find Duplicate Image Files on Windows PC

Just in case that you’re a new member trying to drop a link for your “favourite” software (meaning that one that you really want to promote desperately. Please, don’t.

If this topic turns to a list of unhelpful answers, answers will be deleted and topic closed.

Thanks for your understanding

[Mittineague]

A somewhat related discussion about determining multiple images using PHP may be helpful in that it provides some insight into the complexities of various approaches taken to determine what constitutes “duplicate”

Hash an image without antialiasing

I am hashing images using MD5 in order to be able to identify duplicate images being uploaded. On the whole this has been working quite well, however I have recently noticed duplicate images with different hashes. I have two images which appear on the surface to be identical but then compared using an online tool they seems to be different. In colour the images are 0.4% different, and black & white they are 0.1% different, and when “Ignore antialiasing” is selected they are identical. So what …

[John_Betong]

A free Windows utility (that I miss now that I am using Linux):

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/2912/everything-is-an-awesome-utility-that-locates-files-and-folders-instantly-in-windows/

It only takes a couple of seconds to index the drive and using a *.jpg mask will display duplicates.

[James_Jordan]

Thanks for sharing, I will give this a try to delete my duplicate images.

[Mia12]

If you are a Windows or a Linux user and want a basic but free program to find duplicate photos and similar shots, give VisiPics a try. Even though it doesn’t have a very nice interface, it’s pretty effective and fast, plus it has adjustable similarity levels. It also has a feature to preview the duplicates, which really is a must for photo comparison software. The last stable version was released more than a year ago and can be downloaded from VisiPics’ official website.

See https://www.dropshots.com/blog/index.php/how-to-find-duplicate-photos-on-your-pc-or-mac/

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[reckonankit]

Hey ethan have you try duplicate photos fixer to delete and find duplicate photos. i was used tool on Mac platform and now it also available for windows users also you can check it here http://www.duplicatephotosfixer.com/