Very Computer

Hello all,

I have about 500+ pics that I found & I need to find duplicate images.

They all have different file names, so I cannot go by that.

Do any of you have any ideas on a method of doing this (hopefully other that by
looking at each pic)?

If you have a thumbnail viewer like Thumb Plus or IrfanView that would help.
Other then that you'll have to weed through them.
Good luck  ~chero~

I know that I've seen some apps in shareware directories that do just
that, although they are targeted at finding any duplicate files, not
only graphics. Try over at shareware.com or cdrom.com; I'm pretty sure
that the CICA Win32 CD that Walnut Creek publishes has had tools like
this from time to time.

Failing that, it depends on what you have for a toolset and how much
effort you want to devote to the problem. The easiest first thing to do
would be to get a directory listing sorted by size and eliminate
anything that didn't have a size-match. After that, you could CRC the
rest or do a binary compare of the first 'n' bytes. Do you do C? Do you
have any UNIX-like tools (sum, od, or cmp, or ...)?

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Rich Webb    Norfolk, VA

Hallo chero,

Quote:> If you have a thumbnail viewer like Thumb Plus or IrfanView that
> would help.

Yes, since version 4 ThumbsPlus has a function for finding similar  
images (I haven't heard of this functionality in IrfanView yet, I have  
an ancient version only though).

If the duplicates are byte-for-byte identical you can use a CRC dupe  
finder too.

Quote:> Other then that you'll have to weed through them.
> Good luck

.. and lots of time.

Ciao
A.