I had a script to do this a while back; used find, md5sum and sort, produced a list of all the files where there was more than one with an identical md5sum, and optionally deleted all but one automatically. That was always a bit of a risky option! Also never got around to making it the oldest one, or the one with the most sensible-looking filename or anything. It was pretty random about which one it chose to keep. I can't find the script now but I could probably hack something up again if nobody knows of any better tools. On 8 March 2010 20:23, John <jaytee(a)clear.net.nz> wrote:
Hi All, Due to some awful archiving. I have around 1500 digital still images that have been duplicated triplicated or more in a number of folders,C/D's and DVD's on a number of drives. I would like to know if there is a way I can dump ALL the directories into one folder then run a "find dupes" type program that would ensure that I did not delete any of my original photos. Regards John
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