![]() You can choose to delete the older or newer file, the one the the shorter or longer filename. Click Start scanning to set it going.ĬloneSpy creates checksums for each file and when there are duplicate checksums it deletes all the duplicates. ![]() Only exact duplicates of files are deleted and you will never lose an original. SimilarImages is a different kind of duplicate file finder and this free utility only works with photos. ![]() As the name implies, it finds similar images. It finds exact duplicates too, but it goes much further than this and it finds images that are not the same, but are very similar.Īn example is an original photo and a photo you resized, perhaps for sharing on the web, emailing, posting on social media and so on. SimilarImages can tell if two photos are the same even if they are completely different sizes.Īn original may be 3,000 x 2,000 pixels, but a resized one may be 600 x 400 pixels. SimilarImages can tell they are the same. This enables you to delete the smaller one if you no longer need it, leaving the original. SimilarImages can also tell when two photos are almost the same. One thing you might do is take a burst of photos in order to pick the best one, or maybe to capture some action. I often take multiple photos of something in the hope of getting one good one. The photos may be all slightly different, but SimilarImages can tell they are almost the same and you can choose the ones to keep.Ĭlick the second icon in the toolbar to add one or more folders to scan. Subfolders are included and you can add folders from different drives if you need to. Click the first icon, the magnifying glass, to begin scanning. When SimilarImages has finished, it opens a window to show the similar images it found. The buttons in the centre enable either the left or right photo to be deleted, one to be copied to the other, or both deleted. Deleted files are sent to the Recycle Bin, so you can rescue one if you accidentally delete the wrong image. There is an option to delete photos automatically, but I prefer to manually check each one. This makes it slow and tedious, but I like to see what I am deleting. In the screenshot above, the left image is a higher resolution than the right, so it is probably the original.
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