[sllug-members]: GUI for finding and deleting duplicate files?

[Walt Haas]

gthumb has a button to find duplicates by content.

-- Walt

Marc Christensen wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I was wondering if anyone knows of a good GUI solution for finding and 
> deleting duplicate files.
>
> I have a directory structure for my photographic images organized like 
> this:
>
>    ./images
>            /20051003-101nd200
>            /20051104-101nd200
>            /20060320-100olymp
>            /20070309-101nd200
>            etc...
>
> where the directory name includes the date of the dump followed by the 
> camera's directory from the memory card.  This allows me to easily 
> organize the photos roughly by date.  However, I have a bad habit of 
> not always formatting my memory cards after a dump :) So, successive 
> directories may contain pictures which have already been dumped.  Now, 
> this creates a problem.  If I decide to do further work on a picture 
> or set of pictures, there's no real guarantee that I'll work on the 
> image(s) dumped first.  So a project (located in the same dir usually) 
> may be associated with the first dump or any dump made later making 
> the removing of duplicates only by date sub-optimal.  In projects, I 
> don't modify the originals but I work in the same directory.
>
> There are several CLI tools that find duplicate files that I am 
> familiar with.  The issue is that while doing this programatically 
> would be fast and efficient (I could just delete the newer of two or 
> more identical files), this could mess with my highly awesome and 
> coveted process of photo organization as outlined above.
>
> So, while a lot slower, I'd like to be able to preview duplicates in a 
> GUI and make sure that I'm saving the right ones.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -- 
> Marc
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