Then, you can delete the temporary folder through Finder.” What I suggest in these cases is to use the ‘Move’ feature and move duplicates to a temporary folder on the same drive. UPDATE: I emailed Virgil at Hardcoded and received a reply four days later, which isn’t bad service at all: He says, “The ‘Send to Trash’ feature sometimes doesn’t work on network drives. I’m happy enough to move directories to my local disk to do these kinds of operations. Our network may be to blame for this, and the s l o w speed of the scan. Eventually I found “Move to Trash” in the “cogwheel menu’ and away they went 547 duplicate files… how untidy and unorganised of me!ĭoing the same exercise over a network wasn’t so successful when trying to move the files to trash, I just got Directory Not Found errors. Then it was a bit of a hunt for how to delete them. Once I’d convinced myself that I could safely go ahead, I chose Dupes Only annd happily found that command-A on a mac did a select all. Details enabled me to compare thumbnails of the two images to reassuure myself that it was correctly matching similar images and that I wasn’t about to delete the entire master scans archive of a major project. I soon found the Details, Dupes Only and Delta buttons at the top. Sizes were displayed, and the percentage similarity, and you could list ascending or descending by any column. I’d slightly tweaked the preferences so it wasn’t only looking for exact matches and, sure enough, small JPEG versions of the giant TIFFs (Photoshop PSDs are recognised too) were coming up as matches. Helpfully, DupeGuru PE seemed to consider my TIFFs to be the originals, which is what I had in mind. Once the scan had finished, I had to scratch my head a bit about what to do next the “originals” seemed to be listed in blue, and the duplicate images were in black. The results of my image scan, showing Details comparison window But it helpfully gives a progress indicator showing the number of files, and how many have been scanned so far. Don’t expect it to zip through hundreds of pictures in an instant even on this powerhouse mac it took a good few minutes. I set it to work straight away on a two folders full of TIFF scans (dragged into the window), some of which had been resized and resaved to JPGs. Installing on a big 2x3Ghz Quad Core Intel Xeon powermac was no trouble download the image, open it and drag the app to the applications folder. Payment works using the fairware approach, where the amount of hours spent creating the software are logged, and you’re reminded when you open the software of how many hours work has been done on your behalf, which should be enough to prompt any reasonable-minded user to fling a few crusts their way, via PayPal. And continuing well with free-to-download software available on Windows, Linux and OS X. Dupe Guru PE (picture Edition) reviewĪ good start by Hardcoded Software, with a punning reference (presumably) to the excellent sampling duo Loop Guru. Reviews are completely independent and are one of the many arms of. All the products are ones that I’ve purchased and used. “Scan Type” varies across dupeGuru editions in Standard, you can compare files and folders by contents and filename.Random Reviews is a simple collection of equipment, software and consumer reviews for creative people and artists, with really good pictures (click on photos to see hi-res versions where available). Picture edition offers comparison by EXIF timestamp and “Picture blocks” – a time-consuming option that divides each picture into a grid and calculates the average color for every tile. In Music edition, you can analyze “Fields,” “Tags” and “Audio content.” Some settings depend on the scan type: “Word weighting” and “Match similar words” work only when you search for file names. Conversely, “Filter Hardness” doesn’t apply when you perform a “Contents” scan.ĭupeGuru can ignore small files and links (shortcuts) to a file, and lets you use regular expressions to further customize your query. You can also save search results to work on them later. Apple fans will love the fact that dupeGuru supports iPhoto and Aperture libraries and can manage iTunes libraries. When dupeGuru finds duplicates, a new window opens with reference files colored in blue and their duplicates listed below. The toolbar displays basic information, and you can see more about every file if you select it and click the “Details” button. You can manage duplicate files directly from dupeGuru – the “Actions” menu shows everything you can do. Select files by ticking the checkbox or clicking their name you can select all or multiple files using keyboard shortcuts (hold Shift/Ctrl and click on desired files). If you’re interested in differences between duplicate files, toggle Delta Values.
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