This is such an awesome program that I feel bad asking for more, but one of the first tools I looked for was a duplicate image finder. I often find that I will end up with duplicate images in the same folder (or different folders) with different names. One of my favorite tools of other programs is the ability to find all duplicates and then choose what to do with them (delete all but one(my choice which), or keep them). The ones I've seen have given the choice of searching a single directory, a single directory with subdirectories, or you can even choose multiple directories (with or without the subdirectories). The algorithm to implement this should not be difficult. I would imagine it would start with a file size comparison, then an image dimension comparision for identical files sizes, then a bit by bit comparison for anything that passed the first two tests.
Just something from my wish list, you do awesome work. Keep it up.
-Technomancer
Requested Tool/Feature: Duplicate Finder
Moderators: XnTriq, helmut, xnview
Thank you for your (first) suggestion. A duplicate finder can be really a valuable thing and should become part of XnView. The charme of the duplicate finder is that it provides functionality without having much impact on other areas of XnView, it's almost full autarkic.
XnView DeLuxe built in a duplicate finder, already, so it might not be too far future that it makes it into XnView.
Please see following topics for more information:
- What is XnView DeLuxe?
- Deluxe is dead, Hourra for XnView
- What do you want in the Next Version of XnView?
XnView DeLuxe built in a duplicate finder, already, so it might not be too far future that it makes it into XnView.
Please see following topics for more information:
- What is XnView DeLuxe?
- Deluxe is dead, Hourra for XnView
- What do you want in the Next Version of XnView?
I didn't find more information on that feature. Is it dumb (100% binary identical) or medium intelligent (same pic in different formats/sizes/rotations/...) or really intelligent (recognizing multiple fotos taken with slightly different settings/angle/sun&shadow/...)?helmut wrote:XnView DeLuxe built in a duplicate finder, already, so it might not be too far future that it makes it into XnView.
I was checking out several image dupes finder, either extremely poor UI and workflow or no diverse settings or simply so dump they do not help. Thus my interest in the XnView Deluxe handling... Thanks, Georg
If you are interested, you should try 1.90 Alpha. Its 'Find Similar files' is quite good, already:
- based on Filename or file data(CRC) for exact copies
- based on Picture content (% similarity) for intelligent matching
Moreover, there is probably room for improvements, if you find some suggestions...
- based on Filename or file data(CRC) for exact copies
- based on Picture content (% similarity) for intelligent matching
Moreover, there is probably room for improvements, if you find some suggestions...
Olivier
Thanks for the 1.90 Alpha hint, I just gave it a try. My suggestion can be found at http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?p=37203#37203 (wanted to post in the right forum, as the suggestion only relates to that alpha version)
/Georg
/Georg