Identifies and deletes duplicates from file system very well.

PhotoSweeper

I bought PhotoSweeper (version 2.2.2 (2022)) because I have thousands of duplicate photos caused by various imports over the past 15 years of taking digital pictures. I use Adobe Lightroom (version 5 as I don’t like the cloud features in version 6). I prefer the Lightroom method for storing files directly in the file system and not in an application specific container. I was just looking for a program that can identify duplicate photos with different files name (caused by different imports).

In order to ensure PhotoSweeper worked as expected, I copied a folder of about 300 photos to my desktop. I dragged the folder into the PhotoSweeper window then selected compare. The application clearly showed which were duplicates and easily allowed me to visually confirm they *were* duplicates before I “marked” them and then “Trash Marked”. I like that this application puts the photos into the trash so you could pull them out if you feel you made a mistake.

When I tried to find duplicates in a folder with 87 subfolders containing 4799 photos totaling 3.5 GB it was unable to render all of the photos. Note I selected “Duplicate Files” and Face-to-Face display but PhotoSweeper was unable to render all the photos so I was not able to visually confirm it did find duplicates. In an attempt to correct this I restarted the application and tried again. I got half 1/3 of the way thru this group of files but then the application would not render the images. From that point I reduced the number of photos I gave it to compare to about 1,000 or 2,000 and it worked without issue.

I highly recommend this application for anyone who wants to accomplish the type of deduping above. This application has other uses but I have not tried them.

Happy duplicate hunting.

cd1940 about PhotoSweeper, v2.2.2