Photostick
Oct 8, 2018 02:02:09 #
I have messed up my computer with photos in various places and with duplicates. I read about the Photostick finding photos in all folders, gathering them and deleting duplicates and saving everything on a thumb drive. Has anyone purchased one of these thumb drives and if so did it complete the task of deleting duplicates and saving all the rest. Many thanks for your input.
Oct 8, 2018 03:37:40 #
Michaele wrote:
I have messed up my computer with photos in various places and with duplicates. I read about the Photostick finding photos in all folders, gathering them and deleting duplicates and saving everything on a thumb drive. Has anyone purchased one of these thumb drives and if so did it complete the task of deleting duplicates and saving all the rest. Many thanks for your input.
Does it find duplicate files with different names? Can it differentiate different edits of a image (files) that are different and reside in different folders? Things that might need to me manually checked before you delete supposed dupes. Say, my computer HDD may contain many files named "Flower 0024" if say I were using them where I edited out the date that usually precedes the name of each of my initial Raw files.
Oct 8, 2018 05:35:12 #
I don't think it's for finding duplicates; it's just an automated back up stick. It finds image and video files and backs them up so that you can zap the files on your machine. I got one for my wife for her phone and it works for doing that.
Oct 9, 2018 08:47:56 #
I use Photostick and it does not backup the duplicate photos. For example i have photos saved in my Paint Shop Pro program and also saved in Windows Picture library but only 1 is backed up to the flash drive.
Oct 9, 2018 08:57:21 #
Michaele wrote:
I have messed up my computer with photos in various places and with duplicates. I read about the Photostick finding photos in all folders, gathering them and deleting duplicates and saving everything on a thumb drive. Has anyone purchased one of these thumb drives and if so did it complete the task of deleting duplicates and saving all the rest. Many thanks for your input.
Someone asked the same question a couple of weeks ago. The replies were generally not in favor of it. It's very easy to find all JPEG files. I use a free program called Everything, and it does a great job of finding whatever I want. One problem with JPEGs is that programs use images, and the PhotoStick will most likely find them, too. I just did a search for jpg, and it turned up thousands, including the one below from Adobe.
Oct 9, 2018 11:47:52 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Someone asked the same question a couple of weeks ago. The replies were generally not in favor of it. It's very easy to find all JPEG files. I use a free program called Everything, and it does a great job of finding whatever I want. One problem with JPEGs is that programs use images, and the PhotoStick will most likely find them, too. I just did a search for jpg, and it turned up thousands, including the one below from Adobe.
It depends on how techie you are and your tolerance for messing with the computer or phone.
In my wife's case, the answer is; no tolerance and no tech knowledge, so plugging in a stick and pushing the "save my pictures!" button and pulling the stick out was a great solution.
Oct 9, 2018 12:04:58 #
Since I use Lightroom for processing, including my jpgs taken before I started shooting RAW, using a utility that deletes images willy nilly seems like asking for trouble. I'd rather control the deletion. File Explorer can find and sort all my jpgs if I'm worried about dups, and I can delete true dups then.
Oct 10, 2018 11:02:52 #
I use voidtools.com's Everything for searching and drag&drop the results to TeraCopy to copy or move as it does checksums on the copied/moved files (check the verify option).
For duplicate checks, I use Heatsoft clone cleaner. I have the paid version which does multiple disks, but the free lite version will check a single drive and subfolders. I like the auto mark feature (specify a "keep" folder and dups in other folders automatically marked for deletion). Groups nicely delimited. Click on the full clones column for full dups.
So, find and copy files to destination HDD, then find and delete the clones on this destination drive (leave originals alone, HDD's cheap).
For duplicate checks, I use Heatsoft clone cleaner. I have the paid version which does multiple disks, but the free lite version will check a single drive and subfolders. I like the auto mark feature (specify a "keep" folder and dups in other folders automatically marked for deletion). Groups nicely delimited. Click on the full clones column for full dups.
So, find and copy files to destination HDD, then find and delete the clones on this destination drive (leave originals alone, HDD's cheap).
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