Duplicate Photos Fixer is a software available for Windows, Mac and Android users. It is mainly used to de-clutter a user’s photo collection and reclaim storage space wasted by unwanted identical files.
Duplicate Photo Fixer offers Exact Scan and Similar Picture Scan methods. Exact scan finds all identical images with no differences of any kind. Similar picture scan finds all similar-looking images and images that are nearly identical. Similar match is your best bet if you’re looking to detect photographs that are resized or altered. The software supports both internal (hard disk or SSD) and external storage mediums (USB stick, external hard disk). The program offers ability to manually mark or un-mark duplicates in addition to automatic selection patterns using Auto-Mark Duplicates button.
The Problem
Many users complained in forums that the software fails to identify duplicates that were clicked within a timespan of 24 hours. If you’re encountering the same issue, you might want to try PictureEcho for good.
Jst like Duplicate Photo Fixer, PictureEcho offers two scan methods- Exact Match and Similar Match. Furthermore, PictureEcho allows users to customize the similar match levels based on their requirement. For example: If you’re a professional photographer, you might have taken a large chunk of photographs and chances are that you’ve a lot of nearly-identical duplicates. You can customize the similar match levels to derive best results and free-up maximum storage.
What Are Similar Match Levels In PictureEcho?
PE offers four Similar Match levels. They are as follows:
- Level 1: This level takes into consideration photographs that were taken within 30 seconds duration. This level has potential to find a considerable number of nearly the same duplicate images.
- Level 2: The second level increases the timespan to 1 minute. This level has the potential to find a lot of duplicate photos.
- Level 3: This level takes 60 minutes duration into consideration and can find most duplicates.
- Level 4: This level doesn’t take any timespan into consideration. Please bear in mind to review all the results. Do not blindly take action when using this method.
When you’re done searching duplicates, PictureEcho will display basic information about each file with an image thumbnail. You can open file properties, containing folders, and even clear results and start scan afresh. To make it easier for you to identify duplicates, they are classified into groups.
PE is powered with amazing batch selection patterns to help you deal with too many files without having to review each file yourself. For example, you can batch-select all newest and oldest files in each duplicate group. Similarly, you can select bigger and smaller files in each group, most modified and least modified files, high-resolution and low-resolution images in each group. Select files by location option allows users to mark or unmark files located into a specific directory.
Once you’re done selecting your files, you’ll want to choose one of the options- Permanent Delete and Move to Folder. You can use the latter to move all images to another folder to review them at a later point of time.