Using Adobe Photoshop Elements entails playing with images all around.
This means the creates, edits, processes and saves a whole lot of images than an average user does, which leads to a much higher probability of the creation as well as accumulation of duplicate images. And this is precisely what we’re out to address today, erasing duplicate JPEG files in Adobe Photoshop Elements.
While using Adobe Photoshop Elements, users are often faced with the problem of duplicate images in the organizer window of Adobe Photoshop Elements. Due to this situation, many users are left with no option but to manually delete all duplicate files after having searched them. This is bound to be an extremely laborious process which can even lead to accidental deletion of data.
Thankfully, this issue has been fixed in the Photoshop Elements latest [10th] release. The developers have now added a new button to the organizer window that searches for duplicate files and separates them into groups so that users can easily delete them.
This greatly improves the workflow, recovers invaluable storage space as well as improving the overall performance of the system.
Cleaning up duplicates with the help of a software program is an extremely efficient method to rid of JPEG duplicates in Adobe Photoshop Elements. This method helps save your time and energy as you can just sit back and the software will take care of the rest. The only pre-requisite is that the software you’re trusting with doing the job must be a really good one, like Clone Files Checker.
Get rid of duplicate JPEG files in Adobe Photoshop Elements
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Find Duplicates in Photoshop Elements
- Open up the Adobe Photoshop Elements organizer window.
- Make sure that no search is applied and that all the files in the catalog are clearly visible.
- Now click the Search dropdown menu so that all the options are revealed.
- You will find the Duplicate Photo Search option at the bottom of the list, select it.
Selecting the Duplicate Photo Search option - All the duplicate files will be shown in a grouped manner. You can either select all of them and choose either to simply delete or move them to a folder of your choice.
- The exact same action can also be done in the Visually Similar Photo Search section of Photoshop Elements. Just click the Stack button and it will automatically stack all the duplicates.
- To see the list of stacked files, go to the Find menu and click Show all Stacks.
How the Organizer of Adobe Photoshop Elements Works?
The Photoshop Elements software doesn’t have its own directory to store images. Therefore, all the images available in the Photoshop Elements organizer will be fetched from your computer system. And, this can only mean that the photos have already been duplicated.
How to Delete Duplicate Image Files from Photoshop Elements without the organizer?
Suppose if you can’t install the latest version of Photoshop Elements due to some reason or don’t want to install as you’re more comfortable with the older version and how it works. In this case, you might wonder you’ve deprived yourself of the in-house feature to purge duplicates. Well here is what you can do in such a scenario.
Remove Duplicate Image Files using Clone Files Checker
Simply download and install Clone Files Checker. This software program offers a very intuitive method to scan deep inside the hash of each and every single suspect file. This means you’re going way past the conventional style of looking for duplicate files by checking their file names and maybe file size. The super smart algorithms will even detect those duplicate files that are absolutely identical in nature but they’re being thought of us different files just because they’re named differently.
Getting back to the scan, simply select up the folders/ drives you suspect to be containing any duplicate images from the Select drive/folder section. (screenshot is given below).
Next, simply hit Start Search without any further ado and sit back while Clone Files Checker looks deep into all the suspect areas and unearths all the duplicate image truths.
Once the scan is over, you will be presented with the scan results. You can opt to simply delete all the duplicate images altogether or move them to a specific folder so that you can fall back on them in the future if the need arises.
The neat thing here is that even if you opt to permanently delete the duplicate images, you can still create an insurance policy of sorts against accidental deletion. Just select the checkmark for Enable Backup option in the Preferences tab of the Settings section, and this will create a backup of every single image (or file) you delete by using Clone Files Checker from then onwards!
Final Word
Both the solutions are a great way to find duplicate files on your computer so that they don’t interfere with your actual work inside Photoshop elements. But if you haven’t installed the latest version of Photoshop Elements, in that case you can bank on the goodness of Clone Files Checker to do the trick for you.