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My hard drive crashed on my Power Book but I was able to save over 21000 photos, by sending it to a company that pulled them off the bad drive. I have them in in 19 different folders of about 1000 each (plus or minus a few). Many of these photos are dupes many times over due to thumbnails and such. All the photos now have the same date of Dec 21, 2008 on them. What I would like to do is locate software that can scan the photos and list which photos are dupes. I seen the same photos many different times but they all had a different "JPG" name/number and are different in size from 4K to 1.25meg. Is there any software out there that can scan photos and put the dupes together? Thanks for any suggestion.. and yes I know that I should have backed up LOL
---warren

warren
Folks have had good experiences with Duplicate Annihilator.
Regards
TD

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