Searching for Duplicate Folders Task

Hi all,
I have A LOT of duplicate folders on my computer (a backup gone bad) and was wondering if anyone knows of any automator tasks (or how to create one) that will search for all the duplicate folders for me so that I can easily sort them out and delete what isn't needed?
A huge thanks in advance,
Stu

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How can I search for duplicate photos in iPhoto libraries?

How can I search for duplicate photos in iPhoto 9.5.1 library. Installed on iMac 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5, Mavericks 10.9.5.

These applications will identify and help remove duplicate photos from an iPhoto Library:
iPhoto Library Manager - $29.95
Duplicate Annihilator - $7.95 - only app able to detect duplicate thumbnail files or faces files when an iPhoto 8 or earlier library has been imported into another.
PhotoSweeper - $9.95 - This app can search by comparing the image's bitmaps or histograms thus finding duplicates with different file names and dates.
DeCloner - $19.95 - can find duplicates in iPhoto Libraries or in folders on the HD.
DupliFinder - $7 - shows which events the photos are in.
iPhoto AppleScript to Remove Duplicates - Free
PhotoDedupo - $4.99 (App Store) - this app has a "similar" search feature which is like PhotoSweeper's bitmap comparison. It found all duplicates
Duplicate Cleaner for iPhoto - free - was able to recognize the duplicated HDR and normal files from an iPhone shooting in HDR
Some users have reported that PhotoSweeper did the best in finding all of the dups in their library: iphoto has duplicated many photos, how...: Apple Support Communities.
If you have an iPhone and have it set to keep the normal photo when shooting HDR photos the two image files that are created will be duplicates in a manner of speaking (same image) but there are only twp apps that detected the iPhone HDR and normal photos as being duplicates: PhotoSweeper and Duplicate Cleaner for iPhoto. None of the other apps detected those two files as being duplicates as they look for file name as well as other attributes and the two files from the iPhone have different file names.
iPLM, however, is the best all around iPhoto utility as it can do so much more than just find duplicates. IMO it's a must have tool if using iPhoto.

Dealing with a ton of photos. Can you find/search for duplicates??

Hi,
I am trying to help my parents with merging photos from 5 different computers. They have several old pc's and now two new macs. Unfortunately they have about 10+ years of photos on these computers and many of the photos are duplicates. Virtually every photo is a long string of digits followed by .jpg. They are contained within about 400+ folders that quite frankly make little sense. I have copied all the photos from each computer onto one external hard drive.
Is there a way to search for duplicates within that many folders? Unfortunately, some of the cameras they used didn't have the correct date set and it is impossible to figure out when the photos were taken! Also they copied many photos into Iphoto and in the process made additional copies.
Augh!
Thanks for any help!
Gary

Hello Gary:
I rarely post +"me too"+ comments, but let me echo Matt's suggestion. I used duplicate annihilator with quite a bit of success myself when I imported a library from another computer.
Barry

Classic status flashes - searching for new folders

PB G4, 10.4.2, Classic set to launch at boot.
The Classic Status '9' in the menu bar sometimes flashes after booting. It's stop/restart options are greyed out. However Classic apps appear to run normally.
Going to Classic Preferences there is initially a comment 'searching for new folders'. Restarting Classic leads to normal Classic Status display.
Any ideas on what's happening, causes, cures, please?
Michael

Please note that it is not a workaround.
It is Thunderbird's built in functionality to display:
ALL unread mail in ALL folders in ALL Accounts
when you do not want to start opening folders and manually searching for which folders have the unread mail. It is the fastest simplest method of performing this task on all accounts symultaneously.
If you want to perform a search:
note that you can only perform a search on a per account basis so would have to repeat for each mail account. It is not the fastest nor most efficient method if you have more than one mail account, but it is another option.
* Edit > Find > Search Messages
* select the mail account
* Select 'search subfolders'
* Select: 'Match all of the following'
* Select: 'Status' and 'Isn't' and 'Read'.
* click on 'Search'

PSE10 Crashes when searching for duplicate photos

Hello,
I recently upgraded to PSE10 and imported my catalog from a different machine (which had been running XP). Unfortunately, I ended up with a bunch of duplicate entries in the catalog, one with the path c:\users\... the other with c:\my documents\... These paths both point to the same image on the hard drive.
When I try to Search for Duplicate Photos (from Find>By Visual Searches), PSE invariably crashes. I am running PSE10 under Windows 7 (full system info at the end of this message).
Any idea why this might be happening, and is there a different way I can remove the duplicate entries in the catalog?
Thanks,
Chris
Full system info:
Elements Organizer 10.0.0.0
Core Version: 10.0 (20110914.m.17521)
Language Version: 10.0 (20110914.m.17521)
Current Catalog:
Catalog Name: My Photos
Catalog Location: C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Elements Organizer\Catalogs\My Photos\
Catalog Size: 52.3MB
Catalog Cache Size: 391.7MB
System:
Operating System Name: Windows 7
Operating System Version: 6.1
System Architecture: Intel CPU Family:6 Model:5 Stepping:2 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP
Built-in Memory: 3.8GB
Free Memory: 705.3MB
Important Drivers / Plug-ins / Libraries:
Microsoft DirectX Version: 9.0
Apple QuickTime Version: Not installed
Adobe Reader Version: 10.1
Adobe Acrobat Version: Not installed
CD and DVD drives:
F: (hp DVDRAM BUS: 1 ID: 1 Firmware: GT20L)

If I understand well, what you are calling 'duplicates' are duplicate entries in the catalog, the same media being called either by its original path+filename or shortcut path+filename.
The organizer will try open two different files to compare them, but when trying to open the second 'shortcut', the file will be already blocked (in use). That could explain the failure of the comparison for similarity.
Try creating a new catalog with similar images, for instance jpegs and png copies. Does the visual search work ?
About backup and restore : If my supposition is right, that should work if you try to restore to a new custom location with keeping the file structure : the backup should create real file duplicates on different paths. If it works, finding visual duplicate should work, although this process may take a very long time.

Tell me Logic for search for duplicate words(or strings) in a large file.

Search for duplicate words (or strings) in a text file containing one word per line. For each word that occurs more than once in the flat file output should be as follows
<word> <number of occurrences> <line numbers in the file where the word occurs>
For example, if the word Hello occurs thrice in a file at lines 100, 178 and 3456 the output should read
Hello, 3, [100, 178, 3456]

Incidentally i wrote similar code some days back. You need to do some modifications to get the exact output you want, but i hope it will be of some help.
One more thing its written using JAVA5
public class Test
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}Cheers,
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Is it possible to search for multiple folders with the same name and...

Is it possible to search for multiple folders with the same name and then select them all and change the permissions on just those folders .i.e. Search for the budget folders in all client folders and lock them down to just the project managers. Without having to go to each folder and apply the permissions.

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Is it possible to clone a 11.2.0.2 database to 11.2.0.3 home location directly on a new server . If it starts in a upgrade mode , it is ok ....yes
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Can I search for duplicates in iPhoto 9.2.3?

I believe earlier versions had a "search for duplicates" function.

No, no earlier version did.
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No "search for Duplicates" found in address book

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Also, when I sync with .Mac it doubles up all of my entries in the libraries on both computers.
Any ideas?

AB search should search notes. quit Address book and delete the file homedirectory/library/application support/address book/AddressBook-v22.abcddb. then start Address Book and see if search works correctly now. if it doesn't reindex your hard drive with spotlight. add your hard drive to spotlight's privacy pane for a few seconds and then remove it from there. wait for reindexing to finish and try AB search again.

How to search for duplicate files?

Is there a quick and easy way to search for duplicate files? (and other space hogs) I would like to do some hard drive spring cleaning. Trying to free up some space. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Carl

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Is it possible to search for Duplicates in Aperture v3.1

Hi Guys,
I'm hoping you guys can help me,
I'm re-scanning my family photo archive at a much higher resolution,
and i can't seem to find a way of searching for duplicates of the same image, but at different resolutions.
i have achieved this in the past using "ExpressionMedia2" (previously called "iViewMediaPro"),
This program had a command to "Search for Similar",
with a slider to move from close match to exact match,
which was pretty accurate, no matter what size the images were.
I'm tempted to use this program,
but i'm not sure how Aperture will handle images that have been deleted by another program.
and how can i strip orphaned previews out of the Aperture Library ?
I'm new to Aperture, and like it's way of working,
but, it's very powerful and does have many un-intuitive commands within it
Hoping you guys can help me,
billy

Aperture has no in-library dupe detection. It only has it on import.
As for other apps deleting files from the Aperture library -- they shouldn't do that. If they are merely deleting a file at the Finder level ( that is referenced into AP), then that image will be marked as Missing in Aperture. You can do a Find for all those your self, or you can make a smart album, then delete at your convenience.

Searching for duplicates

In iTunes you can search for duplicates of a music file (easily). Can we do the same thing with an iMac using Leopard? If so, could someone please tell me how?
Cheers,
sws

I would probably not buy it if +all you want to do+ is search for duplicate files. If it's other capabilities are of use to you then maybe you might consider it. I bought SC6 way back in the day but as the OS and other utilities had matured I found that I had less and less use for it.
If for instance you only want to find duplicate photos then perhaps Duplicate Annihilator may be more appropriate?
Again, wait and maybe others will chime in, if not then google a term like 'find duplicates' and see what comes up.

Optimizing a search for duplicate files in a filesystem

We have a large directory that people have been dumping to for years (~200k files), and I want to go through and look for duplicate files. The first part of this was just scanning through and checking for duplicate file names. I wrote a simple VI to serarch for duplicates, but it is very inefficiant because of multiple string comparisons. Even optimized as much as I could think to do, I'm only scanning about 1k files / minute. I have attached my code - any help would be appreciated.
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search.vi ‏22 KB

This is trivial using the variant attributes mentioned earlier. Attached is my method which uses the Variant Repository XNode I developed. Not sure on performance comparisions.
EDIT: I'm betting the thing that will take the longest will be performing the MD5, I'm sure a CRC32 could be done faster which is probably just as good in this situation, or even a sum of the bytes of the file as a quick way of identifying the file.
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Find Duplicate Files.vi ‏23 KB

Search for Duplicates in a 2D Array

I am working on a program that takes a user input of a job number (imported as a string).
With that job number I need to search a .txt spreadsheet file for the job number and create a cluster of information based on the items in the same row as the job number. I originally accomplished this as shown:
This worked very well. That is, until my data file changed. Now my data file can possibly have a duplicate item as attached. The only difference between the two rows is that the second column has a smaller value. I cannot change how I receive my data. I always need to return the row that has the larger value in the second column.
The method I came up with is as shown:
This method seems to be a lot less efficient than the original method since it requires that even if the job number is the first item on the list, I must step through the entire list. The file I am working with is computer generated, so it will always be sorted by job number, but we cannot guarantee whether the first or the second or the third occurance of the item is going to be the longest.
Any thoughts on a more efficient method of handling this? I searched around and saw a posting that used variant data types to remove duplicate values from a 2D array. I tried to expand that to this application, but I wasn't able to follow the use of variants in that situation. This is the original posting I saw: http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Remove-Duplicate-Row-From-2d-Array/m-p/1211071/highlight/false#M5186...
Thanks,
Michael
Attachments:
nchcablejobs.txt ‏49 KB

here is one way to find all matches first and then you can add a fine search/separation if there is more than one match
depending on the size of the sorted array it might be faster if you search for the first match and than look if the next still matches ...
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Search for duplicate

hi there.
i am running though an issue with looking for duplicates.
right now. my vi is searching for the duplicate, once it is found, it will display "duplicate found".
i am facing a new problem. lets say i have 10 devices and 10 positions those devices goes into my test box.
position 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
the device that read position 0, and 2 is close to one another. so when a device is put into position 0, it can be read on position 2.
and 2 can be read on position 4,
and 4 can be read on position 6,
so then 1,3 --- and 3,5 ---- and 5,7
and so forth.
thats because the hardware i designed didn't take into that consideration.
so now i think its best to fix the software.
does anyone have an idea of how to get rid of the DUPLICATE if the position is 2 positions away?
i have created a vi that generated what i started.
Message Edited by krispiekream on 08-18-2008 06:00 PM
Best regards,
Krispiekream
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i think this is what i have in mind.
Message Edited by krispiekream on 08-18-2008 08:27 PM
Best regards,
Krispiekream
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