Maximize Your Device’s Performance by Removing Duplicate Photos
Have you ever thought that if your computer has started to slow down, it could be because of duplicate photos? Yes, you heard us right. In the effort to get that one perfect shot, we often click several others. This leads to the accumulation of photos that are either exactly the same or have certain variations. Furthermore, we tend to dump all the photos into our devices.
But, how do duplicate photos impact a device’s performance?
When your device, for example, your computer, has to take care of duplicate photos, it puts additional pressure on the computer’s resources. This further can lead to –
- Applications crash every now and then.
- The computer takes a lot of time to load.
- Slow PC performance or delay times.
- Computer freezing.
How To Enhance Device Performance By Getting Rid of Duplicate Photos?
Here we are going to discuss some of the best ways to delete duplicate photos from a computer safely. We’ll try and make sure that you don’t delete the right photo in an effort to get rid of the duplicate.
Method No. 1 – Deleting Duplicate Photos With File Explorer
This might be slightly tedious and time taking, but it can help you remove duplicate photos –
Step 1 – Open the File Explorer.
Step 2 – Go to the folder that you suspect contains duplicate photos.
Step 3 – Click on the View dropdown and select the Details and Details pane.
Step 4 – Click on the Sort dropdown and click on Name.
Step 5 – Watch closely if you see any image name prefixed with Copy of, or suffixed with a version number. This would imply that the image is a copy.
Once you have identified duplicate photos, delete them using the Shift + Delete operation. If you are unsure whether or not they are the right duplicate photos, you can transfer them to a secluded drive and analyze them later.
Method No. 2 – Use A Dedicated Software
The above method can be useful if you can spend some time filtering duplicate photos. But, what if you are dealing with hundreds and thousands of photos? First, manually identifying duplicates will be significantly tedious. Secondly, you may be at risk of deleting photos wrongly.
So, one of the best ways to delete duplicate photos is to use specialist software. Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro is one such software that can help you delete both exact as well as similar duplicate photos based on the content of the images.
First, let’s have a look at how you can get rid of all kinds of duplicate photos using Duplicate Photos Fixer on Windows –
How To Delete Duplicate Photos Using Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro?
Step 1 – Download Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro and run the installation file.
Step 2 – Open the application. Add individual photos or groups of photos to scan for duplicates.
Step 3 – Select a Comparison Method to narrow down the scan for duplicate photos.
Step 4 – Click on the Scan for Duplicates button at the bottom to initiate the scan process.
Step 5 – Once the process is finished, the duplicate photos will appear in groups.
Step 6 – Click on the Auto Mark option from the top to mark one duplicate in each group.
Step 7 – Review the photos and once you are sure that you have selected the correct duplicates for removing, click on Delete Marked.
Some notable features of Duplicate Photos Fixer –
– Delete exact and similar duplicate photos.
– Identified duplicate photos are grouped. You can auto-mark one duplicate photo in each group.
– In case of similar-looking photos, you can compare and narrow down your search for duplicate photos based on –
- Matching level
- Bitmap size
- Time interval
- Location (GPS).
- Include rotated and flipped images.
– Preview photos before deleting them.
– Check how much space you will be able to save after getting rid of duplicate images.
Method No.3 – Additional Ways Of Finding and Deleting Duplicate Files
Apart from using File Explorer, and software like Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro, let’s discuss 2 more ways in which you can identify and delete duplicate files.
- Use Windows PowerShell to Find and Remove Duplicate Photos
This step is aimed more towards those who are a little tech-savvy. Although, we’ve outlined the steps in a way that it can be used by users of all levels –
Step 1 – Press the Windows + X keys on your keyboard, and select Terminal (Admin) from the context menu.
Step 2 – In the PowerShell window, type – Get-ChildItem -Path “C:\Users\YourUsername\Pictures” -Recurse | Group-Object -Property Length | Where-Object { $_.Count -gt 1} | Select-Object
Here, replace YourUsername with your Windows username.
Step 3 – Review the results.
Step 4 – To delete the images, type Remove-Item and press Enter.
- Use Windows Photos To Delete Duplicate Pictures
Did you know that you can use the Photos app in your Windows PC to compare photos and remove duplicates? Here’s how –
Step 1 – Open the Photos app.
Step 2 – Click on the Sort icon and sort photos by date created, date modified, or date taken. During this process, you may come across duplicate photos.
Step 3 – Scroll through the pictures and review their similarity.
Step 4 – Once you have identified duplicate photos, select them, right-click, and select Delete.
Wrapping Up
Again, we’d like to advise you to use the manual ways of checking for duplicate photos when the quantity of photos is less and when you are not at risk of deleting some very important photos. Otherwise, you can leave the hard work to a specialist software.
In this post, we haven’t just discussed how duplicate photos can deteriorate the performance of your device, but we have also discussed the various ways in which you can delete duplicate images on your device. You can use the filters available on your device to find duplicates, use specialist software, or dive into the command line. Do let us know in the comments section below, which of the above methods would you use or recommend to eliminate duplicate photos on your device.
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