![]() In my match example above, the photos are quite close and I’d be fine with keeping just one of them. The side by side comparison of matches is also quite useful to see if you want to remove photos that are not exact duplicates, but are close enough. While the program may seem like a use once application, I’ve run it a few times just to see if I missed anything. The process is quite simple and straightforward. Once you hit Trash Marked, PhotoSweeper opens Photos and moves the photos you marked to its own album and gives instructions on how to permanently remove the photos. The process takes awhile depending on the number of photos you are comparing, but most of the matches really are duplicates or close to being duplicates. You then walk through the groups of photos and select the ones to mark for deletion. I was amazed at the results as it found matches where the photos were scanned at different times, the color was different in them and sometimes the photos were cropped differently. The first time I ran it, I did a small sample just to see the results. The number of photos and your matching criteria determines how long the process will take. After you start, you see the blurred thumbnails of the photos as it goes through and does the comparisons. I selected a pretty loose matching criteria knowing that I would get a lot of matches. You then click Compare and select your options for comparison. In my case, I went ahead and selected all the photos. The first step in using PhotoSweeper is to select a bunch of photos. After a little while I stumbled upon PhotoSweeper and gave it a test drive. I knew that there were programs out there to find duplicates, so I started searching. ![]() The photos weren’t always of the same quality and I had to manually go through to pick the best one. Back in December when I was scanning in old photos, I found that I had some of the photos already in digital form leaving me with duplicates. ![]()
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