KHE (Posts about photos)

Culling Duplicate Photos with rmlint

Kenneth H. East — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 05:00:00 GMT

I have twenty-five years worth of old personal hard drives that I wish to scour for photos and videos that should be preserved prior to destroying the drives. In searching for tools to assist me in this effort, I ran across rmlint¹, fim², and fdupes³.

Using FIM for Duplicate Photo Detection

Kenneth H. East — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 17:52:27 GMT

I recently discovered FIM (File Integrity Manager), which is intended as a tool for managing changes to photos. It is primarily intended to detect corruption in photos stored on disk, but it also offers the ability to detect duplicate photos, which is what attracted me to it. These are my notes on using it as a duplicate detector.