Category Archives: Tutorials

Remove Missing Songs From iTunes

Remove iTunes Missing Songs
05

Oct

How to Remove Missing Tracks From iTunes

If you have moved your audio files or have deleted songs outside of the iTunes application you have probably ended up with missing tracks in your iTunes library. Surely, if you have altered just a few files it is easy to find and remove them. However, if you have reorganized many files it gets difficult to identify and remove them. That is especially true if you have a large audio collection. There are many applications that can do this for you, but those are paid and not worth the money for something that you will need once or twice. Certainly, you can find and delete all of the missing songs in your iTunes library without using any apps or having to pay. Continue reading →

Find Duplicate RAW – Compare RAW and JPG Photos

Find Duplicate RAW
09

Jan

Find duplicate RAW Photos by comparing RAW to JPEG, DNG, TIFF, HEIC/HEIF, or any other image format. Compare and find duplicates in all common RAW digital camera image formats – Camera RAW – CRW, CR2, CR3, NEF, RAW, PEF, RAF, X3F, BAY, RF, SRF, MRW, DCR, SR2, DNF, ERF, MEF, ARW and many more. Our duplicate photo finder “LOOKS” at your photos in order to find similarities like a real human would do.

The new version provides also a Photo Search feature that will find similar images by a sample – Reverse Image Search. Download now and solve the issue of useless duplicate photos. Organize your RAW image libraries instantly. Continue reading →

Find & Remove Duplicate Songs – Audio Dedupe 4.6.0.1

Duplicate MP3 Finder
10

Dec

Remove duplicate songs and save valuable disk space. Delete annoying repeating audio tracks from your playlist. Audio Dedupe “Listens” to your songs in order to find similar and repeating tracks. The tool compares the songs – not the file data as standard duplicate file finders do.  There is no need for the songs to have any ID3 tags for the tool to work as it analyzes the actual sound. Nevertheless, You can also find similar songs by Title, Artist, and Album. There is an option to specify similarity when searching for ID3 Tags too. Set the similarity to 100% to find only exact matches. Continue reading →

Print Folder Tree

Print Folder Sizes
01

Nov

Print folder tree and folder sizes to printer or pdf file. Folder Size was already providing many options to export the folders and print their content but was missing an option to print the folder tree which is located on the left side of the application. The latest version provides an option to print folder tree. Continue reading →

Find Similar PSD Files – Delete Duplicate Images in Adobe Photoshop

Free Web Gallery Builder
27

Feb

Find Similar PSD Files

Find Similar and Duplicate PSD Files

How to Find Similar PSD Files or Duplicate Photo Files

Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder will find similar PSD files and also compare them with any other image format. It provides support for over 40 popular image formats and also 300 RAW camera formats. This of course includes the popular *.psd file format. VSDIF “looks” at your photos in order to find similarities. This is not just a standard duplicate file finder. Continue reading →

Duplicate File Finder – How to Filter Files and Folders

24

Jul

Free Duplicate File Finder

Duplicate File Finder

Duplicate File Finder – How to Filter Files and Folders When Searching For Duplicate Files

When looking for duplicates it is sometimes necessary to filter the results by file type, folder location, file attributes like date or size, file name and other properties – this is possible using the filtering functionality inside Duplicate File Finder.

The filtering settings should be applied prior to starting a scan. This can lead to a much quicker scan if one is interested only in certain file types or locations.

There are plenty of filtering options that can be applied, inside Fast Duplicate File Finder.

Enabling and disabling the filtering option when searching for duplicate files

The filter button is a two state button at the top of the application represented with a funnel icon. When it is off pressing the button will display the filtering options.

  • If the options are applied using the OK button the filtering tool button will stay pressed denoting that filtering is applied.
  • If the filtering dialog is canceled the filtering tool button will remain unpressed denoting that no filtering is applied.
  • If the filtering tool button is pressed, pressing the button for the second time will disable the filtering and the tool button will go up.

Pressing the button for the second time, when it is in its unpressed state will display the filtering window where the last filter can be edited and applied.

 

Find Duplicate Files - Filter Duplicate Files

Duplicate File Finder Filtering Options

Including or Excluding Matches From Duplicate Search

At the bottom of the filtering dialog there is an option that determines whether the items matched by the filtering options will be included or excluded from the results.

Filtering Duplicates By Folder

The folders pane can be used in order to filter the duplicates by location. There are button at the bottom to add or remove folders. The remove button works on the currently selected item.

Filtering Duplicate Files By Type – File Extension

The File Extensions panel provides options to filter files by type. Extensions in format *.ext (asterisk dot extension) can be added in the list. Use the check-boxes in the list in order to toggle file types on or off. The unused (unchecked) items will be removed automatically when the application is restarted.

Filtering Duplicates By File Attributes – File Date, File Size and File Name

The File Attributes panel provides options to filter duplicates by certain file properties. Using the File Size Bigger Than and File Size Smaller Than options in combination with the global Exclude/Include option can search for duplicates inside or outside a certain file size range.

The same applies for the date range and files older, newer or inside/outside a certain period of time can be included or excluded in the results.

There is also an option to filter the files by name which also supports the standard file name wildcards – asterisk that denotes multiple characters or question mark that denotes a single character. For example A*LOT?OF* – will match all files starting with A followed by some other characters then containing LOT followed by a single character that is followed by OF which is followed by any number of other character. Another example is Copy of * – this will match all files that start with “Copy of” and so on.

Using the filter is straightforward and provides a lot of flexibility. Setup the filter options and make sure tho apply them using the OK button in the filtering dialog. The filtering tool bar button will stay pressed (the one with the funnel icon) denoting that the filtering is active. Once the filtering is enabled start the scan to search for the duplicate files that match the filter options.

How To Compare Folders For Duplicates

If the above filtering options are not sufficient there are options to Exclude Folders From Auto-Check and Exclude Folders From Self-Scan. Those will let you compare folders easily.

Take a look at Duplicate Photo Finder and Duplicate Songs Finder for dedicated tools. This small article can be useful in order to chose a duplicated finder.

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How to Organize Images?

18

Apr

How to Organize Digital Images and Photos

The issue behind organizing images

Nowadays most users have thousands of images and while organizing few hundred images may not be so difficult it is a headache to organize thousands or even hundreds of thousands photos. Luckily Visual Similarity Duplicate Image Finder (VSDIF) can help with this task. There is a free download available at the product’s web site so you can download and test the tool before placing an order. VSDIF is the best tool for finding duplicate photos.

Quick tutorial on how to organize images (for novice users)

Once you download and install the duplicate image finder all you need to do is to create a new project and add the folders to be scanned.

Duplicate Image Finder

Duplicate Image Finder

Click the New Project button to create a new project. A dialog box will pop-up automatically where you have to select the folder where the images are located. The selected folder will appear in the folders list panel on the right.  If you have photos in different locations just use the “Add Folder” (1) button to add more folders.

Some important notes for novice users:

  • Add only the folders with you own photo collections – not your entire drives.  If you add your entire drive all the images that are duplicates will be listed. This means that these results will include images also from applications and from the operating system. Some of those images are intentionally duplicated so deleting them may lead to malfunction in your applications or operating system.

Once the folders are added select the scan method.

Find the Exact Duplicate Images First

Before running a “Visual Compare” use the “100% Identical Files” mode. It is much faster and will list exact duplicates.This will help you to quickly get rid of the exact duplicate files and will reduce the amount of images that will be scanned using the slower “Visual Compare” method.

Find Similar Images

The default scan method is “Visual Compare” at 95%. Usually this should work best for you and we do not recommend lowering the value below 90% as it will lead to false positives. The levels below 90% can be used by advanced users for certain special types of scans.

Review Duplicate Image Results

Once the tool completes the scan it will list all similar or duplicate images and group them by similarity. Name, path, properties and similarity are listed for ever image in the duplicates grid. The groups are listed in alternating colors for better readability and the group number that the image belongs to is listed on the right.

Mark Duplicate Images for Deleting

Use the “Auto Check” panel in the bottom left corner to mark files automatically. By default it will mark files with smaller dimension and files size meaning that it will keep the images with the best quality. You can change these settings via the check-boxes and the advanced button in this section. Auto-Check will select all images in a group except ONE – the image that will be kept depends on the above settings.

Some important notes for novice users:

  • Always review the results before deleting or use the MOVE option and make a backup before deciding whether to delete the files permanently or not .

There are plenty of shortcuts in VSDIF that will make things easier while reviewing duplicates. You can use Space Bar for example in order to check/un-check an image. Take a look at the help file for complete list of shortcuts.

Delete Duplicate Images

You can delete duplicates manually or automatically. Using the “DEL” key you can delete the currently selected image.

Some important notes for novice users:

  • Use the delete functionality inside VSDIF to delete images. If you have scanned some folders and then later manually remove folders or images using Windows Explorer you will get “Not Found” message inside VSDIF for the missing items as they are no longer present at the location that was available during the scan process.

Once you have reviewed the results and marked the images that you want to remove you have several options. You can move the files to a backup folder before deciding whether to delete the permanently or not. The other option is to delete the file to Recycle Bin from where you can restore them if you have deleted something by mistake. The third options is to PERMANENTLY delete the files. You have to be 100% sure before using this option as there is no way of recovering the deleted files.

Final Words:

This is a very basic tutorial on how to get rid of duplicate photos and organize an image collection. You can find an Advanced Tutorial on How To Remove Duplicate Images here.

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