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PhotoPrism.app Landing Page
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PhotoPrism.app

PhotoPrism® is an AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web. It makes use of the latest technologies to tag and find pictures automatically without getting in your way. You can run it at home, on a private server, or in the cloud.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
#Open Source #Photo Organization #Automated Tagging 153 social mentions
Czkawka Landing Page

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Czkawka

Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc.

I recommend https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka for picture/video dedup, it can even search for similar things too.

#Hard Disk Usage #Hard Disk Management #Hard Drive Tools 171 social mentions
hashdeep Landing Page

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hashdeep

Cross-platform tools to computer hashes, or message digests, for any number of files while...

Started to be able to bring some order after I discovered hashdeep. Basically I started from a reasonably clean disk with folders to sort files, created lists of hashes using hashdeep, then used it to scan all my existing disks for unknown files. With the correct flags hashdeep can list all files it finds on a disk that it has not in its lists already. That help a lot to figure out what is worth wasting time on. It also is useful because every now and then that makes me realize the copy of some old file I have is broken (probably usually because it was stored on some CDROM that was no longer good).

#OS & Utilities #Data Integrity #Command Line Tools 6 social mentions
dupeGuru Landing Page
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dupeGuru

dupeGuru is a tool for finding duplicate files on your computer.
Pricing:
- Open Source
I have data from drives from the early 00’s. Use dupe guru, look for 100% matches and possibly find whole redundant file structures to delete. https://dupeguru.voltaicideas.net/. I’ve been chipping away at it for years, still not done. Also, trying to organize my data into priority tiers of backup importance.

#Hard Disk Usage #Hard Disk Management #Hard Drive Tools 71 social mentions