6shot Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 hi folks. is there a simple way i can delete double photos of my pc. we have got lots of double images on the pc from me being lazy. down loading and then not deleting images off the camera and so on. its using windows vista if that heips any help would be great. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
officerdibble777 Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 hold down the control key and left mouse click each photo you want to remove,when you have them all highlighted keep your pointer over one of them and then right click on your mouse, you should see a delete option in the pop up menu ,click delete hope this does it....john Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6shot Posted December 13, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 (edited) hi john. thanks for the quick response. but i was hoping there was away the pc could do it for me as i have got thousands of images to sort. thanks Edited December 13, 2010 by 6shot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
officerdibble777 Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 sorry mate thats the only way I can think of,can't think of any other way to delete multiples.It's a real pain when you let them build up.I can take hundreds at a time and narrow them down to a few dozen then move them to my external hard drive,it's all time, either at the time or now. Think your gonna be busy,good luck john Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6shot Posted December 13, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 (edited) thnks anyway john Edited December 13, 2010 by 6shot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkield Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 Move them all into one folder, then sort them by name - that will at least make finding the duplicates easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
otherwayup Posted December 13, 2010 Report Share Posted December 13, 2010 hi folks. is there a simple way i can delete double photos of my pc. we have got lots of double images on the pc from me being lazy. Do you mean you have several folders which contain photos and some of them are in more than one folder? If the duplicate copies in each folder are exactly the same (I.e. you don't have an original in one folder and an edited version with the same filename in another folder) then do this:- - Copy all the photos from each folder to another NEW "master" folder - When it tries to copy a duplicate it should say something like "Do you want to overwrite existing file" etc. I would say "No to all". - You should then have a "master" folder with a single copy of all files. - Backup the original folders to some external drive (just in case). - Delete the photos in the original folders. Backing up the original folders before you delete anything from them is the most important thing. Darren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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