Duplicate photo files occupy a lot of disk space and affect system speed and performance eventually. These duplicate photo files can be accumulated due to various reasons like file sharing, file downloading and due to other reasons. Removing these duplicate photo files from your system manually can be cumbersome job hence certain duplicate photo finder tools are advised. One such tool is Duplicate Photo Fixer Pro which is offered by Systweak Software. It is an effective tool to recover disk space by deleting all duplicate photos effortlessly.
How does it work?Step 1: Add Photos: Step one requires you to add a photos folder, a collection of photos or iPhoto libraries to the scanning list. To make it easy you can drag and drop the files to the scanning list. It will further scan the provided data for duplicate or similar looking photos.
Step 2: Set Matching Criteria: Step 2 asks you to determine the matching criteria for the scanning results. You need to set matching criteria from low to high to determine whether you are looking for similar photos or exact photos. You need to set few other criteria as well to improve the accuracy level of the search results.
Step 3: Scan Duplicate Photos: Once you have decided the folder or group of photos and set the matching criteria for search results next is to proceed the action by clicking on "Scan for Duplicated" button. It will initiate the scanning process and will display the results (duplicate or similar photos) based on your matching criteria in the groups.
Step 4: Delete Duplicates: This is the step to delete all duplicate/similar photos based on the results found. You can delete these duplicate/similar photo with a single click to free up some precious storage space. Following these simple steps, you can get rid of duplicate data in hassle free manner.
Features:
Drag-and-Drop folder/Photos: To save time and efforts you can simply drag-and-drop the files or folders to the scanning list. You can add photos from the iPhoto library and other folders as well.
Custom Comparison Settings: You can customize the comparison settings from the available methods by adjusting the settings as per your requirement irrespective of the image size or format.
Speed: It offer results quickly. It can scan and compare a large number of photos in few seconds time. It uses powerful algorithms to scan and search for duplicate photos on your system.
Real-time results: It is an effective app which offers real-time results for all the duplicate data on your system. You can re-group the comparison results without re-comparing photos by changing the matching level on the slider in real-time.
Auto-mark duplicates: It auto-marks the duplicate photos except one (preferably the best one) in each group in results. You can select the first or last photo of each group to retain it in your system.
Compact viewing: It segregates results in different groups which ultimately viewed as a large photos group in each line.
Quick look: You can use this feature to have a quick look over results before deleting any photo. This way you need not open each photo to view before deleting it.
Verdict: Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro is powerful yet easy to use tool which helps you reduce manual efforts of sifting through hundreds of duplicate and similar looking photos. It helps you find and delete duplicate photos in few simple steps to recover precious disk space.