Dedupe processing

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bsacco
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Dedupe processing

Post by bsacco »

Is it best to dedupe all your photos (2 million) across multiple folders (75) at once in ONE dedupe session?

Or is it best to do it just across just a few folders at a time, then add more folders to your search criteria as you go?
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DigitalVolcano
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Re: Dedupe processing

Post by DigitalVolcano »

It's really up to you. It's often easier to handle a smaller amount of inputs because there are less results to look through.

As said elsewhere - it's an iterative process where you can pick off the easy matches first (exact file copies, entire copied folders, etc) and then work towards similar, cropped, edited and different metadata files.

Please don't keep opening more new topics - you can append to your existing questions.
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