Originally posted by JimWall:
I've been looking for a program to find duplicate image files, there's one called Pixo, but that seems to have stopped working in the latest OSX releases and the developers website doesn't offer a way to contact him. A search on google finds several for Windows, one for linux and none for Mac. With the emphasis on graphics on the Mac I find this to be surprising. Does anyone have any help?
I don't know of a program that does that specifically, but a program I wrote should allow you to do that pretty easily.
Its called Meta (available at
http://fugu13.net/Meta.dmg ,
http://fugu13.net/Metapic.jpg for a screenshot, the downloads will only be there a few days as I'm moving servers soon), and its an image navigation app. It is still in beta, but it doesn't do anything that is able to harm your computer. It never alters your image files at all (it merely reads them).
Basically, you give it (in Preferences) an image folder to be its root folder, and then it loads all images in that folder (and its subfolders) into a view (a flat view, so no need to check all the subdirectories yourself).
You could check for duplicate images in a few ways. If the images will have the same name, just sort by name and take a look. If they won't have the same name, sort by size, though this will be hampered if there are many images of the same size. If the images will have similar but different names, you can search for some words that would be in both images' names, then sort from there.
Its far from a perfect way of finding duplicate images (I'll add a way to automatically check in the next release), but it should work in some situations.
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