Remove photos, music and other files from your Mac with dupeGuru
A. PREVIEW dupeGuru enables you to place two photos side by side to check if they’re duplicates or to compare differences.
B. DELTA VALUES Tick this and the file list will highlight the differences between a reference file and potential duplicates.
C. ZOOM CONTROLS Use these controls to see your two chosen photos up close. This makes it easier to spot any differences.
D. FILE DETAILS This panel provides a more detailed comparison between your two selected files in terms of attributes.
REQUIRES dupeGuru, macOS 10.12 or later
YOU WILL LEARN How to identify duplicate and similar files, plus delete unwanted copies
IT WILL TAKE 15 minutes
SEARCH MUSIC FILES BY TAG, FROM A CHOICE OF TRACK, ARTIST, ALBUM, TITLE, GENRE AND/OR YEAR
WHEN IT COMES to keeping your drive clean and clutter–free, duplicate files are a huge contributor to wasted space. But thanks to a free tool called dupeGuru (https://dupeguru.voltaicideas.net), identifying those files and removing them just got a whole lot easier. The tool doesn’t just identify exact duplicates, either — it can also identify any files with the same (or similar) content.
dupeGuru offers three search modes: Standard, Music and Picture. Both the Standard and Music modes can search by filename and content, while you can also include tags in searches for music files, enabling you to identify tracks stored in different formats, such as MP3 and FLAC. Just pick your mode, scan the type and click Options to refine the search.
You’ll also find universal preferences, such as the Filter Hardness slider, which performs “looser” searches to match similar — but not identical — files, as well as options related to the specific type of search you’re performing. For example, you can search music files by tag, and choose which ones to include from a choice of track, artist, album, title, genre and/or year.
FIND SIMILAR IMAGES
In this tutorial, we’re focusing on dupeGuru’s ability to bring order to your images. The step–by–step guide opposite reveals everything you need to know about scanning your Mac for photos — both exact duplicates and close matches. This will enable you to compare multiple attempts to capture the perfect shot, ensuring that you only keep the best ones for posterity. Let’s take a look.
HOW TO Identify and remove redundant photos
Select Picture under Application Mode and set the Scan Type to Contents. Click More Options to set the Filter Hardness to “95” and tick “Match pictures of different dimension
