Remove duplicate photos and videos in MAC (tip)

I’m reluctant to render myself to the mercy of iCloud and iTunes, thus when syncing my photos from my mobile phone and others, sometimes I end up with plenty of duplicates… I’m trying to break free…

DupeGuru is a simple tool that does the job, allowing to find duplicates using file names and content, and then moving to a chosen location, delete, etc.

dupeGuru is a tool to find duplicate files on your computer. It can scan either filenames or contents. The filename scan features a fuzzy matching algorithm that can find duplicate filenames even when they are not exactly the same. dupeGuru runs on Mac OS X and Linux.

Drawback: probably you need to run the scan twice to really get all files, as I was first running to find images only, some extensions (and its spelling variations) were not picked up properly - probably it is better just to run for general files to begin with.

I sorted out 2.78GB of duplicated files (2.418 roughly) out of 9GB total in less than half-hour (MacBook Pro).