I have a enormous stack of images (>20000) that I use for presentations and so on.
I've organised them into categories so I can (relatively) easily find the image that I want.
Obvious each category has duplicates from other categories so that makes for a lot of wasted space. Yes, I could search by EXIF and/or IPTC info. but that means that I'll still have to go and fill out the fields on almost half of them.....
I've got a couple of nice apps that find identical files and another that finds similar photos (sorry Mixture! Do come back!) and can remove a duplicate file and replace it it with a soft link or a hard link as you will.
Almost all the photo files are stored in "My Pictures" with a few directories added to the "My Pictures" library.
What should I do? Seems a waste of disk space (not that I'm short of it) to have several copies of some pictures - (some have been a bit Photoshopped/GIMPed and are nor quite the same).
Any advice Guys and Gals?
Thanks
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