You’ll want to gather all of your old drives (external and jump drives), DVDs and old computers together. We’d rather you go through the process of properly organizing your digital photos once and for all.įor this blog, I am giving the very basic directions on how to organize photos within your computer’s file system (Windows Explorer for PC Finder for Mac.) We have a 100 page book on how to organize photos with Windows 10 available on Amazon if you need more in-depth screenshots and diagrams. If you suspect you have many duplicates of digital photos, the real question is “How do I organize my digital photos?” After all, how can you know which of your duplicates to keep if you have dozens of folders containing the duplicates. We caution you to go this route before considering a broader question. Some of the software is free and others need to be purchased. You can download software that will search and find duplicate photos as well as other files. There are solutions to simply find the duplicate photos in your digital collection. To find the duplicates truly is a daunting task! Let’s Reframe the Question When you add in old jump drives and DVDs, the mess seems even more overwhelming. And, of course time flies, so she had ten years of accumulated drives and computers. She had no idea which were the original digital photos. Each time she purchased a new computer, she would copy her pictures folder to the new computer as well as back-up her old photos.Īs time passed of course, she created new folders for collages of photos and older folders were moved around.

Just this past week, we had a client pondering how she would find duplicate photos on her old hard drives and old computers.

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