Last week, my friend had to go on a business visit to another country. When he was just about to leave, he found there was very little space available in his Passport drive! The whole drive was filled with useless photos that he had taken on his last visit.
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He had to spend three hours just to clean his My Passport drive just to make it ready for the next trip. Thankfully, he made it just in time to the airport.
Coming back to our story, duplicate photos can sometimes become a huge mess, waste your time, and frustrate you to no end. So, in this post, we will discuss how one can easily remove duplicate photos from a Passport drive without wasting long hours and going through the excruciating pain of manually checking each picture.
Let’s consider it for a second. What options do you have when it comes to removing duplicate photos from the Passport drive? Not many, right? We have made a list of the best ways that will enable you to remove duplicate photos from your Passport drive without having to worry about any aspect at all.
With that said, let’s see what options we have available.
Solutions to Remove Duplicate Photos from My Passport Drive
- Manual Removal of Duplicates
The first step is pretty obvious. You can go the manual route while cleaning up all the duplicate photos from your Passport drive. This will include all the photos in the main drive as well as all the folders that are included. Although this is a time-consuming process, it is the route that you can afford to take if there aren’t many duplicate photos involved in the job.
- Google Photos
Google Photos is renowned for backing up a huge number of photos but do you know that it also offers duplicate removal feature? The feature works whenever you add two identical photos to the same album. Google Photos will retain the older one and prevent you from uploading any newer copies of it.Simply copy the whole Passport drive data or the folders where you think duplicate photos exist and dump them in Google Photos.Note: You can add an unlimited number of photos to Google Photos by opting to upload High-Quality images instead of the original ones.
Once all the duplicate photos have been removed, simply download the photos back to your Passport drive. Congratulations! Now you have a duplicate-free Passport drive at your disposal.
- Software to Remove Duplicates – PictureEcho
There has got to be a decent, easy-to-use, yet affordable solution to help tackle duplicate photos without any limitations at all. This problem has been answered by PictureEcho, which is articulate enough to help you easily get rid of all duplicate photos in your Passport drive without burdening you at all.
Why PictureEcho?
- PictureEcho is free. It has a paid version for users who have duplicate photos in bulk.
- It offers a simple UI to remove all duplicate photos from the Passport drive (and other locations of your choice!).
- It can also work with a bulk amount of folders. So, you only have to provide the path names and it will find duplicates automatically.
- It can remove duplicates permanently as well as move them to another folder.
Let’s see how Picture Echo can help users find duplicate photos from the Passport drive.
PictureEcho is fairly easy to understand. First of all, add a path of the folder where you fear duplicate photos exist. Once you are done with that, select the Exact Match option.
Why? Because if you select similar images, PictureEcho will come up with results for all the images that can be categorized as similar, which is vastly different from a duplicate or an identical image.
- Download and install the program.
- Launch PictureEcho and add up the Passport drive via the Add Path button.
- Select the Exact Match radio box and then hit Start Search to launch the scan.
Launching the scan - Once the scan is over, (which it will, very soon), you will be viewing all the duplicates listed out in the user interface. The footer will be displaying handy info like the number of duplicates detected as well as the storage space they’ve been eating off your Passport drive.
- All that is left to be done in 2 simple steps. Click the Select Duplicates button in the footer to select the type of duplicate you want to retain (from each duplicate group).
- Finally, click Select Action and opt for Permanent Delete.
As you can see, the software has easily purged duplicate photos from all corners of the Passport drive in a flash. The whole process saves time as well as most importantly, your invaluable storage space in the Passport drive.
Which Method Works Best?
All the methods that we have described above will work well. You can either go the manual way or use a software program to make the task easier and simple. PictureEcho will not only help you speed up things, but it will also deliver results. Try it out once and forget about any duplicate photos creeping up the My Passport drive for good.
