{"id":182,"date":"2018-05-31T10:13:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T10:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2025-11-24T10:42:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T10:42:51","slug":"identify-and-remove-visually-similar-duplicate-photos-in-google-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/identify-and-remove-visually-similar-duplicate-photos-in-google-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Identify and Remove Visually Similar Duplicate Photos in Google Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Capturing beautiful sceneries and important moments in our life is a lot easier than before, due to the availability of high-quality cameras in today\u2019s smartphones. Some people tend to capture images in quick succession, which leads to the piling up of several\/ many images of the same instance with minimal variation between the images.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Identifying such pictures manually is sure to take a tremendous amount of time, and sorting out the whole photo database into the good ones (to be retained) and the bad ones (to be removed) manually can mean a nightmare for all reasons. <\/span><\/p>\n

This is yet another instance where sophisticated usage of <\/span>Information Technology<\/b> comes to the user\u2019s rescue. However, this task can only be performed by a purpose-built software application that can easily identify visually similar<\/a> as well as duplicate photos. This article utilizes <\/span>PictureEcho<\/b> for identifying and removing visually similar duplicate images in <\/span>Google Drive<\/b> with the maximum possible degree of accuracy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Solution<\/b><\/h2>\n

This solution demonstrates how to get rid of visually similar photos from <\/span>Google Drive<\/b> with the help of <\/span>PictureEcho<\/b>. The user is required to be familiar with <\/span>Google Backup and Sync<\/b> desktop client.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Download<\/span><\/a> Backup and Sync<\/b> and install it. This platform is used to sync all the changes with <\/span>Google Drive<\/b> servers.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Login to your <\/span>Google<\/b> account through the application. This sets the sync process in motion and all the user data is synced from <\/span>Google Drive<\/b> to their computer.
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  3. Locate the three vertical dotted button and click it to open its menu. Next, click on <\/span>Preferences<\/b> to access the <\/span>Settings<\/b> window.
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    Opening up Preferences<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n
  4. Locate and select the <\/span>Google Drive<\/b> section. Select the checkbox for <\/span>Sync My Drive to this Computer<\/b>. Also, select the radio box for <\/span>Sync everything in My Drive<\/b>.
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  5. Download<\/span><\/a> and install <\/span>PictureEcho<\/b>.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Launch <\/span>PictureEcho<\/b>, and add <\/span>C:\\Users\\%username%\\Google Drive <\/b>via the <\/span>Add Path<\/b> button to the list of locations(s) to be scanned for visually similar images.
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    Adding up the Google Drive folder to be scanned<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n
  7. Next, select the radio box for <\/span>Similar Match<\/b>. Selecting the checkbox for <\/span>Show preview<\/b> is a neat idea as it leads to the photo previews shown to the user in the results section to better equip them on taking an appropriate decision.
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  8. Click the <\/span>Start Search<\/b> button to launch the scan to weed out visually similar images in <\/span>Google Drive<\/b>. The results are gathered quickly and appear in the user interface of <\/span>PictureEcho<\/b> fairly quickly.
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    Similar images detected!<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n
  9. Click the <\/span>Select Duplicates<\/b> button to choose between retaining the photos by the smallest, biggest, high resolution, low resolution, newest, oldest or by the location criteria (see the following screenshot).
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  10. Finally, click the <\/span>Select Action<\/b> button and go for either permanently deleting the unwanted photos or moving them to a folder you can specify.
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    The final step<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n
  11. Once the action selected in step # 10 is performed, <\/span>Backup & Sync<\/b> briskly springs into action and syncs the changes to <\/span>Google Drive<\/b> and hence, your <\/span>Google<\/b> cloud account is put into good shape to reflect the changes you just opted for.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That\u2019s it. This way you can easily and securely get rid of hundreds (and more) similar images on your <\/span>Google Drive<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Capturing beautiful sceneries and important moments in our life is a lot easier than before, due to the availability of high-quality cameras in today\u2019s smartphones. Some people tend to capture images in quick succession, which leads to the piling up of several\/ many images of the same instance with minimal variation between the images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[77,75,76,74],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solutions","tag-delete-similar-images-from-google-drive","tag-get-rid-of-similar-images-in-google-drive","tag-how-to-delete-similar-images-from-google-drive","tag-remove-similar-photos-from-google-drive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pictureecho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}