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FAQs

Find answers to common questions about PictureEcho

PictureEcho detects similar images on your computer and as a result, you get to bring about drastic improvement in how data is organized on your computer. You also end up utilizing your precious hard disk storage space more efficiently.

Here we have improvised some questions that might arise in a user's mind. We will keep on adding any questions which we get on your email and are deemed to be helpful enough to the general audience. If you have a specific query in mind and can't find it here, email us at support@pictureecho.com right away.

This software focuses on scanning for similar natured images stashed across various locations on your computer.

No. PictureEcho has the images loaded in it's interface once you've selected them yourself. As you either click Clear Result or exit the program, the entire image collection is simply washed from the program's memory without a single trace left behind. We take data privacy very seriously. And PictureEcho will never, ever access even a single image without the user's command.

Yes! Similar images bear close enough resemblance to be classified as belonging to the same family, yet they contain tangible differences in them that are visible to the naked eye most of the times. Identical images on the other hand, are the exact copies of each other in every aspect.

Exact Match is the concerned setting in PictureEcho you can apply to scan for duplicate images, whereas Similar Match filters out similar images based on the Similarity Setting you apply.

You have the luxury of choosing from 4 different similarity thresholds.

The top 3 settings hinge on the time interval and look for pictures snapped within 30 seconds, 1 minute and 60 minutes of each other. The last settings doesn't takes the time interval into account and focuses on the images solely.

Right now we support .jpg, .png, .jpeg, .ico, .bmp and .tif formats. We plan to add up many more formats to the Included Extensions list very soon.

Yes you can choose to scan as many folders, hard drive partitions and even external storage drives as you like in a single scan.

Total Files refers to the cumulative images detected as as Exact Match/ Similar Match during the scan. Total Groups stands for the number of groups the images detected during the scan are divided into, based on their similarity/ congruency level. A single group comprises of 2 (or more) images. The number of images in each group might vary on a case-to-case basis.

Click Select Duplicates and choose your desired option. Next, click Select Action and choose between deleting the selected images permanently, moving them to the recycle bin or moving them to a folder you specify.

Yes. Simply click the History section at the bottom to open up details of the past scans you've performed.

Simply click the Help section at the bottom of the PictureEcho user interface to open up a step-by-step guide that has been penned down just for you.

Page was last modified on 4th December 2017.