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I keep seeing as on social media for these 'wonder gadgets' that will harvest all your photos on a device and delete duplicates etc, only every see 'testimony' style adverts. Does anyone have any real world experience of any of them and are they any good? Alternatively, any other suggestions?
TIA.
Do you use Google Photos? It periodically asks me if I want to rotate pics 90 degree out, delete duplicates and screenshot, etc.
I agree with above.
Google Pictures is incredibly good at what it does.
Uts likely I'll have to start paying a small fee for its services soon but I actually don't resent it. Its superb. I'm highly, highly retentive about my pictures** and videos. They include scans of old and very precious ones (to me and my family) and Photos is the only app I really trust them with.
Most are backed up on physical external hard drives too but after a couple of failures (backed up on other drives too, fortunately) I'm trusting Photos more and more.
**They are the only things I'd run into a burning house for, other than people or pets!
I've always used lightroom backed up over two hard drives. I keep thinking about Google photos or the like as a back up.
Most of the de-duplicator apps I’ve seen and the few I’ve used are not great. Most relied on either metadata comparisons or metadata and file hashing/fingerprinting.
This is Ok for genuine duplicates: exact copies. But as soon as you start adding fuzziness to the parameters like ‘ignore modified date’ or ‘inexact file name matching’ they suggest almost-duplicates. And when you get to a certain point you see that the ‘best’ way is to do it manually/group wise or just not bother since storage is cheap-ish.
That handful of ones I tried includes a couple of plug-ins for lightroom.
If anyone has found a great de-duplicator then I’d be interested. Pretty sure there are a few hanging around in my lightroom catalog.
As folks have said, Google photos is surprisingly good. I have used it to keep a separate, jpeg, copy of my lightroom originals. But the recent storage limit has meant that has come to a stop.
Lightroom backup? I have my catalog on the SSD in my MacBook Pro. My originals on a Samsung T7. And the T7 is cloned to a NAS every time it is plugged in. It’s also part of a BackBlaze backup plan. And gets included in my Time Machine process. Plus the photos are (now mostly) on Flickr and Google photos thanks to their sync apps. I have tried Amazon Drive but that moans about being full so needs me to do something.
I'm another one for Google photos. It's pretty damn good at what it does.
I use Google but have in the past trawled through and deleted old duplicates, unwanted shots and library pictures only for them to reappear.
I've also discovered long forgotten shots and wondered how many others are in there somewhere (before my 7yo HP laptop finally gives up the ghost), these things profess to be able to find them?
I will have a closer look at Google, cheers.