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  #16  
Old December 11th 18, 02:56 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Frank Slootweg
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Default reverse image search utility, for 7/10?

Mandy Liefbowitz wrote:
On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 09:23:34 -0500, JBI wrote:

On 12/10/18 7:53 AM, Big Al wrote:
On 12/10/18 4:44 AM, JBI wrote:
Just what it says, I'm trying to find something portable and free that
would do a search of my hard drive the way Google does, where an input
image is given and then the search finds the same or similar images.
Thanks!
Now that would be cool.** I know I have duplicates under different names.
You say "or similar", I'd just like to find a binary duplicate.

Al


Actually, I believe I can answer that for a change. During my search, I
tried out VisiPics


Which has a Wiki at
http://www.visipics.info/index.php?title=Main_Page

and it does just what you describe. Brought out many
duplicates. It actually does seem to somewhat work for what I'm looking
for, but I was hoping for something a bit more efficient. Right now, I
am trying out another program called Find.Same.Images.OK.


From these guys: (or this guy?) http://www.softwareok.com
his download page is at: http://www.softwareok.com/?Download and has
loads of goodies. The direct linky to the recent version of FSIOK is
at: http://www.softwareok.com/?Download=Find.Same.Images.OK

It is
currently scanning the hard drive and will wait and see how it goes.


It is *easy* to provide linkies to programs you recommend to save us
from having to search for them.
True, it costs *you* a search but it saves us from doing hundreds,
maybe thousands of them.


Most of the time it doesn't even cost a search, because said 'linkies'
are provided in the 'Help link' field of the 'Programs and Features'
list in Control Panel (and of course most of the time in the 'Help' of
the individual programs).

And it's polite.
Mand.

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  #17  
Old December 11th 18, 04:36 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
JBI
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Default reverse image search utility, for 7/10?

On 12/10/18 9:21 PM, Mandy Liefbowitz wrote:
On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 09:23:34 -0500, JBI wrote:

On 12/10/18 7:53 AM, Big Al wrote:
On 12/10/18 4:44 AM, JBI wrote:
Just what it says, I'm trying to find something portable and free that
would do a search of my hard drive the way Google does, where an input
image is given and then the search finds the same or similar images.
Thanks!
Now that would be cool.Â*Â* I know I have duplicates under different names.
You say "or similar", I'd just like to find a binary duplicate.

Al


Actually, I believe I can answer that for a change. During my search, I
tried out VisiPics


Which has a Wiki at
http://www.visipics.info/index.php?title=Main_Page


and it does just what you describe. Brought out many
duplicates. It actually does seem to somewhat work for what I'm looking
for, but I was hoping for something a bit more efficient. Right now, I
am trying out another program called Find.Same.Images.OK.


From these guys: (or this guy?) http://www.softwareok.com
his download page is at: http://www.softwareok.com/?Download and has
loads of goodies. The direct linky to the recent version of FSIOK is
at: http://www.softwareok.com/?Download=Find.Same.Images.OK


It is
currently scanning the hard drive and will wait and see how it goes.


It is *easy* to provide linkies to programs you recommend to save us
from having to search for them.
True, it costs *you* a search but it saves us from doing hundreds,
maybe thousands of them.

And it's polite.
Mand.


I think Mandy meant that I should have provided links to the programs I
was testing, and she's right. I was in a bit
of a hurry and didn't but will go back and so so now along with my brief
comments.


  #18  
Old December 11th 18, 04:44 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
JBI
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Default reverse image search utility, for 7/10?

On 12/10/18 9:21 PM, Mandy Liefbowitz wrote:
On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 09:23:34 -0500, JBI wrote:

On 12/10/18 7:53 AM, Big Al wrote:
On 12/10/18 4:44 AM, JBI wrote:
Just what it says, I'm trying to find something portable and free that
would do a search of my hard drive the way Google does, where an input
image is given and then the search finds the same or similar images.
Thanks!
Now that would be cool.Â*Â* I know I have duplicates under different names.
You say "or similar", I'd just like to find a binary duplicate.

Al


Actually, I believe I can answer that for a change. During my search, I
tried out VisiPics


Which has a Wiki at
http://www.visipics.info/index.php?title=Main_Page


and it does just what you describe. Brought out many
duplicates. It actually does seem to somewhat work for what I'm looking
for, but I was hoping for something a bit more efficient. Right now, I
am trying out another program called Find.Same.Images.OK.


From these guys: (or this guy?) http://www.softwareok.com
his download page is at: http://www.softwareok.com/?Download and has
loads of goodies. The direct linky to the recent version of FSIOK is
at: http://www.softwareok.com/?Download=Find.Same.Images.OK


It is
currently scanning the hard drive and will wait and see how it goes.


It is *easy* to provide linkies to programs you recommend to save us
from having to search for them.
True, it costs *you* a search but it saves us from doing hundreds,
maybe thousands of them.

And it's polite.
Mand.

Quite true, and I'm sorry. I was in sort of a hurry at the time, but
here are the links along with my comments:

Visipics

https://www.fosshub.com/VisiPics.htm...iPics-1-31.exe

Comments: Pretty good, found all duplicates and similar images. Did
take overnight to fully check and provide previews for the hard drive,
but the best of the programs I tried and I believe I will stick with it.


Find.Same.Images.OK

https://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Fr...Same.Images.OK

Comments: Had high hopes, but program crashed within minutes of
starting on Win 10, so no real testing could be done.

Hope that helps.
  #19  
Old December 11th 18, 04:54 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
JBI
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Default reverse image search utility, for 7/10?

On 12/10/18 9:25 AM, 😉 Good Guy 😉 wrote:
On 10/12/2018 09:44, JBI wrote:
Just what it says, I'm trying to find something portable and free that
would do a search of my hard drive the way Google does, where an input
image is given and then the search finds the same or similar images.
Thanks!



You have heard of Google but you don't seem to know how to use it. Is
this so?

https://www.google.com/search?q=duplicate+images+finder&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b

It is still free so please use it before asking stupid questions here.
We don't support Linux junkies on Windows newsgroups.Â* they are superior
to all of us here but they still like to ask us before using their
brains to do the research for themselves.


I did Google it rather extensively FIRST, but I OFTEN like to get
opinions from this group and another or two as I find people like Paul
and others generally very helpful and a lot more relevant that general
searching provides.

As for Linux users being "superior", that's quite debatable of course.
I like using it for Internet work, but good old Win 7/10 are still used
for those things best suited to them. For years, I always turned to Win
and to use Photoshop or similar image programs, but recently The Gimp
has made quite a leap forward and I have started sing it more in Linux.


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Yup, on Ubuntu as I'm writing now. Win 7/10 are just a power button away.

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Old December 11th 18, 05:24 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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Default reverse image search utility, for 7/10?

In message , JBI writes:
On 12/10/18 9:21 PM, Mandy Liefbowitz wrote:
On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 09:23:34 -0500, JBI wrote:

On 12/10/18 7:53 AM, Big Al wrote:
On 12/10/18 4:44 AM, JBI wrote:
Just what it says, I'm trying to find something portable and free that
would do a search of my hard drive the way Google does, where an input
image is given and then the search finds the same or similar images.
Thanks!
Now that would be cool.** I know I have duplicates under different names.
You say "or similar", I'd just like to find a binary duplicate.

Al

Actually, I believe I can answer that for a change. During my search, I
tried out VisiPics

Which has a Wiki at
http://www.visipics.info/index.php?title=Main_Page

and it does just what you describe. Brought out many
duplicates. It actually does seem to somewhat work for what I'm looking
for, but I was hoping for something a bit more efficient. Right now, I
am trying out another program called Find.Same.Images.OK.

From these guys: (or this guy?) http://www.softwareok.com
his download page is at: http://www.softwareok.com/?Download and has
loads of goodies. The direct linky to the recent version of FSIOK is


Yes, he's a little quirky, but as you say lots of good stuff there. His
icon position saver (I forget what it's called, other than ending OK -
hang on, Desktop.OK I think) for example is the only one I've found that
offers the old-fashioned option of actually saving to a file, as well as
the usual obscure places (registry?).

at: http://www.softwareok.com/?Download=Find.Same.Images.OK

Looks good. Does rotated, as well as multiformat and multisize (which
seem to be commoner than I thought).

It is
currently scanning the hard drive and will wait and see how it goes.

[]
here are the links along with my comments:

Visipics

https://www.fosshub.com/VisiPics.htm...iPics-1-31.exe


(Note: although that _does_ start a download [in my browser, anyway], it
does also open a page so you can read words about it.)

Comments: Pretty good, found all duplicates and similar images. Did
take overnight to fully check and provide previews for the hard drive,
but the best of the programs I tried and I believe I will stick with it.

Yes, and I think was using more than one core.

Find.Same.Images.OK

https://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Fr...Same.Images.OK

Comments: Had high hopes, but program crashed within minutes of
starting on Win 10, so no real testing could be done.

Hope that helps.


Thanks.
JPG
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  #21  
Old December 11th 18, 10:20 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Monty
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Default reverse image search utility, for 7/10?

On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:24:52 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:


Yes, he's a little quirky, but as you say lots of good stuff there. His
icon position saver (I forget what it's called, other than ending OK -
hang on, Desktop.OK I think)

The name is DesktopOK (there is no Full Stop in the name - 10/10).

at: http://www.softwareok.com/?Download=Find.Same.Images.OK


  #22  
Old December 12th 18, 12:23 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
G Ross[_2_]
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Default reverse image search utility, for 7/10?

JBI wrote:
Just what it says, I'm trying to find something portable and free that
would do a search of my hard drive the way Google does, where an input
image is given and then the search finds the same or similar images.
Thanks!

I used to use a program called Retriever 2.3. It had a "duplicate
image finder" that worked well. However, it does not install on a
64bit machine and I have not found an upgrade.

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  #23  
Old December 15th 18, 05:38 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Char Jackson
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Default reverse image search utility, for 7/10?

On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 18:23:40 -0500, G Ross wrote:

JBI wrote:
Just what it says, I'm trying to find something portable and free that
would do a search of my hard drive the way Google does, where an input
image is given and then the search finds the same or similar images.
Thanks!

I used to use a program called Retriever 2.3. It had a "duplicate
image finder" that worked well. However, it does not install on a
64bit machine and I have not found an upgrade.


I use and recommend Duplicate Cleaner Free. I mostly use it to find
duplicate non-image files, but it also has an image mode with most of
the usual options. There's a Free version and a Pro version. I use the
Free version.

https://www.digitalvolcano.co.uk/duplicatecleaner.html

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  #24  
Old December 15th 18, 05:43 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Char Jackson
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Default reverse image search utility, for 7/10?

On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 11:41:13 -0500, Big Al wrote:

On 12/10/18 11:35 AM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 16:09:08 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , Big Al
writes:
On 12/10/18 4:44 AM, JBI wrote:
Just what it says, I'm trying to find something portable and free
that would do a search of my hard drive the way Google does, where an
input image is given and then the search finds the same or similar
images. Thanks!
Now that would be cool. I know I have duplicates under different names.
You say "or similar", I'd just like to find a binary duplicate.

Al

I've found "Duplicate Image Finder", by Runningman software, works well:
you can set the percentage similarity you wish, including 100%. However,
this seems to have disappeared. I await with interest the results that
another poster in this thread reports from several other utilities that
person has found.

For binary duplicates, _if_ you know one filename, using the
"Everything" search utility, with no name specified, highlighting the
file, then sorting the result by the size column, will list files of
identical size adjacent to the highlighted one, so that their names and
locations can be seen, and then compared (if only with "fc /b").




A very good suggestion. That has to be *much* faster than comparing a
file with every other file on the drive, bit by bit.

On the other hand, perhaps a good duplicate finding program would
begin by doing the same kind of thing. I hadn't thought of that when I
posted my earlier message in this thread.

And now that you say this, I do remember a 'find dupes' type of program
that had adjustments you could set as to how it find dupes. I think
size was one, and turn off name was another. That might have worked if
I remembered the program grin.


Duplicate Cleaner Free works very well to find duplicate files. It has
options to demand a full & exact match, ignore just filename (same
bits), ignore just size (same filename), and much more. The free version
has been good enough for me for at least 4-5 years now. It also has an
image mode where you can choose how close of a match you want, but I
haven't used that part very much. The non-image file mode works quite
well, though.

https://www.digitalvolcano.co.uk/duplicatecleaner.html


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