rmlint VS libpostal

My preferred solution is rmlint [https://github.com/sahib/rmlint] mostly because it also looks at duplicate directories. It produces a bash script instead of deleting anything itself, so you can examine it before running the script it made.

After I removed duplicates (with help of https://github.com/sahib/rmlint ), I migrated my photos to an ordinary zpool instead.

For the technically savvy among you there is an excellent open source program called ‘rmlint’ (aka. Remove Lint). It is excellent at finding duplicates and saved me terabytes of space.

You don’t say if you are on Windows or Unix. I have used rmlint successfully in the past.

dupeguru or rmlint

rmlint, my friend, is the last tool you will ever need for this

I use and test assorted duplicate finders regularly.

fdupes is the classic (going way way back) but it's really very slow, not worth using anymore.

The four I know are worth trying these days (depending on data set, hardware, file arrangement and other factors, any one of these might be fastest for a specific use case) are https://github.com/jbruchon/jdupes , https://github.com/pauldreik/rdfind , https://github.com/jvirkki/dupd , https://github.com/sahib/rmlint

Had not encountered fclones before, will give it a try.

@echo off REM Check if MSYS2 and MinGW are installed where msys2 2>nul >nul if %errorlevel% equ 0 ( echo MSYS2 is already installed. Use --force to reinstall. ) else ( REM Install MSYS2 and MinGW choco install msys2 refreshenv ) REM Check if MSYS2 packages are updated pacman -Qu 2>nul >nul if %errorlevel% equ 0 ( echo MSYS2 packages are already updated. Use --force to reinstall. ) else ( REM Update MSYS2 packages pacman -Syu ) REM Check if build dependencies are installed pacman -Q autoconf automake curl git make libtool gcc mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc 2>nul >nul if %errorlevel% equ 0 ( echo Build dependencies are already installed. Use --force to reinstall. ) else ( REM Install build dependencies pacman -S autoconf automake curl git make libtool gcc mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc ) REM Check if libpostal is cloned if exist libpostal ( echo libpostal repository is already cloned. Use --force to reinstall. ) else ( REM Clone libpostal repository git clone https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal ) cd libpostal REM Check if libpostal is built and installed if exist C:/Program Files/libpostal/bin/libpostal.dll ( echo libpostal is already built and installed. Use --force to reinstall. ) else ( REM Build and install libpostal cp -rf windows/* ./ ./bootstrap.sh ./configure --datadir=C:/libpostal make -j4 make install ) REM Check if libpostal is added to PATH environment variable setx /m PATH "%PATH%;C:\Program Files\libpostal\bin" 2>nul >nul if %errorlevel% equ 0 ( echo libpostal is already added to PATH environment variable. Use --force to reinstall. ) else ( REM Add libpostal to PATH environment variable setx PATH "%PATH%;C:\Program Files\libpostal\bin" ) REM Test libpostal installation libpostal "100 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA" pause

I know of https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal which handles typos and omissions in addresses, but I am looking into a more fuzzy description of a location.

use an address parser library like libpostal https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal

Also, what OS(s) does IT support for clients and servers? I think Libpostal doesn't officially support Windows, but you can build it to target that. Seems difficult and/or unreliable though: https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal/issues/219

You can feed libpostal sequence of string until it gives good results. A lot of miss, some hits, score the hits. https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal