How to make Automator find and delete duplicate photos?

[flyingswordfish]

I got my MacBook a few days ago, and I love it! However, when I transferred over my files, I must have accidentally brought over at least some of my photos twice. I was looking through the smart folder for "All Images" in the Finder last night (in cover flow), and I noticed that every photo seemed to be showing up twice!

I would like to take care of this, but I have a lot of photos, so doing it manually could be a pain! How can I set up Automator to do this? I've never used Automator before, and I looked at it a little bit, but I didn't see an obvious solution.

Thanks!

 

[jerry1]

Hopefully someone has a good answer because I've been wondering about this myself!

 

[flyingswordfish]

Anybody have advice? It seems like this should be an easy task to accomplish. Perhaps there is an alternative to Automator?

 

[flyingswordfish]

So I figured out what's going on. Each photo has a thumbnail version created with it. Looking in iPhoto, I can see that some pictures have a blank square for a thumbnail, and those must be the ones I deleted. I will simply have to restore the ones I deleted, since I want the thumbnails and I have plenty of HDD space.

 

[Dal123]

It's been a year.

It's been a year since this thread was posted and I think there must be a way of doing this. Maybe 'sort by' something like that.
Anyone know how to delete duplicated photo's with automator?

 

[angelwatt]

It's been a year since this thread was posted and I think there must be a way of doing this. Maybe 'sort by' something like that.
Anyone know how to delete duplicated photo's with automator?

I'm not sure about Automator, but I use a program called ViewIt that will find duplicate images. This isn't its main feature and isn't listed in their feature set, but it's there.