Deduplication
Hey, any tips on deduplication of photos? I've imported from Google Photos, but Ente's deduplication missed a lot. I think it's probably because I had some from Google Photos, Facebook Photos, etc which are the same photo with different resolutions (and maybe even different color palette?). I'm thinking of deleteing everything from Ente, pulling all my photos from Google Takeout again, and running some sort of deduplication software before sending to Ente. Any ways to make this easier? Any suggestions on software? (Running Ubuntu 25)
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Ente performs duplicate detection during uploads, and also has a manual deduplication tool that can be run to remove duplicates and similar files across albums.
For Google Photos, it is recommended to unzip all of your Google Takeout zips into a single folder, and then import that folder into Ente. This is to ensure Ente can correctly map the
.jpeg and .json files. More information is available at https://help.ente.io/photos/migration/from-google-photos/.
Ente provides a manual de-duplication tool in Settings → Backup → Free up space → Remove duplicates. This is useful if you have an existing library with duplicates across different albums, but wish to keep only one copy. During this operation, Ente will discard duplicates across all albums, retain a single copy, and add symlinks to this copy within all existing albums, so your existing album structure remains unchanged, while the space consumed by the duplicate data is freed up. More information is available at https://help.ente.io/photos/features/deduplicate#manual-deduplication.
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