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Hap H.'s avatar
Hap H.
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Removal of duplicate photos in my dropbox photo library

I somehow uploaded several hundred photos from my iphone to dropbox. Not sure how I did it, but now I see a lot of duplicate photos in dropbox (carousel).
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Vicary A.'s avatar
Vicary A.
Explorer | Level 4
9 years ago

I love how dropbox is already using file hashes to save storage space, but somehow cannot use the same thing to detect exact duplications within the same drive.

A simple MD5 hash will just simply do this simple trick.

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