Are you someone who has to work with photographs a lot? Have you ever felt like your computer’s storage space is diminishing mysteriously? If yes, this might be the perfect read for you.
What is a Raw Photo?
A raw photo is an unprocessed one. Such a photo is not ready to be edited by any program or to be printed. Among the several types of raw photos, a few are:
- .cap: A packet capture file, also known as a trace file, is created using a packet sniffing application. It holds raw data, which can later be analyzed using another program.
- .iiq: An .iiq file is a high-quality raw image captured using a Phase One digital camera. Although it is a raw file, it can be worked on using Capture One’s professional graphics editing software program.
- .eip: This format is again used by Capture One and refers to an Enhanced Image Package. Such a file has a container that holds a settings file, along with an LCC one.
- .dng: An Adobe Digital Negative raw file is a file structure that allows storing an image along with its metadata.
- .erf: An Epson Raw Image file could be uncompressed or compressed both. This is a true photograph taken with the Epson camera, without any sort of alterations.
- .kdc (Kodak): Files with this extension hold minutely processed data from the image sensors of an image scanner or a digital camera.
Other examples of the types of raw photos include .dcs, .dcr, .drf, and .k25. If you wish to delete duplicate KDC, ERF, DNG, EIP, and photos with other formats, see the procedure below:
Finding & Removing Duplicate Raw Files
Since most normal users do not work with raw file types, most duplicate finding applications only focus on mainstream file types. However, PictureEcho allows users to hunt for various types of raw file duplicates as well.
Using PictureEcho is as easy as it could get. Just follow the simple steps given below:
- After opening PictureEcho, click on Add Path to add the files or folders that you wish to scan in detail
- From the two options on left (Similar Match and Exact Match), select Exact Match
- Go to the Similarity Settings, followed by the Included Extensions tab
- Head to Exact Match again and type all the file extensions that you want to include in your duplicate search
- Click on the Start Search button. In a matter of no time, you will be able to see the results on your screen
- If you wish, take a look at the stats at the bottom of your screen to see how much space these dupes were eating up
- Via the Select Duplicates option, select all the duplicate files that you wish to remove or retain in a separate folder
- Using the Select Action finally decide what you want to do with your selected duplicate files
PictureEcho’s intelligent algorithm is capable of finding duplicate photos with an accuracy of 100%, faster than you would imagine. If you wish to speed up your computer and free some valuable storage space, do try it out!