Finding Duplicate Photos in Dropbox for Microsoft Windows

Managing photos in your PC is fairly easy since you have several Windows OS built-in tools that could help you achieve results in minutes. The trouble arises when you are destined to remove duplicate photos from the operating system and/or an application such as the Dropbox.

Finding and deleting duplicate photos in your Dropbox account could be a bit tricky if you are a non-savvy computer user. When you add photos in bulk to your cloud-folder/ drive, the issue of duplicate pictures arises.

This article describes 2 methods to help you deal with duplicate images in your Dropbox account. Dropbox offering fairly lesser storage space than it’s peers for the free of cost subscription plan makes it even more critical to take stock of duplicate images and make the most of every single byte of your account’s storage space. You can achieve so much (and more) by using Clone Files Checker.

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Note: CFC version 5.3 provides an easier and much more efficient method to Dropbox users to scan for duplicate photos and take care of them. Forget any tedious downloading of your Dropbox photos collection on your computer. Simply put the Dropbox feature in the Cloud Scan of Clone Files Checker to good use.

Direct Method

This method provides an in-house solution to the users to scan for any duplicate images amongst their Dropbox data and take care of it for good. All of this can be achieved without having to download any Dropbox data and then upload it back once the duplicate image cleanup has been performed. Here it goes then:

1. Launch Clone Files Checker, click the Cloud Scan tab and then select Dropbox.
   

   

2. Click the Dropbox option and then click on Load Drive in Step 1.
3. Enter your Dropbox credentials and click Sign in.
4. Once the Dropbox data has been completely loaded into CFC interface, select any/ all folders you want to scan and click Start Search.
5. The scan might take a while to conclude as Dropbox tends to be on the slower side while dealing with data.
   

   

6. As you get the scan results, click Select Duplicates to choose which type of image you wish to retain (for every single duplicate group).
7. Finally, click Select Action to either delete the duplicate images to the Deleted files section or let Clone Files Checker move the duplicates to a folder it will create.
   

   

8. That’s it!

Indirect Method

1. Visit www.dropbox.com and log into your account and then navigate the photos webpage. This is where your photos are located. Normally, photos are uploaded to http://www.dropbox.com/photos

2. Try and navigate to the date that you uploaded the photos which you suspect to be having duplicates. Then physically locate the duplicate folders

3. Next, right click on the first duplicate photo then select the “Show in folder” option

4. Take note of the location of that particular photo in your Dropbox. At this point, you may repeat this step for the other duplicate photos that exist in your Dropbox account.

If the locations for the subsequent duplicate photos are different from the first, then you have multiple copies of the same photo in your account, and only a program like Clone Files Checker may be helpful. In this case, follow these steps:

1. Download and install the Dropbox application on your PC

2. Synchronize your Dropbox account with your computer so that the files in your account will also exist locally in your PC as well

3. Open up Clone Files Checker program and click on the “Add folder”

4. Locate the Dropbox folder and select it as the folder to search.

5. Select “Images” in the custom search option.

6. Click on the start button and wait for the results

7. Select the duplicate files and delete them. Ensure you are connected to the internet while doing this since Dropbox will synchronize your folder and also delete the duplicate photos in your online account as well.