Could Rev do this?

[Richard Gaskin]

Mark Swindell wrote:
> In looking for a way to remove duplicates photos from iPhoto, I find  
> iPhoto Diet (free, but not up to date and partial in its  
> implementation) and iView Media (50.00).  IPhoto surely should do  
> this on its own, but it doesn't.
> 
> So I was wondering if Rev were up to the task of being able to read  
> iPhoto catalogues, determine duplicates, and get rid of them for the  
> user.  If so, it would be a great utility and maybe give Rev some  
> publicity.  Way over my head, but for those that knows, who knows?

Maybe not. I was thinking about the same problem here the other day, and 
wile I haven't written anything yet it occurred to me that Rev's MD5 
function could probably be useful:  you'd make a list of all the files, 
read each file into a variable and run the variable through MD5, and 
then any matching MD5 keys are likely duplicates.

Anyone here see a weakness to that crude approach?

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