Could Rev do this?

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Richard,
A potential danger I see to this approach is if one of the duplicates 
had been edited. The routine would have to check for modification date 
(probably safe to keep the one most recently changed) - just not delete 
any apparent duplicates that have different edit dates?
Paul Looney

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From: Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
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Sent: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:51:53 -0700
Subject: Re: Could Rev do this?

   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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  Richard Gaskin 
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