Finding duplicates in a list

Ian Wood revlist at azurevision.co.uk
Wed Jan 9 05:16:57 EST 2008


Hi Bill,

<http://azurevision.co.uk/rev/dupeslist.txt>

Yes, I wish to end up with a list of duplicates, not a list of uniques.

Ian

On 9 Jan 2008, at 08:57, Bill Marriott wrote:

> Hi Ian,
>
> I have a couple ideas... Would you be able to upload a sample list
> somewhere -- the result of ijwAPLIB_getAllChecksums() -- so we could  
> try it
> out and measure? Also, just want to double-check that you intend to  
> produce
> a list of duplicate items, not a list of uniques.
>
> - Bill
>
> "Ian Wood" <revlist at azurevision.co.uk> wrote
> in message news:3E1F0603-98FC-4F54-8259- 
> E56C048FF3C9 at azurevision.co.uk...
>> The problem - trying to find duplicate files in a database (Apple
>> Aperture), and have found a checksum column for all the image files.
>>
>> I've had a go at writing a handler to find the dupes and it does  
>> OK,  but
>> wondered if the bright sparks on the list have any advice on   
>> speeding it
>> up it...
>>
>> [snip]
>
>
>
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