So, I’m selfhosting immich, the issue is we tend to take a lot of pictures of the same scene/thing to later pick the best, and well, we can have 5~10 photos which are basically duplicates but not quite.
Some duplicate finding programs put those images at 95% or more similarity.

I’m wondering if there’s any way, probably at file system level, for the same images to be compressed together.
Maybe deduplication?
Have any of you guys handled a similar situation?

  • @NeoNachtwaechterEnglish
    9•3 months ago

    we can have 5~10 photos which are basically duplicates

    Have any of you guys handled a similar situation?

    I decide which one is the best and then delete the others. Sometimes I keep 2, but that’s an exception. I do that as early as possible.

    I don’t mind about storage space at all (still many TB free), but keeping (near-)duplicates costs valuable time of my life. Therefore I avoid it.