How To Organize Folders?

I'm trying to organize my pictures and videos from the past few years. I have over 90 gigs of pictures and vids, but there are duplicates and I would like to remove them and maybe combine them by year, month or something like that. The main thing is to get the dups removed.
Is there anything that would help me do this? I want it to check if the files are exactly the same and ask me if I want to delete them or not.

 

getting duplicate pictures removed

Duplicate Picture Finder
http://www.jonbondy.com/HomePage/software.htm

organizing....that is a very individual task determined by how you think

I do

YEAR
-MONTH
--EVENt

 

I organize mine by:

People
Places
Events
Things

Then with named folders under each of those. Some of those folders contain dates, like "Christmas 2009" under events. Other just names like "Joshua" or "Erin and Jason" under people.

Gary

 

Thanks for the link, hopefully that will help.
I know that its an individual task, but i was hoping there is a program that would help me do this.. going through so many folders of vids and pics is reallly boring and slow lol.
You see, I used to just back up to my portable HDD (all cameras, phones etc), then I would save some pics to my laptop and my parents would do the same. So, I decided to combine all of them together and make it easier to find stuff.

Makes sense.

 

Fastest program to find duplicates I've found so far is this
(I use it to keep track of what I backup on the external drives but can also be used to find duplicates) It also works on Vista, tested.
It's only a 46 kB (yes, KILO bytes) download, but believe me, the electrons it's made of come from gold atoms.

Cathy
you can download it from many sources, like Cnet, it has just been updated so, thanks for letting me look into this issue .
Here and here are a few reviews.

It is lightning fast.

 

I've just got two warnings from Avira about the duplicate picture finder exe and I guess its cache image.
The virus indicated is "TR/Agent.836048"

False alarm?

 

Alternatively you could download Picasa and it'll do it all for you I find that it's much better than the default picture viewer. Pictures load faster and are automatically cached. You can sort by anything and it lets you see your entire collection of pictures like a collage. Just try it out it can detect duplicates as well as do many other things.

 

Well, I tried the Duplicate Picture Finder and after an it found all the pictures and showed me the dups, when I tried to click on delete or anything else for that matter it would just throw me an error...This might be because I'm on a 64-bit Win7.

 

Hmm...not sure I've ever tried it on 64bit.


You could try this...seems similar

Clone Remover - duplicate images finder - find duplicate images

 

In my experience, organizing photos and videos is pretty unique to the individual. I organize everything chronologically by folder name:

year_month_day Description

That way everything is in one folder. It makes sense to me but maybe not to you. I have Windows set up with my camera to automatically import images into my camera pictures folder with those specific folder names to make it easy for me to stay organized.

 

That's actually a really really good system. My current organization is pretty poor, but at the moment I only have about 15GB of photos. I'll try your system.

 

I do:

Family /work/ travel /others
- Year
-- Specific people or event
--- Throw all pictures in there.

 

I pre-pend the useless camera file name with the date and time. 'DSC2136' then becomes '2011_03_10_0647_DSC2136'. I use a program called 'setnametotime' which used to be free to do that (you might still find that older version somewhere). Then I print a page or two of thumbnails from IrfanView and those go in a notebook.