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Here's what I did to clean up my wife's pictures. Every time she'd download the pictures from the camera to her PC, it would put them in a new folder and import all of the pictures from the camera over and over and over again. She ended up with over 9,000 duplicate pictures.

What I did was start a new folder for all of the pictures and then copy n pasted the picture files from each of her old folders into the new folder. When you do this, windows will find the duplicate files (pictures) and ask you what to do. By choosing to not copy the duplicate files you will get all of the unique new files (pictures) but not the duplicate ones.

It took me a whole evening to do this, but I culled her 11,000 picture files down to less than 2,000 unique individual picture files. I then set her up with a google drive folder and uploaded all of them to the cloud...just in case.

Once all of the pictures are in the one big folder, you can sort them by date, name, day taken, last modified or whatever and or sort them back out by subject if you'd like...but at least you won't have thousands of duplicate pictures to try to sort at the same time.