Thought deleting duplicate photos would be quick. Took me 4 hours.

I figured I'd spend maybe 30 minutes cleaning out my phone's gallery. Over 800 duplicates from syncing two different cloud services, and most of them were buried in random folders. By the time I got through them all I had burned a whole evening on something I thought would be simple. Has anyone else had this take way longer than they expected?

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sam_thomas1d ago

Saw some article saying most people underestimate photo cleanup time by like 5x.

milessmith1d ago

800 duplicates in a single session sounds like you didn't have a good enough system from the start. A quick pre-scan using file sizes or date ranges could have cut that time to under an hour. That extra 3.5 hours was just the penalty for not setting up a simple filter first.