Has anyone use the app "Visual Duplicate Similarity Image Finder Pro to delete duplicate photos?

[Laura30717277s9az]

If you allow the app to delete the duplicate photos, what happens to your catalog?   Do you have to go back and link all your pictures to Photoshop Elements?  I don't want to mess up my catalog, but I have a ton of duplicates, which I did not add.  If you let the app delete, did it delete just from the catalog, or from your drive as well?

[Greg_S.]

If you want to give us a link to the app you are considering, we may be able to help you figure it out.  There are many similarly named utilities.  Unless it is specifically designed for the Elements Organizer, my educated guess is that it will delete the duplicate files from your hard drive.  There would be no other point in having it.

[Laura30717277s9az]

Here is a link to the website.  There is a tutorial as well.  Thanks for the help.  I'm ok with the photos being deleted from my hard drive, I don't want to mess up my catalog.  https://www.mindgems.com/products/VS-Duplicate-Image-Finder/VSDIF-About.htm 

[Greg_S. · Accepted solution]

This utility appears to find exact copies as well as visually similar photos.  It allows you to delete the duplicates through Windows File Explorer.  This will mean that any deleted files will become missing in your Organizer catalog.  That is not a big problem because you can perform a search for All Missing Files from the Find menu.  Then select them all (Ctrl+A)  and press Delete to remove them all from the catalog.

But you may want to figure out why you have all these duplicates in the first place.

Added: And to answer your specific question, the utility will delete your files from the hard drive.  But you can also copy or move them.

[Laura30717277s9az]

Thank you for all the help, I appreciate you taking the time to answer my question

Laura