HI Everyone,

Often we end up having same image multiple times in the same folder. It is very hard to remove. Below script will help you in easing this task.

$Folder = “C:\Users\chaitanya\pictures\Testing”

$Folderobj =get-childitem -Path $Folder -Recurse |where { ! $_.PSIsContainer }

$FolderobjCount = $Folderobj.Count

$ImageObjArr = @();

$Folderobj| ForEach-Object {

$FolderobjCount–;

$ImageHash = $null

$ImageFileName = $_.Name

$ImageFilePath = $_.FullName

$ImageFileCreateDate = $_.CreationTime

$ImageHash = Get-FileHash -Path $ImageFilePath -Algorithm MD5

Write-Host “Creating Hash for Destination Image name $($ImageFileName) and Current Image Count is : $($FolderobjCount) ” -ForegroundColor cyan

if($ImageHash)

{

$ImageObjArr += [pscustomobject]@{ImageFileName=$ImageFileName;ImageFilePath=$ImageFilePath;ImageCreateDate=$ImageFileCreateDate; ImageFileHash=$($ImageHash).Hash;}

}

}

$DeletedImages = @();

$ImageObjArr | Group-Object -Property ImageFileHash | Where-Object {$_.count -gt ‘1’} | ForEach-Object -process{

$DuplicateImageObj = $_.group | Sort-Object -Property ImageCreateDate |select -Skip 1

if($DuplicateImageObj)

{

foreach($dup in $DuplicateImageObj)

{

Write-Host “Started Deleting the Duplicate Image name $($dup.ImageFileName) ” -ForegroundColor Yellow

$DeletedImages += [pscustomobject]@{ImageFileName=$dup.ImageFileName;ImageFilePath=$dup.ImageFilePath;}

get-childitem -Path $dup.ImageFilePath | Remove-Item -Force

Write-Host “Completed Deleting the Duplicate Image name $($dup.ImageFileName) ” -ForegroundColor Green

}

}

}

$DeletedImages |Out-GridView

Note: Please be careful while giving the folder that you want, it does recursive operation and search sub folders and delete the files too apart from Images.

Regards,

Chaitanya