This plugin checks all the media records in your project and compares the files linked to them looking for files which are identical it will pick up both records which are linked to the same file and to those where the names are different, but the contents are the same.
When complete it returns a result set containing the matching records.
By selecting each pair in turn, just drag over both cells, you can then select Edit>Merge Compare Records from the menu and merge the records together.
Once the process is complete, it is recommended to use the “Check for Unlinked Media” plugin to clean up any duplicate files.
N.B This does not handle non Latin (Unicode) file names or large files such as video, so if you make use of these please look at Check for Possible Duplicated Media
Download Check for Possible Duplicate Media V2.2
- Family Historian Version(s): V5 V6 V7
- Plugin Type: Standard
- Written by Jane Taubman
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Version History
V1.1 Add trap for Missing Files and report them on the Result Set.
V1.2 Add Caching of File details between runs
V1.3 Correct Issue with clearing the Cache (Thanks Mike)
2.1 Backward support
2.2 Correct Issue with V6 and support download of MD5 Module on V6
A “Must have” for me.
Ran and then came up with error message, “not enough memory. No changes have been made to data records.”
Is this plugin going to be updated for V7 in the future?
At present it produces an error c:\ProgramData\Calico Pie\Family Historian\Plugins\md5.lua:8: attempt to call a nil value (global ‘module’). No changes have been made to data records.
As the moment the MD5 library needed for this is not working in V7. When this is fixed it should be possible to move it up.
I had used version V1.3 of this Plugin but since I downloaded and installed V2.1 it returns a list of all Media with the message ‘File Missing:’ No duplicates are shown though I know there are many.
I notice that it produced this list instantly, whereas V1.3 took some time to search through the Media files.
Sorry I forgot to say that I am using FH6
I will look into the backwards compatibility and post a fix when I can.
Hi,
Using windows 10 & FH 7.0.7, downloaded V2.2 today and on running returns same error as Robin reported on 7th Jan
c:\ProgramData\Calico Pie\Family Historian\Plugins\md5.lua:8: attempt to call a nil value (global ‘module’). No changes have been made to data records.
Thanks
Regards
Tony
Please download and run https://pluginstore.family-historian.co.uk/page/plugin/delete-old-fh6-plugin-module-files to clean out the old FH6 modules.