From ebfcedac7b0abd440fa865bb08242e4781e32aff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: laurenspriem Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:22:32 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] update outdated --- docs/docs/photos/features/deduplicate.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/docs/photos/features/deduplicate.md b/docs/docs/photos/features/deduplicate.md index ea931d174d..2d1f2055a0 100644 --- a/docs/docs/photos/features/deduplicate.md +++ b/docs/docs/photos/features/deduplicate.md @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ to album", and the actual files are not re-uploaded. ## Manual deduplication -Ente also provides a tool for manual de-duplication in _Settings → Backup → +Ente provides a tool for manual de-duplication in _Settings → Backup → Free up space → Remove duplicates_. This is useful if you have an existing library with duplicates across different albums, but wish to keep only one copy. From 45249e0cdfdb23cf7a61c10d1a65762a4c5ba568 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: laurenspriem Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:24:02 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] add similar images entry --- docs/docs/photos/features/deduplicate.md | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/docs/photos/features/deduplicate.md b/docs/docs/photos/features/deduplicate.md index 2d1f2055a0..930ebbcd9a 100644 --- a/docs/docs/photos/features/deduplicate.md +++ b/docs/docs/photos/features/deduplicate.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ description: Removing duplicates photos using Ente Photos # Deduplicate Ente performs two different duplicate detections: one during uploads, and one -that can be manually run afterwards to remove duplicates across albums. +that can be manually run afterwards to remove duplicates and very similar files across albums. ## During uploads @@ -57,6 +57,13 @@ single copy, and add symlinks to this copy within all existing albums. So your existing album structure remains unchanged, while the space consumed by the duplicate data is freed up. +## Filtering similar images + +Ente also provides a tool for manual removal of images that are similar, but not the exact same, using our private ML. This feature can be found in _Settings → Backup → Free up space → +Similar images_. This is useful if you've taken a lot of similar photos, potentiall even in different albums, and want to keep only the best ones. + +During this filtering process you can choose which photos to keep and which to delete for each set of similar images. Ente will then automatically add symlinks for the kept photos to any albums that only had the deleted images. This way you can easily prune similar images, without worrying about accidentally removing the best ones from a certain album. + ## Adding to Ente album creates symlinks Note that once a file is in Ente, adding it to another Ente album will create a