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Duplicate finders are good at finding identical files and bad at knowing which copy matters. Here is how to tell true duplicates from files that only look alike, which camera files are never duplicates, and a quarantine-first cleanup with Apple Photos, Immich, fclones or Czkawka.
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Drones, action cameras, 360 cameras, mirrorless bodies and phones all reuse file names, and they all mean something different by them. Here is a plain folder scheme, year then trip then camera, that keeps every card separate, needs no special software and still makes sense in ten years.
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A drag and drop that finishes without an error has not proved anything. Here is how footage gets lost or damaged on the way off a card, what a checksum-verified copy actually checks, and a simple routine you can run on a Mac or Windows PC before you format the card.
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