search.delete

difPy can automatically delete the lower quality duplicate/similar images it found. Images can be deleted by invoking delete on the difPy search:

Warning

Please use with care, as this cannot be undone.

import difPy
dif = difPy.build("C:/Path/to/Folder_A/")
search = difPy.search(dif)
search.delete(silent_del=False)

> Output
Deleted 756 files(s)

The images are deleted based on the lower_quality output as described under section Output. After auto-deleting the images, every match group will be left with one single image: the image with the highest quality among its match group.

delete asks for user confirmation before deleting the images. The user confirmation can be skipped by setting silent_del (bool) to True.

silent_del (bool)

Note

Please use with care, as this cannot be undone.

When set to True, the user confirmation for search.delete is skipped and the lower resolution matched images that were found by difPy are automatically deleted from their folder(s).