Thanks, I actually did use Meld, great GUI.
However, the sorting process needs digital automation.
Manually moving 1000's of files on several accounts is too slow and I 
haven't figured out how Meld could do that?

On Wednesday 3 January 2024 at 05:30:06 UTC+10 meine wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 01, 2024 at 07:03:31AM -0800, K otgc wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have Google Photos downloaded and I'm trying to sort out the mess of
> > duplicates.
> > I usually use vimdiff for file content, however this needs files in
> > directories compared.
> >
> > Running command vim -c "DirDiff dir1 dir2" -> select Enter -> DirDiff.vim
> > correctly shows folders only in dir1 and dir2.
> > However, I need dir1's files that aren't duplicates of dir2, to move into
> > dir2.
> > How can I manage this please?
>
> Since you are looking for a difference or resemblance in files and not
> per se contence, I suggest using a command line tool like `diff` or a
> graphical program like `meld`.
>
> Both will provide you with differences and alikes in name, date, size,
> etc.
>
> Vim and vimdiff are for comaring text files, and you seem to need
> something different.
>
> KR,
>
> //meine
>

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