There aren’t many existing options for managing duplicate items like this. I have previously ignored the duplicates in alternate formats because they weren’t too annoying, but when the sync tool uploaded a few thousand duplicate thumbnails I felt the need to do something about it. While Google’s sync tool does know how to avoid uploading exact duplicates of photos, it doesn’t do any similarity matching on image content, so thumbnails (with the same content but lower resolution) and alternate formats (sidecar JPEGs that go along with camera raw files) end up duplicated in the Google Photos library.
It seems this wasn’t a problem with the old “ Backup and Sync” application because it supported excluding some files from backup (so I could have it ignore the directory that thumbnails get put into), but the new Drive application lacks such a feature. I recently had a bit of a problem with the files that had ended up in Google Photos on my account: the Google Drive desktop synchronization app seemed to have noticed the many (reasonably-high-resolution) thumbnails that my local photo management application (Lightroom) creates, and had uploaded many near-duplicate images.
Managing Google Photos duplicates with Python 30 April, 2022
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