Discussion Help sorting photos within a filesystem, not just in-application

[Charlie22911]

I have a collection of ~50k photos I’ve taken over the years that I have been lazily dumping off camera into a folder without sorting, complete with many duplicates. I've decided it's in my best interest to finally go through these and sort\remove duplicates and useless photos. So far I have tried Lightroom CC to manage this, however it is the file system structure I am most concerned with sorting and Lightroom CC can't do this as far as I can tell... I store and access/edit these photos on multiple devices using different applications.
It seems as if Lightroom classic might do the trick but I can't try until the 1 week trial for Lightroom CC that I got in the Microsoft store expires (errors in the checkout process).

Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated, my Google skills just can't seem to overcome confusing product naming and advertisements disguised as articles... and frankly the task seems quite daunting at this point.

 

[killster1]

well i dont know about dumping useless ones but i know there are 1000 diff dup file delete programs, it will search the folder for the same name or size or both name and size let you choose which one to keep. i have thousands of photos to sort through too i figure when the internet breaks one day or when i retire in 20 years haaaaaaa