fdupes

[Мастер]

Yesterday, I found this software package called "fdupes" (which is probably "find duplicates"), which searches through the hard drive and identifies duplicate files. There are also options to delete duplicates, although I haven't used them yet.

My first reaction was, this package is amazing. I once actually wrote an extremely primitive version of something like this myself; mine did not work nearly as well. I wish I had found this one at the time.

Now I have found someone claiming that fdupes, although a good concept, is extremely inefficient. He (she?) spent some time optimising it, and produced "jdupes", which is supposed to be 32 times faster. I haven't tried it yet.

But even if it is really slow, fdupes has already dramatically improved the quality of my life.

[Heid the Ba]

You need to get out more, really you do, if that is what it takes for a dramatic improvement. Completely F'd up.

[Lance]

You need to get out more, really you do, if that is what it takes for a dramatic improvement. Completely F'd up.

+1

[Halcyon Dayz, FCD]

For a background application speed usually isn't that important.

I use Fast Duplicate File Finder, which has a GUI, which makes accidently deleting the wrong files less likely IMO.