Any tool out there that allow me to find duplicated files?
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Hello all, As I'm the admin of our server and people on the company loves to duplicate information, is there any tool out there that would allow me to find all the files that are duplicated? I mean: if there is three times the same file A.TXT with the same content in several different places I would like to know it. Now I'm running out of space in my backup system and manually I can see that there are lots of duplicated files... I would like to remove all the duplicate ones. The ideal scenario would be: - Scan some folders. - Show a list with all the results. - Allow me to choose what to delete and what to retain. As always thank you in advance.
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Hello all, As I'm the admin of our server and people on the company loves to duplicate information, is there any tool out there that would allow me to find all the files that are duplicated? I mean: if there is three times the same file A.TXT with the same content in several different places I would like to know it. Now I'm running out of space in my backup system and manually I can see that there are lots of duplicated files... I would like to remove all the duplicate ones. The ideal scenario would be: - Scan some folders. - Show a list with all the results. - Allow me to choose what to delete and what to retain. As always thank you in advance.
Linux should let you do that with a script and a hash function, no?
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Hello all, As I'm the admin of our server and people on the company loves to duplicate information, is there any tool out there that would allow me to find all the files that are duplicated? I mean: if there is three times the same file A.TXT with the same content in several different places I would like to know it. Now I'm running out of space in my backup system and manually I can see that there are lots of duplicated files... I would like to remove all the duplicate ones. The ideal scenario would be: - Scan some folders. - Show a list with all the results. - Allow me to choose what to delete and what to retain. As always thank you in advance.
Hi, Joan! You may find what you're looking for here: http://www.tinyapps.org/file.html[^] Scan down the page to the section labeled, "Finding Duplicate Files". Hope this helps!
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Hello all, As I'm the admin of our server and people on the company loves to duplicate information, is there any tool out there that would allow me to find all the files that are duplicated? I mean: if there is three times the same file A.TXT with the same content in several different places I would like to know it. Now I'm running out of space in my backup system and manually I can see that there are lots of duplicated files... I would like to remove all the duplicate ones. The ideal scenario would be: - Scan some folders. - Show a list with all the results. - Allow me to choose what to delete and what to retain. As always thank you in advance.
You might try cygwin. Then, like Ennis mentions, a bash script and hash (maybe MD5) should do the trick. Cygwin will give you a command line console with all the various icky linux tools like grep, find, sed, awk, and other vowel challenged unix like utilities. Should be pretty easy to put together a custom script for this.
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Linux should let you do that with a script and a hash function, no?
Need custom software developed? I do C# development and consulting all over the United States. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane
Faster than light travel is easy. All you have to do is fold space and then step across the two planes, no? The implementation is left as an exercise for the reader. ;P
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Hello all, As I'm the admin of our server and people on the company loves to duplicate information, is there any tool out there that would allow me to find all the files that are duplicated? I mean: if there is three times the same file A.TXT with the same content in several different places I would like to know it. Now I'm running out of space in my backup system and manually I can see that there are lots of duplicated files... I would like to remove all the duplicate ones. The ideal scenario would be: - Scan some folders. - Show a list with all the results. - Allow me to choose what to delete and what to retain. As always thank you in advance.
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Faster than light travel is easy. All you have to do is fold space and then step across the two planes, no? The implementation is left as an exercise for the reader. ;P
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Miszou wrote:
All you have to do is fold space and then step across the two planes, no?
That's old. We move space these days instead of folding it.
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Hello all, As I'm the admin of our server and people on the company loves to duplicate information, is there any tool out there that would allow me to find all the files that are duplicated? I mean: if there is three times the same file A.TXT with the same content in several different places I would like to know it. Now I'm running out of space in my backup system and manually I can see that there are lots of duplicated files... I would like to remove all the duplicate ones. The ideal scenario would be: - Scan some folders. - Show a list with all the results. - Allow me to choose what to delete and what to retain. As always thank you in advance.
I wrote an application to find duplicate images > clickety (ok it's advertising but it is relevant) It does this using a hash table which is probably what you want to look for in an application. My app will do some of the work for you but alas it does not cover all file types - now there's a development idea for my application :)
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Hello all, As I'm the admin of our server and people on the company loves to duplicate information, is there any tool out there that would allow me to find all the files that are duplicated? I mean: if there is three times the same file A.TXT with the same content in several different places I would like to know it. Now I'm running out of space in my backup system and manually I can see that there are lots of duplicated files... I would like to remove all the duplicate ones. The ideal scenario would be: - Scan some folders. - Show a list with all the results. - Allow me to choose what to delete and what to retain. As always thank you in advance.
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Hello all, As I'm the admin of our server and people on the company loves to duplicate information, is there any tool out there that would allow me to find all the files that are duplicated? I mean: if there is three times the same file A.TXT with the same content in several different places I would like to know it. Now I'm running out of space in my backup system and manually I can see that there are lots of duplicated files... I would like to remove all the duplicate ones. The ideal scenario would be: - Scan some folders. - Show a list with all the results. - Allow me to choose what to delete and what to retain. As always thank you in advance.
It's called TOTAL Commander for a reason. ;-) Alt+F7 gets you the search dialog. Look at the different tabs. There is an option for finding duplicates. The great thing is you can even view the contents of the file. http://www.ghisler.com
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