fdupes
FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories. (by adrianlopezroche)
go-find-duplicates
Find duplicate files (photos, videos, music, documents) on your computer, portable hard drives etc. (by m-manu)
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| fdupes | go-find-duplicates | |
|---|---|---|
| 17 | 3 | |
| 2,354 | 259 | |
| - | - | |
| 2.5 | 2.6 | |
| about 2 months ago | 9 months ago | |
| C | Go | |
| - | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
fdupes
Posts with mentions or reviews of fdupes.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-02.
- Fdupes: Identify or Delete Duplicate Files
- fdupes: Identify or Delete Duplicate Files
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Removing image duplicates
fdupes is simple and easy to use: https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes
- Backing Up Data: Tips/Advice for Tons of Unorganized Data and Duplicate Files from Multiple Sources
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File Deduplication
I recently used [fdupes](https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes) to figure out duplicate files from my amazon cloud drive / photos migration. Took about 2 days to scour through about 1.5TB worth of day.
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How would I go about copying around 5TB worth of data, from multiple drives to a singular drive/drives (Shared Pools/Raid)?
I would add the content of your current drives with rysnc to the new big drive. I would then run https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes To remove duplicate files.
- Ask HN: Tool to find identical file subtrees scattered over disks
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Which tool do you use to find duplicate files?
jdupes, an optimized fork of the popular fdupes. There's 32-bit and 64-bit Win32 packages of jdupes there on Github.
- Mercredi Tech - 2022-05-11
- Suggestions on how to identify & report on old stale data in file shares?
go-find-duplicates
Posts with mentions or reviews of go-find-duplicates.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-29.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing fdupes and go-find-duplicates you can also consider the following projects:
rdfind - find duplicate files utility
fclones - Efficient Duplicate File Finder
jdupes - A powerful duplicate file finder and an enhanced fork of 'fdupes'.
czkawka - Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc.
rmlint - Extremely fast tool to remove duplicates and other lint from your filesystem
dupd - CLI utility to find duplicate files
dupeguru - Find duplicate files
duphard - A simple utility to detect duplicate files and replace them with hard links.