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What is the best duplicate file finder, that preserves my source of truth? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by parkercp@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Having been so meticulous about taking back ups, I’ve perhaps not as been as careful about where I stored them, so I now have a loads of duplicate files in various places. I;ve tried various tools fdupes, czawka etc. , but none seems to do what I want.. I need a tool that I can tell which folder (and subfolders) is the source of truth, and to look for anything else, anywhere else that’s a duplicate, and give me an option to move or delete. Seems simple enough, but I have found nothing that allows me to do that.. Does anyone know of anything ?

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[-] Sergiow13@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

czkawka can easily do this OP!

In this screenshot for example, I added 3 folders and marked the first folder as reference folder (the checkmark behind it). It will now look for files from this folder in the other folders and delete all identical files found in the non-reference folders (it will off course first list all of them and ask you to confirm before deleting)

[-] ChickenMcRibs@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

thanks. this served my use case perfectly https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka

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