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Background way to find duplicate media files [duplicate]
Any know a way to semi-automatically (in background?) identify (exact) duplicate media files to simplify deduplication? Media files eat up server space yet the need ot avoid loss leads to multiple ...
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Copy only files that don't exist regardless of file name?
My dropbox account apparently renames all auto uploaded images. I'm about to clear my phone and I would like to verify that all images are in the dropbox folder before deleting them.
If they had their ...
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avoid duplicate files during backup
I'm backing up 2 drives to an external backup drive. The 2 source drives have a lot of duplicate files (name/size) between them (for work). One of the source drives is already backed up to the ...
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How to identify duplicate files (by name and size) and delete them? [duplicate]
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Find duplicate files on Mac OS X
I am trying to grep duplicate files in this selection:
find . -name '*.CR2'
I want to delete duplicate CR2 on my RAW files archive. ...
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Ensure the download is not a dupe
I want to (recursively) download a directory of files to a location from a WebDav Server. If the file is alreay present (somewhere there), it shall not be downloaded again. However the folder ...
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Fuzzy Duplicate File Finder?
Is there any GUI application (either for Windows or Linux) that implements fuzzy hashing algorithms like ssdeep or sdhash to find near duplicate files (mostly text files)?
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De-duplicate folders of PDFs based on image similarity? [closed]
On my Windows server, I have multiple folders containing hundreds if not thousands of PDFs (primarily documentation scans, scanned as images, non-OCR'ed).
I'm consolidating and reorganizing and need ...
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Why do I have identical files in one directory, in Windows 7?
I just rebuilt my system after a new Power supply fired my CPU, MBD, Video card & a Blu-Ray drive.
During all this I had to restore Windows from a backup (sector copy).
All seems well, but ...
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OSX MAIL APP: how can i merge several 'archived' MAIL folders into one single new (filesystem) folder
over the last 5 years i have accumlated several partial MAIL folders scaterred across several different volumes (representing 10GB++ of mail that i really dont want to have to download all over ...
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iTunes - One track in several albums
I'm using Windows 7 to do this. I have quite an extensive library of music and now I have quite a lot of duplicate tracks but in different albums. Obviously I don't really want duplicate files but I'd ...
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WMP 12.0 adds duplicate entries for same file mapped network drive
Windows Media Player 12 is adding duplicate entries for each file on my mapped network drive. When I try and rebuild the index by going to %UserProfile%\Appdata\Local\Microsoft\Windows Media, I am ...
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Program for remove exact duplicate files while caching search results
We need a Windows 7 program to remove/check the duplicates but our situation is somewhat different than the standard one for which there are enough programs.
We have a fairly large static archive ...
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Rsync, how can I delete remote duplicates?
I'm trying to delete remote duplicate files without transferring the non-existing files, and without updating the existing files.
If I specify both --existing and --ignore-existing (along with -av ...
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Duplicate File Scanner
I have a 15TB storage network, and I am down to about 2.5TB now (due to a large amount of duplicates). I have tried many scanners, but I have had little success, eventually they all crash due to the ...
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Find duplicates of a particular file
I downloaded an icon library from some website and I used several of the icons in a project. Now I need to find another icon from the library, but I can not find the library on my computer.
Because I ...
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Check for duplicate files in two collections, ignoring duplicates within A
I have four similar large collections of website files. They are archived copies of a similar directory tree from different times in the past.
I want to merge them all to the most recent collection, ...
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Detecting image duplicates in 7-Zip archives on Windows?
I have a large image gallery, and a few years later I realized that I get more and more duplicates. :) Basically, my gallery consists of 7-Zip archives containing the image sets. I saw there are some ...
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Is there something like hardlinks that split into separate files on modifications?
Let's say files orig and copy are huge but identical files. In order to save storage space one could therefore either make copy a soft-link to orig or hard-link both files to the same data. orig must ...
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md5deep not working with duplicated files in different directories
I want to use md5deep to check that some copied directories are copied correctly. But seems md5deep doesn't use the filenames stored in the genearted .md5-files when matching!
This actually means, ...
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Deleting music file duplicates but retaining iTunes metadata
Back when I first imported the majority of my iTunes library I had the copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library option checked, so basically my whole music library was duplicated on ...
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Is there a diff utility that allows you to exclude columns?
For example, I have a text file, each line is a long string. I want to exclude 2 "segments" of this string, say columns 1-7 and 20-22. So the bottom 2 lines below would be a match:
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Software to detect mp3 almost-duplicates?
Because of some unfortunate circumstances I noticed I irrevertibly mixed up my sorted and retagged mp3s with an old backup. That means now I have files that are basically duplicates except for the id3 ...
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Confirm that two filesystems are identical, ignoring special files
/media/A and /media/B should be identical, but I want to confirm before deleting one.
Duplicate file finders don't work, because they'll find two copies of the same file within B, for instance. I ...
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Duplicate Images / Tags - sorting and removing
I have folders full of camera images that I have copied and backed up between my laptop, computer and external hard drive(s).
I want to organise and sort them, and remove duplicates, so I have used a ...
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Two PDF files, identical except for possibly different cover pages — how to remove duplicates?
I have a bunch of PDF files which are articles downloaded from various Journal websites. The problem is, some of these PDF files are duplicates of one another. However, if I run a basic duplicate file ...
