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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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[–] Mildly_Excited@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've used dupeGuru on windows for cleaning up my photos, worked great for that. Has a GUI and also works on linux!
https://dupeguru.voltaicideas.net/

[–] parkercp@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks - I think I tried that - but at the time it had no concept of a source (location) of truth to preserve / find duplicates against - has that changed ? They don’t seem to reference that specific capability on that link ?

[–] FantasticRole8610@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Directories can be marked as reference directories to which other files would be considered duplicates.