Bonus:
Explanation: asking for a program to effectively remove duplicates gives 14 programs that do essentially the same (therefore, making them duplicates).
Relevant XKCD:
Bonus:
Explanation: asking for a program to effectively remove duplicates gives 14 programs that do essentially the same (therefore, making them duplicates).
Relevant XKCD:
I always found the actual challenge to decide what to get rid of once the duplicates where found.
Some tools I tried would also ask file-by-file, which I found a bit useless for thousand of files. Yet, I cannot even express a set of rules to decide this in general, so I’m not blaming the tools.
In particular, with picture collections I also came to the conclusion that some redundancy is probably ok rather than accidentially deleting data that I duplicated on purpose and simply forgot why.
Also, it is important that the tool recognises if the whole directory tree has been duplicated. e.g. if you duplicate an installation folder.
Exactly, with things like music or pictures, there’s always that bit of doubt that makes it scary to actually delete anything…