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Two or more files that exactly same.

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htop showing duplicate applications with very odd bizarre results upwards of 20,30,40 or more, see screen grab

I have attached screen shots of htop and it's bizarre results. Can anyone explain what is happening here? It shows this new copy.com app taking up like 500% of my memory if you count it up.
wardr
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Can I stop wget creating duplicates?

If I run wget twice, it doesn't recognise that it has already downloaded that file, and creates a new one. Is there any way to prevent it downloading the file again? $ wget https://cdn.sstatic.net/askubuntu/img/logo.png ... Saving to:…
lofidevops
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Find duplicates of a file by content

I am currently trying to take a file (an image file such as test1.jpg) and I need to have a list of all duplicates of that file (by content). I've tried fdupes but that does not allow an input file to base its checks around. TLDR: I need a way to…
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How to remove duplicate imported photos in Shotwell

I've noticed that Shotwell has imported many images twice (e.g. from my camera SD card). Apparently the duplicate detection is buggy once a photo is imported, tagged and then re-imported. I have "write meta data tags" enabled in the settings. If I…
seb
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Duplicate sources.list entry but cannot find the duplicates?

I'm running 12.04 64bit, and every time I update using the command land, I always get W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/restricted amd64 Packages…
jfy133
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Remove Duplicate Icons In Show Applications

I have just installed Ubuntu 18.04 and proceeded to install several programs. One of the programs, Gitkraken now has 2 icons when I opened SHOW APPLICATIONS while other installed programs are not showing at all. So my questions are: 1) How do I…
Allie Syadiqin
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How to eliminate duplicate files

I use UbuntuStudio 20.04. I want to know if there is some Linux native app (with GUI) to eliminate duplicate files, not only related with the names of the files, but its content. I'm talking about to compare the lenght and the internal values to get…
Juan
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How to detect duplicates of photos (even if the duplicate is of lower resolution) and how to keep only the higher-res copy?

Perusing thousands of photos from my smartphone transferred to my computer is a bit of a challenge. Separating the wheat from the chaff is a time consuming late-night endeavor. What makes this particularly challenging is WhatsApp, as it is…
nutty about natty
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Can I find duplicate songs with different names?

I have so many duplicate songs but they have different names. Is there an application I can used to find and delete the duplicates?
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A utility to find duplicate folders (NOT files)

I know about rdfind that can find duplicate files in two directories. But I need a similar utility that finds duplicate folders (folders that have same name and same path relative to main directories) in two main directories. Is there any utility…
PHP Learner
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How to duplicate a tab in Firefox?

Is it possible to clone/duplicate tab in Firefox? Basicaly, the other new tab should contain the same history of the tab I'm trying to clone.
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Duplicate panel items after upgrade to 21.04

Hi folks. I just upgraded from Xubuntu 20.10 to 21.04 and seem to have loads of dupes in my panel icons. Including 2 copies of redshift twice. Is this because I had indicator plugin and the upgrade has added the seemingly identical status tray…
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How can I find duplicate in the first column, then remove concerning whole lines ?

I have one xlsx file (110725x9 matrix) and I saved as type text (tab delemited) because I don't know whether Unix helps for xlsx files or not. Duplicates rows are always successive line by line. For example, suppose text file as follow. You will…
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Deduplication using SDFS file system

I am trying deduplication with sdfs.(ubuntu 13.10 on Vm). (http://opendedup.org/quickstart) followed the same steps as this mounted the file system on /media/pool0/ When copied a directory containing some similar pdf's its not removing the…
Sharath
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Duplicated icons with Unity. Particular case: Matlab

When I run Matlab from its launcher, a second icon will show up. Funny thing is that if I put the mouse on the new icon, the text that appears on it is not the one I have in my .desktop file. So my guess is that the launcher is launching the script…
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