Questions tagged [duplicate-files]
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How to delete duplicate files with fdupes?
When I run fdupes it finds more than 30,000 duplicate files. I need to keep one file and delete all the other duplicates (because some of them are systemfiles). Please give me a command or script to do this without pressing "1 or 2 or all" for each…
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How can I find duplicate songs?
The title says it all. How can I detect duplicates in my media library?
Ingo
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Filesystem filling up due to large uvcydnctrl-udev.log file
Now my installation of Ubuntu costs me more than 100 GB of the hard drive space. And whenever I try fslint and fdupes, they say Permission denied to delete the duplicates. Please help me guys.
Additional Info
Output of df:
Filesystem Size…
user84055
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How to remove duplicate tracks from Banshee?
How to remove duplicate tracks from Banshee?
ok comp
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How to remove duplicate tracks from Rhythmbox?
I have Rhythmbox 2.97 on 32bit Ubuntu 12.10.
I have a large number of duplicate music entries that don't show up in my music folder.
I really would like to know if there's any plugin or any means to get rid of them.
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Is there a way to find duplicate images in Ubuntu?
I am wondering if there is a way to compare folders in Ubuntu? I have tried to organize my photo folders many times...and for this reason I have several folders that contain the same files (maybe a couple of extra ones) and it would be great to have…
Elysium
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How to find ONLY duplicate files that have different names?
FSlint can find duplicate files. But suppose one has 10,000 songs or images and wants to find ONLY those files that are identical but have different names? Right now, I get a list that has hundreds of dupes (in different folders). I want the names…
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How do I find and delete duplicate music tracks?
My issue is that for some reason I have duplicates of some music tracks. However they are not named identically. For instance:
Music/Prefuse 73/One Word Extinguisher/07. Detchibe.mp3
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Music/Prefuse 73/One Word Extinguisher/07 -…
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How to find files that do not have a duplicate in a separate directory
I have an old backup of documents. In my current Documents directory, a lot of these files exist in different locations with different names. I'm trying to find a way to show which files exist in the backup that do not exist in the Documents…
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How to clean duplicates existing in one folder from another recursively?
Summary:
Folder A has only many Excelent files
Folder B has many folders of mixed Excelent/Good/Bad files
How can I delete files in Folder B folders only in case they will be in Folder A.
In other words, how to check if Folder A files exist in…
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I am receiving a message saying I have duplicate sources but I can't seem to find a duplicate of the line described, any ideas?
I receive this meassage when I run sudo apt-get update in the terminal:-
Duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ precise/partner i386 Packages…
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Why are files duplicated in my home folder and desktop?
Files in my SSD get duplicated on my Desktop. When I delete any folder/file it gets automatically deleted from the second location (Home) and when I create a folder in any of the locations it gets created in both places.
Take this screenshot for…
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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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Identical folders in home directory after decryption of home directory failed
So this morning I turned on my laptop, and everything seemed to be going fine until I logged in. All my settings were gone, back to the default desktop, default programs and everything. I did an 'ls' on my home directory, and it was just a bunch of…
Dane Larsen
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File and folder comparison tool that compares only filenames?
I found this question already, which has a lot of good answers, but as far as I can tell none of the programs listed compare only the filenames. What program can I use to compare two directories and list which files only exist in one or other…
Clonkex
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