finddupe A tool for quickly detecting of duplicate files on a hard drive under Windows
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Duplicate files can be just detected, hardlinked, or deleted. Finddupe has several possible uses: Deleting duplicate files When working through somebody else's photo collection, or MP3 collection, this tool is useful for deleting the files that are duplicate. Depending on how the media is organized, one can finda lot of duplicate files in a collection. Freeing hard drive space Sometimes its intentional to have certain media in multiple places. By running finddupe, and hard linking the identical files, you can keep the files in multiple places, while only having one physical copy on the hard drive. Detecting changed files for backup Finddupe is useful for detecting which files have changed and need backing up. Simply back up the media, and then run finddupe to eliminate those files in the copy that are already contained in a previous backup. Finddupe is a command line program. If you don't know what a command prompt under Windows is, you may have to do a bit of learning before attempting to use this program. The command prompt is not DOS (before-windows), although it looks and acts a lot like that, and people unfamiliar thing that it is dos.

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