With increasing life expectancy of systems, it is also putting garbage on these data, dopplte files whether they are pictures or music files are a common occurrence... Even a good Linux distribution leaves tracks like empty directories, broken links, duplicate files... And with one or more large disk, this problem is increasing.
Fslint is the software that will help you. Available in either graphical mode or console mode. The program is written in python and you will select the paths to be analyzed.
You can use Fslint to Duplicate Files find and delete in Ubuntu. The installation is done quickly. Then there is the GUI under System Tools, and can be started from there. The home directory is the pre-selection, after starting the program, and will recursively. Other directories or the entire file system can quickly add and browse as well.
The search results are neatly listed, grouped and displayed with the same file path. For your own safety, you can switch from the list in which the files contain folders and see if the file is then necessary, or delete them directly.
Q: It searches for her identical files only by name, or can it distinguish when in text documents is somewhat different drinne or have a different update date?
A: This will create a hash of the content and also cross-checked.
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