Having been so meticulous about taking back ups, I’ve perhaps not as been as careful about where I stored them, so I now have a loads of duplicate files in various places. I;ve tried various tools fdupes, czawka etc. , but none seems to do what I want… I need a tool that I can tell which folder (and subfolders) is the source of truth, and to look for anything else, anywhere else that’s a duplicate, and give me an option to move or delete. Seems simple enough, but I have found nothing that allows me to do that… Does anyone know of anything ?
I’ve used dupeGuru on windows for cleaning up my photos, worked great for that. Has a GUI and also works on linux!
https://dupeguru.voltaicideas.net/
Thanks - I think I tried that - but at the time it had no concept of a source (location) of truth to preserve / find duplicates against - has that changed ? They don’t seem to reference that specific capability on that link ?
Directories can be marked as reference directories to which other files would be considered duplicates.