If you have accumulated thousands of files , some times you will have more than one versions of same file. If you use Ubuntu of Mint linux you can find and remove these duplicates very easily. There are two popular tools for this fdupes and fslint Using fdubes ftubes is the most popular, simple and powerful tool to find duplicates and remove them. It is a command line tool so if you don't like command line move to next heading. It compares file size and MD5 signatures(Do not worry if you don't know what it is). So it will find duplicates even if they have different names. Installation From terminal execute following command sudo apt-get install fdupes ftubes Syntax fdupes [options] directory where options available are -r --recurse include files residing in subdirectories -s --symlinks follow symlinked directories -H --hardlinks normally, when two or more files point to the same disk area they are treated as non-duplicates; this option
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