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What is the best duplicate file finder, that preserves my source of truth? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by parkercp@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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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 ?

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[–] lilolalu@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

How should a duplicate finder know which is the source of the duplicate?

[–] tech2but1@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Well it won't. You either tell it to assume that say oldest is always source and if there are identical files then you get asked to choose.

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