Recently, I’ve been trying to get rid of junk files on my system. Now, one of the reason for a messy hard drive is because I have duplicate files.
So, we want to scan those and get rid of those. And to do that, you need to install this program. I mean, your Synaptic Package Manager. Let’s go for fslint, short for File System Lint. But it really sounds like Flintstone to me so that’s what I call it, Flintstone.
Now, after you use that program and run it, it will look like this. It will look like this. Now, what you’re going to do here is add in all the folders that you want to scan for duplicate files. I sue just scan whatever is in my Media folder. So, it’s up to you what you want to scan but that’s that. Add in all the folders.
Now, they have some other options besides just Duplicate files so like, they have like 10 files that have same links and IDs, empty directories so you can do other things besides just Duplicate but in this case, we’re just going to do Duplicates. So, you click on that and then click on Find.
Now, this is where your CPU comes in you know and it depends on how many folders you put in. So, it just depends on your hard drive and how many files you’re scanning. So, it can go a long time or a short time. Now, after you scan it, it looks something like this. It had a lot of duplicate files. Like you see I have a two of these, two of these. So, I have to see a lot of those shit, you click on Select right here. And you click on it and what it says here, Within Groups. And what you can do is select one of this like it says Select all but first and this all by newest, all but oldest. So, I did was all but first so you see the first one is not selected but every other ones below it, it will be selected. So, this makes it easy for deleting. So, not that everything you selected see have a lot of shit right. And all I got to do is hit Delete and it’s done. That’s it.
And that’s how you get rid of Duplicate Files.
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