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Duplicate folder finder?
Posted: 28 Apr 2024 10:01
by highend
I don't have the time to script that atm...
Does anyone know a software that is able to find duplicate folders (by checking if everything underneath them has the same content)?
The name of the folders don't need to match, they are in in different hierarchy levels of the
same root folder
I don't want to see any duplicate files, just the folders!
E.g.:
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Folder to scan: D:\Temp
D:\Temp\pictures1\<83 files in here in different subfolders>
D:\Temp\other pictures\new images\<the same 83 files in the same subfolders as in the line above>
Then these two folders would be presented as the result:
D:\Temp\pictures1
D:\Temp\other pictures\new images
Re: Duplicate folder finder?
Posted: 28 Apr 2024 12:02
by Norn
Re: Duplicate folder finder?
Posted: 28 Apr 2024 21:17
by highend
Thanks for the suggestion. Not exactly the representation of dupes that I've expected but at least it makes it easier to see when folders are likely the same.
A bit slow when scrolling through the list of duplicates (10.978 files, 5835 duplicates) but I can live with that
Re: Duplicate folder finder?
Posted: 09 Aug 2024 15:03
by notabot
highend wrote: ↑28 Apr 2024 10:01
find duplicate folders (by checking if everything underneath them has the same content)?
In case this hasn't been resolved yet: possible with
Everything 1.5:
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FOLDER:"D:\temp\" dupe:size;folder-names-sha-512;folder-data-sha-512
This will list and group all folders that have:
- the same size,
AND
- same sha-512 hash of all file- and fodlernames inside (recursive)
AND
- have the same content hash (also recursive)
Folder Size detection is instant (because indexed)
Foldername hash is almost instant (names come from the Everything index)
So make sure no relevant files/folders are excluded from the Everything index.
Only if those have an exact match, a content comparison will be executed.
Duplicates are grouped by a separator line. Showing them in different colors is an option too (
more info)
Re: Duplicate folder finder?
Posted: 09 Aug 2024 15:04
by highend
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a try after the weekend...