[sllug-members]: GUI for finding and deleting duplicate files?

[Jeff Schroeder]

Marc:

> There are several CLI tools that find duplicate files that I am
> familiar with.  The issue is that while doing this programatically
> would be fast and efficient (I could just delete the newer of two or
> more identical files), this could mess with my highly awesome and
> coveted process of photo organization as outlined above.

What if you wrote a CLI script to go through your directories and find 
duplicate filenames, and then instead of deleting the newer file you 
hard-linked it to the older one (or vice versa; it doesn't matter).  
That way you'll preserve your hierarchy and even though you'll appear 
to have two copies of the same file, you can edit one and the other 
will be changed accordingly.

I suppose symbolic links would work just as well, if you prefer that.

$0.02,
Jeff
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