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

[Steve]

Because Memory cards are FAT32, and so that wouldn't work?

On Nov 3, 2007 10:49 AM, Jeff Schroeder <jeff at zingstudios.com> wrote:
> 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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