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

[Steve]

Excuse me memory cards are FAT not nessecairly FAT32 though.

On Nov 3, 2007 2:23 PM, Steve <smorrey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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