find duplicates on Onedrive, Gdrive cloud location

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LGS666
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find duplicates on Onedrive, Gdrive cloud location

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Hi all

first of all congratulations to the developer's team for this nice piece of software.

Then my question/suggestion :

I have a lot of pictures and other files on Onderive and Gdrive . Actually thousands of them. For most of the files, the file name, size and additionnaly the date is a most than sufficient information set to identify the duplicates.

According to these "partial" detection rules, would there be possible to detect the duplicates directly within the cloud ? Otherwise I would have to download hundreds of gigabytes from the cloud to my local Onedrive or Gdrive folders, which I dont want because it's so slow and data transfer quota consuming.

Tools like Syncovery for exemple (dedicated to backup and directory trees synchronization) have APIs to access these remote drrives.

Thanks for your suggestions

LG
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DigitalVolcano
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Re: find duplicates on Onedrive, Gdrive cloud location

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There's some useful info in the FAQ here-

https://digvolsoft.freshdesk.com/suppor ... -the-cloud

You might be able to use the 'Ignore Content' method one OneDrive without triggering the download.
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