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How to find duplicate folders only, based on folder sizes?
Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2023 9:55 am
by dcwul62
I would like to have a listing of duplicate -folders- only, based on their total size, ignoring individual file sizes.
How do I do that?
thanks!
Re: How to find duplicate folders only, based on folder sizes?
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2023 5:24 pm
by therube
There is no easier (& quicker) way then, Everything.
Do a search for, folder: dupe:size
After that, depending on what you then want to do, you can certainly select said directories to be further examined by DC.
(Note sure if Everything 1.4 [Release] does what I mentioned, but
Everything 1.5 Alpha certainly does [& don't let the "alpha" fool you - it is robust].)
Re: How to find duplicate folders only, based on folder sizes?
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2024 2:49 pm
by dcwul62
Thanks a lot.
Indeed, Everything may be quicker.
FWIW: likely one may wish to add 'parent:2' or 'parent:3' or so
A parent folder may have a single sub folder of e.g. 100MB
or a sub folder VIDEO_TS,
in which cases both folders (Parent and sub folders) are listed then.
To avoid this one may wish to experiment with the parent: parameter.
This is not really a thing for DC though...
Anyway, thanks again