🛠️ Duplicate Files Management

👋 Duplicate files can be found, removed and ordered.

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Using Duplicate Files Scripts, Python 3

Repository.

🚀 Run locally

Using makefile

Step 1/2: Find duplicates.

make find-duplicates

Step 2/2: Delete duplicates.

make delete-duplicates

🚀 Bonus: Order files by month or day

The files ordered on set by day and generate folders with the following format YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD as a result.

make reorder-files

📚Contents

1. 01_find_duplicates.py
2. 02_delete_duplicates.py
3. 03_reorder_files.py

📊 Metrics or Results

To scenario 1/3: Find duplicates.

Statistics:
Total files processed: 1677
Unique files: 1634
Duplicate files found: 43
Percentage of unique files: 97.44%
Percentage of duplicate files: 2.56%
Total space occupied by unique files: 352872.07 MB
Total space occupied by duplicates (could be freed): 15474.60 MB

To scenario 2/3: Delete duplicates.

Statistics:
Total duplicates deleted: 43
Total space freed: 15474.60 MB

To scenario 3/3: Delete duplicates.

Directory structure and file counts:
/local/path/2023-11-12: 1 files
/local/path/2023-11-23: 24 files
/local/path/2023-11-22: 19 files
/local/path/2023-11-21: 12 files
/local/path/2023-11-25: 77 files
/local/path/2023-11-20: 3 files

Summary:
Total files found: 136
Total files moved: 136

No invalid files found.

⚖️ License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License for more information.