List (and allow removal of) duplicate folders about fslint HOT 7 OPEN

Comment #1 originally posted by pixelb on 2009-06-02T22:16:35.000Z:

Yes this is a common question.
Generally we would like to support common subtree elimination.
For example if one has multiple backups and would like to merge them you could:

1. Rather than selecting a list of dirs to search, you select input dirs to merge,
   with up/down buttons in the dir list, which would define the priority for dirs
   to keep.
   Would definitely need to auto delete empty dirs when doing this merge.
2. detect duplicates and delete all in other dirs while ensuring 1 left in each group
3. mv or cp other dirs structures to keep structures (using tar/rsync?)

If the dirs have different structures then I suppose we could md5sum the list of
md5sums in a directory, for a more general solution.

more thinking required...

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Comment #2 originally posted by pixelb on 2010-02-10T09:23:36.000Z:

Issue 44 has been merged into this issue.

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Comment #3 originally posted by pixelb on 2011-02-02T08:48:16.000Z:

It's been over a year since the ticket was accepted, but I don't think it's been implemented (I haven't looked at the code, though, so correct me if I'm mistaken).

I think that even detecting duplicate directories would be a great plus.

I suggest that this issue is divided in two separate ones:

1. Detect duplicate directories. Report to the user, and offer elimination as the only choice.

2. Implement directory merging.

I know this is just organizational stuff, but I think that seeing two smaller separate tasks can make it easier for somebody to go ahead and implement one of them.
I hope this tiny change can help to get this implemented more quickly.

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Comment #4 originally posted by pixelb on 2011-08-28T21:06:56.000Z:

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Comment #5 originally posted by pixelb on 2012-05-08T17:05:43.000Z:

Issue 80 has been merged into this issue.

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Comment #6 originally posted by pixelb on 2014-07-04T08:05:56.000Z:

But if it is two folders with some (not all!) duplicate files and I want to delete files in folder-2 which are present in folder-1 - how I can do it (without long manually selecting files in duplicate-list)?

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Comment #7 originally posted by pixelb on 2014-07-04T08:20:07.000Z:

One can select by path wildcard to get this functionality

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