I dropped 900GB of duplicate files across my home server, and the tool that found them was free
I dropped 900GB of duplicate files across my home server, and the tool that found them was free
admin 2026/10/06 22:35I have close to 10TB of data on my NAS, including backups and a large movie library for Jellyfin.
I have close to 10TB of data on my NAS, including backups and a large movie library for Jellyfin. Some of that storage is used to keep multiple copies of the same files, and I’m responsible for a fair bit of it. I sometimes download a movie in 1080p, add the 4K release when it becomes available, and leave the older version sitting there. I also had repeated backups and plenty of identical videos saved under different names piling up.
Going through all of that manually would take more time than I want to spend cleaning up my server. I used Krokiet instead, which is a free, open-source tool, to find those files from my Mac through the NAS’s network shares. Krokiet, which superseded Czkawka, can identify exact duplicates and similar videos, which makes it useful for the different movie releases I’ve accumulated. I’ve now deleted 900GB, with redundant movie...
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I have close to 10TB of data on my NAS, including backups and a large movie library for Jellyfin. Some of that storage is used to keep multiple copies of the same files, and I’m responsible for a fair bit of it. I sometimes download a movie in 1080p, add the 4K release when it becomes available, and leave the older version sitting there. I also had repeated backups and plenty of identical videos saved under different names piling up.
Going through all of that manually would take more time than I want to spend cleaning up my server. I used Krokiet instead, which is a free, open-source tool, to find those files from my Mac through the NAS’s network shares. Krokiet, which superseded Czkawka, can identify exact duplicates and similar videos, which makes it useful for the different movie releases I’ve accumulated. I’ve now deleted 900GB, with redundant movie...
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