Backdown helps you safely and ergonomically remove duplicate files.
Finding duplicates is easy. Cleaning the disk when there are thousands of them is the hard part. What Backdown brings is the easy way to select and remove the duplicates you don’t want to keep.
This is free and open source software.
A Backdown session goes through the following phases:
- Backdown analyzes the directory of your choice and find sets of duplicates (files whose content is exactly the same). Backdown ignores symlinks and files or directories whose name starts with a dot.
- Backdown asks you a few questions depending on the analysis. Nothing is removed at this point: you only stage files for removal. Backdown never lets you stage all items in a set of identical files.
- After having maybe looked at the list of staged files, you confirm the removals.
- Backdown does the removals on disk.
Website: github.com/Canop/backdown
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Developer: Canop
License: MIT License
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