Hey Know How Group, I am after some advice please on a good (ok great) file de-dup piece software

[G+_Graham Green]

Hey Know How Group, I am after some advice please on a good (ok great) file de-dup piece software. Don't mind if it is osx or Windows. I need to clean up my NAS drive which I am sure has duplicated files everywhere. There is a lot of stuff out there that is garbage.

[G+_Shooter_FPV (Shooter_FP]

I think either TNSS or maybe Tekthing covered this very recently. Sorry that I can't remember which one...

[G+_Graham Green]

Ken Jancef Thanks, I have not checked out screen savers for a while. Will have a look

[G+_DigitalMatrixIO (Eric L]

What NAS? I know first hand that Synology has a duplicate file finder built in.

[G+_Graham Green]

Eric Leone QNAP, but good idea, I will check.

[G+_Juscelino Acevedo]

DigitalMatrixIO please point me towards this magical built-in duplicate file finder!?!? I am very interested in using it on my Synology.

[G+_DigitalMatrixIO (Eric L]

Juscelino Acevedo Storage Analyzer is the name of the tool.

[G+_Juscelino Acevedo]

DigitalMatrixIO Oh to the s#!%. Playing with it now. Thank you!

[G+_Ben Reese]

Juscelino Acevedo thanks I'll probably be checking that out too.

 

Graham Green? on Windows I had decent success with Duplicate Cleaner Free. I had photos from my phone synced to multiple locations through Dropbox, Syncthing, and Folder Sync. I needed a way to remove duplicates. Still a very manual process, but the tool helps it be a little less painful.

[G+_Ben Reese]

I recently built an XPenology file server. It uses Synology DSM, so all the applications available to a Synology will run on this.

 

A few days ago I checked out the Storage Analyzer and had it generate a report of duplicate files. Worked extremely well! I don't see any option to delete from there, but it was easy enough to drop the CSV into Excel and generate a PowerShell script to delete the files I don't want.

 

For me, I started organizing the files on the NAS as I copied from my old dying drive, but I wasn't real sure where I left off. So I just through all files into a folder - just to be safe. Then using the report/CSV/PowerShell, I deleted any duplicates in that catch-all folder.

 

Thanks again for the suggestion, DigitalMatrixIO!