If you select the option of “show duplicates only”, only duplicate files will be visible in the window, so that you can easily select and delete these files. To do this, select the duplicate file, or select the option with “show duplicates only” written in the menu bar. You can delete the duplicate file, rename it, or copy / move it to another location. As you can see, in the screenshot below, there is a duplicate file in my download directory. Once the selected directory contains duplicate files, it will display the duplicate files in the window. Click the scan button to start looking for duplicate files. You can start dupeguru from the unity panel or menu.Ĭlick the + button at the bottom to add the file directory you want to scan. To install dupeguru, type the following commands in the terminal: Install dupeguru in Ubuntu 14.10/14.04/13.10/13.04/12.04ĭupeguru developers have built an Ubuntu PPA (personal package archives) to simplify the installation process. It supports English, French, German, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Italian, Armenian, Russian, Ukrainian, Brazilian and Vietnamese. At the same time, you can also adjust dupeguru to accurately find duplicate files of specific file types and remove certain files from the files you want to delete. By using a fast fuzzy matching algorithm, it can find duplicate files in a few minutes. It can be used on Linux, windows, Mac OS X and other platforms. Its purpose is to find and remove duplicate files in the system. Need to tell those unfamiliar dupeGuru It is a free, open source and cross platform application. The dupeguru team also developed an application called dupeguru music edition to remove duplicate music files, and an application called dupeguru picture edition to remove duplicate picture files. Dupeguru may help if you’re sure you have duplicate files on your system. If we really need some disk space to store important data at this time, the above situation is undoubtedly the worst. Therefore, sooner or later, you will see the error prompt of “disk full”. No matter how careful we are, we can always copy the same file to many different places, or download the same file repeatedly without knowing it.

For us, disk filling is one of the thorny problems.

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