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Duplicate file cleaning
I have very little knowledge of ReadyNAS and Raid, I would appreciate some direction. When I review my files on my RN10400 I seem to have a fair amount of files that are duplicates both in the same a...
No1Husker wrote:
I noticed a competitor to Netgear uses an add on package or program call Storage Analyzer. I was hoping Netgear had something simular?
There is no app for ReadyNAS that I know of that will do this.
I had a similar issue a while back - needing to consolidate files from a bunch of thumb drives and USB drives that my parents had made. I used a Windows app to find duplicates (creatively named "Duplicate Files Finder"). However, that utility didn't give me a way to delete the duplicates. I created a batch file to do that bit. There likely are other Windows utilities that would locate them and give you an option to delete the duplicates. Some might require you to map the share(s) to drive letter(s) on the PC.
FWIW, I make incremental backups to the same folder, and use custom snapshots for retention/rollback - which reduces the problem for your use case. Though I'm sure I do have duplicate files in different shares, and it would be nice to have an add-on to locate and manage them.
I use Fast Duplicate File Finder. The free version works great for true dupicates.
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