dupfilesremover 0.3.0.6

Duplicate files remover

# dupfilesremover

Tool for duplicate files removing.

Removes duplicate files existing with same or different name in on one or more folder(s).

For example, I do backups of my photos over multiple devices, and sometimes I can have same photo copied multiple times. It can happen when I move photo from one folder to another.

This tool, helps me find duplicates of a same file, when it’s stored in multiple folders or there are multiple copies in a same folder but with a different names.

## Use case

For example, let’s assume that same image available (with different names) in:

• Folders data1, data2 and data3

• Sub-folders of any of these folders (for example data1/new images/best)

We want to remove all duplicates and follow these rules:

• Recursively remove all duplicates and save only one file

• In case if duplicates will be in same folder - save file with the shortest name

• Save images from data1 folder (or sub-folders of data1 in case if identical files also available in data2 and data3)

• In case if file will be found in any of data1 sub-folders save with the shortest path

To do this we may just run:

` python -m dupfilesremover --recurse .\data1 .\data2 .\data3 `

Basically the folders order in the command line will define priorities of the copies if more than one will be found. As a result, data1 will have the highest priority and inside data1 files with shorter file name and shortest path will have precedence.

## How to install

You can install from PyPi just by using:

` pip install dupfilesremover `

Or you can install from GitHub by using pip:

` pip install git+https://github.com/JFF-Bohdan/dupfilesremover `

Or just clone and install from source code:

` git clone https://github.com/JFF-Bohdan/dupfilesremover.git cd dupfilesremover python setup.py install `

## Usage

You can use tool like:

`shell dupfilesremover --recurse tmp/folder1 tmp/folder2 tmp/folder3 `

In this example we are going to analyse folders tmp/folder1, tmp/folder2 and tmp/folder3 for duplicate files and remove them.

If you would like to perform dry-run (no action files removal, just analysis), you can use:

`shell dupfilesremover --dry-run --recurse tmp/folder1 tmp/folder2 tmp/folder3 `