![]() I was able to do this with CCleaner's duplicate finder, but DupeGuru has since found duplicates that CCleaner missed.Īgain, if two copies of the same file exist and you make one of them a link to the other, you lose the ability to change just one. I run DupeGuru on file server and it finds hundreds of duplicates.Īnother issue I'm having (with DupeGuru itself) is I can't just seem to "select all" of the second instance of the duplicate files to delete them in batch. The problem is there are far too many (at least potential) shortcuts to duplicates for me to know of. I don't see the issue if you remove the duplicate and on it's place leave a shortcut leading to the original. Pointers under the file level (block level dedupe) allows two duplicate files in two locations to point to the same location on disk, but unlike a symlink, if someone edits one of them, the unedited one doesn't change. Sometimes there are legitimate reasons to have duplicate data. Symlinks don't help if you have two people who want to be able to edit their own copy of the duplicate. Things stay organized without needing 2 copies of a 4-8gb dvd. I have all our movies and tv shows in a main folder that my kids don't have access to, but i create symbolic links of their moves and shows to folders that my kids do have access to. If you do it after hours no one should even notice. Delete the duplicated and replace them with symbolic links. I would ignore the smaller files and just focus on anything large. ![]() Seems it should work with Server 2008 although i have not tested it. ![]() If some kind of auto-deduplication is not an option (i don't know of one for server 2008) then manually creating symbolic links is the next way to go. ![]() Shortcuts won't help when there are files that are hardlinked to others - like was mentioned earlier about access linking to excel files, or vice versa. ![]()
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