Clean up Duplicate Files, Symlinks, Directories in Ubuntu with an easy GUI!


I have 8TB of archived music, movies, games, applications,iso's, and documents from the past 12 years that I have saved and accumulated and have been plagued by having the same files copied in multiple locations across all my drives. Over the years I have re-downloaded music, movies, and tons of other things that I already have... It really sucks when I download something and run this application and notice I already have it... Other than this issue, I have gigs of config files that are duplicates that needed to be cleaned. So ive been using a program called FSLint, It means Filesystem Lint. So lets get to work and clean the lint from our drives shall we?

Lets install FsLint
clickme for 1-click install! or:
sudo apt-get install fslint
Ok now that FsLint is install you will be able to access it via Applications->System Tools->FSLint
As default it will have your home directory selected.

Here are the options you have to choose from:
Find Duplicate Files
Find Installed Packages
Find Bad Named files
Find Name Clashes
Find Temp Files
Find Bad/Broken Symlinks
Find Bad Id's
Find Empty Directories
Find Non-Striped Binaries
Find Redundant Whitespace

You are given Advanced Search options to exclude certain directories that dont apply to the above Search Patterns

Once you select one of the search options and select your search directory, click find, it will take a while depending on drive speed, processing power, and drive size. Once done searching it will give you options to delete the duplicates, save duplicate list and Merge.

I hope this tool is helpful to others, I personally think this tool should be integrated into nautilus.
Happy Cleaning!

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I think it only compares the file names. i would like to have a program like this, but with option to compare binaries.
Why do you think that? It uses md5sum and optionally sha1sum amongst other things. It will tag two files as identical, even if they have different names.
so helpful - i want to use some posts of your blog in my persian blog ( writing on linux ) .

thank you
1 reply · active 882 weeks ago
thanks omid, feel free to copy, just link to me in that post and give me credit for the work, on a side note is their anything you would like to see on my site?
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Morpheous · 870 weeks ago

This software is a joke. Can't even handle 1TB w/o locking the PC. If somebody knows of a similar program that actually works, please post. Thank you.

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