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FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories.
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Is there any way to match based on the first x MB of the file? #154

Open salamanders opened 3 years ago

salamanders commented 3 years ago

I saw in the features that it does a MD5 of the start of the file, then continues on to the full comparison. Is there any way to see the files that passed that first filter?

The reason I ask: I was copying some large files, but the copy got killed half way, so I may have some files where only the first half of the file is in the destination. Comparing the first MB of every file would find the interrupted files.

adrianlopezroche commented 3 years ago

There's no way to do this without modifying the program.

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021, 12:50 PM Benjamin Hill @.***> wrote:

I saw in the features that it does a MD5 of the start of the file, then continues on to the full comparison. Is there any way to see the files that passed that first filter?

The reason I ask: I was copying some large files, but the copy got killed half way, so I may have some files where only the first half of the file is in the destination. Comparing the first MB of every file would find the interrupted files.

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