N.B There was over 1GB in duplicate files.Īlso, some files especially libraries that get saved when you save a webpage turned up in multiple locations, and they were also listed as duplicates.
I ended up with two apps, but in the end I was disappointed as although both were smart enough to detect duplicates (even had options to use the hash analysis), I still manually had to delete the duplicates one by one. To fix this, I booted up my windows PC and tried to search for applications to help with this task via and sourceforge. I should report this as a bug to dropbox. This meant I was using up between 2 to 4 times what I should actually do in storage, and I really needed to find and remove those duplicates that dropbox was making. file).Īs this would be the third/fourth time I would be undertaking this exercise – my Windows OS usually hits standstill after 365 days, requiring reformatting from my Dell Recovery partition (praises to Dell for this), I was already having ‘.4.xxxx’ files. The side effect of recovering my Dropbox folder after a system format, is that dropbox recreates every file, appending the file name -excluding the extension, with a digit i.e file-name.1.jpeg, file-name.1.docx, file-name.2.docx (if there was an existing. I use GenieTimeline for my backups on Windows and “I have found peace with it.” I’m excited to know they now have cloud backup and I can’t wait to try it out. OK, the deal breaker was getting psychopg2 to install on a virtualenv.
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