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POWERSHELL FIND DUPLICATE FILES HOW TO
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In PowerShell, use this instead: $Desktop=::GetFolderPath('Desktop')

POWERSHELL FIND DUPLICATE FILES FULL

In cmd, you can use %userprofile%\desktop\textfile.txt to indicate the full path for any username.

POWERSHELL FIND DUPLICATE FILES HOW TO

The foreach statement ensures every word is processed.Īs how to replace path, replace the "path\to\file\files.txt" with the full path of the file.įor example, if the file is named textfile.txt stored on Desktop, then it is in %userprofile%\desktop your username is username, its full path C:\Users\Username\Desktop\textfile.txt The final line outputs the content of $uniquewords to the file. The if statement means if $uniquewords doesn't contain the word, add the word to $uniquewords. notcontains is an operator that means the thing before it does not contain the thing after it(exactly what it says in its name), += is an operator that adds the thing after it to the thing before it. You said each word is in its own, separate line, then it would be simple to achieve with these codes: $words=get-content ($word in $words) is a scriptblock. The script will also be posted in my PowerShell library here.You can use PowerShell to do this, to open Powershell, use Win+R->type PowerShell -> Enter The basic idea is to create an empty array first, then check if the array already contains the word, add the word to the array only if the array does not contain the word. Write-Log "Waiting for input from user to select working directory." # User select location to find duplicate filesĪdd-Type -AssemblyName # Write to a log file in the current users MyDocs directory $logFile = "$(::GetFolderPath("mydocuments"))\DupeDeleteLog.txt"

The directory selection window likes to pop up behind the ISE window…making it look like the script is hung – check the log file for activity in your MyDocs.

Nothing is deleted unless you pass the -delete parameter to the script and confirm.

I found -1, -2 and -3 duplicate files, there could potentially be more in your case, but the script would need to be modified to accommodate for this.

Delete hyphenated or malformed date files.

Generate a SHA1 hash of each of the files to guarantee that they are actually duplicates.

Parse all of the image and video files in the directory and group them by file size where each group has more than 1 file.

Prompt the user for a path to the Camera Uploads directory.

The following script will do the following: If only there were an automated way to do this… Powershell to the Rescue I had racked up about 4000+ duplicate files and these are not small files, so there was several GB of space savings to be reclaimed. I think there is some validation in the Plex app for previously updated files, but not much. Needless to say, I have some duplicate files in my Camera Uploads directory. It has since been fixed, but in the meantime, I went back and disabled\reset the camera upload capability to try to get it working.

POWERSHELL FIND DUPLICATE FILES UPDATE

Until it doesn’t. A recent update broke the upload feature. Even switching to new devices, once the Plex app is installed and configured for upload, it just works. Initially I had some issues with the feature since I was storing files on an SMB share mounted to Linux – and when that happened, I found I needed to restart the upload to get things working. We use Plex a lot in our house – one of the major features we use is the automatic upload of photos to a library – this library is shared with parents and in-laws and it also provides a simple way to backup photos or videos taken by our phones. We now both use Google devices, so we have automatic backup to Drive for free, but I didn’t want to rely only on that. Some time ago, my wife had her phone stolen and we had not setup any sort of backup for the pictures, so a good number of photos and videos of our kids were lost that day.