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Finished Programs / SOLVED: Compare locations and remove duplicate folders

« on: June 10, 2012, 06:55 AM »

Hello! Out of all the existing duplicate finders, none of them really looks for duplicate folders, only files. The closest thing I've found is this http://sourceforge.n...rojects/vfolderdups/

It really performs a duplicate search based on folder names. In addition to that I'm looking for a program that would perform 3 other things :
- A two location mode in order to compare 2 drives/locations
- Possibility to remove all duplicate folders at once (whitout right clicking on all sub folder to delete, impossble to do when there's 2000 duplicates)
- Option to identify a folder as duplicate only if it has not subfolder inside

To understand more the use I would have of it, let me give a concrete example :
I have a folder (A) of mp3 want to use to replace my existing mp3 folder (B) made with different music file type.
    A
    |____Nirvana
    | |_____1991 - Nevermind      <= mp3
    | |_____1993 - In Utero         <= mp3

    B
    |____Nirvana
    | |_____1991 - Nevermind      <= mp3
    | |_____1993 - In Utero         <= ogg
    | |_____1992 - Incesticide      <= aac

In this example, "B" folder has 2 duplicate sub-folders (Nevermind and In Utero) so they will be removed. NOTE :
    - It doesn't matter if the files inside are different
    - Folders and sub-folders with different names (not existing in "A") won't be touched inside "B" (Incesticide in the example)
    - "Nirvana" folder isn't considered as a duplicate since it contains subfolders
After B folder has been processed :
    B
    |____Nirvana
    | |_____1992 - Incesticide      <= acc


It could look a bit like this :

Thanks to all !