![]() ![]() Thanks to a kind soul on IRC, I have finally found the de-duping love of my life. I’ve wanted a programme like this for ages, without really taking the time to find it. “eeps, I haven’t made a backup in some time, let me put a copy of my home directory somewhere” (pre-Time Machine)Įnter dupeGuru.“Sally, let me just make a copy of your user directory here before I upgrade your OS/put in a bigger hard drive, just in case things go wrong”.“heck, do I have a second copy of this data somewhere? let’s make one here just in case”. ![]() “I don’t have quite enough space on my MacBook HDD anymore, let’s move this onto an external drive”.an external 110Gb HDD, containing disk images of various installation DVDs, and quite a lot of undefined junk, most of it mine, some of it others’Īs you can see, “undefined junk” comes back often.an external 250Gb HDD, initially to store a mirror of my MacBook HDD when it was only 250Gb, then filled with undefined junk, most of it mine, some of it others’.an external 320Gb HDD, initially to store photos and videos, in practice filled with undefined junk, most of it mine, some of it others’.a 500Gb HDD in my MacBook, which hit “full” some time back before I freed up some space by moving stuff to an external HDD.One of the consequences of putting an SSD into my MacBook and using CrashPlan and an Amahi home server to store my data and backups is that I have been forced to do a little digital spring-cleaning. ![]()
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