In 2021, I mashed together this quick utility, a very simple gui front-end to fdupes because I needed to clean up a bunch of documents. It was also an experiment in trying out Flutter Desktop.
Last year I released it to the public on github, more as an educational tool for people wanting to see some flutter desktop app source. Because these days, I’m forced to work on macOS, I also released a mac version of an app for the first time in my life. 😳
Turns out, there is 1 other person in the world, who used my app. He noticed the app wouldn’t find the fdupes exec if it was launched from the gui. It was a known shortcoming, but this bug report triggered me to make a better effort. 😉
In v0.2.1, when the exec is not found, you can locate it manually. The location is stored so that subsequent launches automatically use fdupes from the specified location.
Available for linux and macOS, windows might follow.
Fdupes is great, finds duplicates that Czkowca, or whatever it’s spelled (dudes, why don’t y’all start naming in Latin, it’s easy to spell, nation-agnostic and stylish ), but CLI is a pain for comparing and discriminating results, so a nice GUI is a must. Fdupes-gui does a nice job, but lacks a basic feature: comparing directories. If I have 2 Docs folders in different partitions and know I have several dupes on them, it should be possible to select both folders and let your program call fdupes to scan. This is something old Fslint and it’s sucessor Czkowka do very well: you can choose two or mode directories and they will look into them for dupes and show the results clearly identifying them.
Please, add this feature if you can. It would make Fdupes-gui even better.
Cheers
So basically, you would like to add multiple directories, instead of currently only 1? Do I understand correctly?
Please file an issue on github: https://github.com/mx1up/fdupes-gui/issues/new
I don’t find this tool Czkowca you’re talking of..
Exactly: adding several directories so one can search for dupes in, let’s say, /home/user/Documents/ and in /run/media/user/ExternalMedia/Documents/ and maybe also in some other of Documents folder I once used and it’s still plenty of texts.
I know Github but don’t have an account, I’m no developer nor have any clue about software development, sorry
Sorry, I misspelled it, it has a hard to remember name. It’s Czkawka:
https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka
ok, thanks for the feedback! I created a github issue, you can track progress there if you like: https://github.com/mx1up/fdupes-gui/issues/4
I didn’t know about this czkawka project, thanks for the link.
Thanks to you for listening to my request 🙂 I’ll keep an eye on the progress.
Cheers
Hi Alex, I made a new release. please try out
more info: https://mattiesworld.gotdns.org/weblog/2025/04/13/fdupes-gui-v0-3-0/