{"id":1077,"date":"2024-10-03T00:11:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T23:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2025-04-09T09:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T08:11:09","slug":"fdupes-gui-v0-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2024\/10\/03\/fdupes-gui-v0-2-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Fdupes-gui v0.2.1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2021, I mashed together this quick utility, a very simple gui front-end to <code>fdupes<\/code> because I needed to clean up a bunch of documents. It was also an experiment in trying out <a href=\"https:\/\/flutter.dev\/multi-platform\/desktop\">Flutter Desktop<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year I released it to the public on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mx1up\/fdupes-gui\">github<\/a>, more as an educational tool for people wanting to see some flutter desktop app source. Because these days, I&#8217;m forced to work on macOS, I also released a mac version of an app for the first time in my life. &#x1f633;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turns out, there is <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mx1up\/fdupes-gui\/issues\/1\">1 other person in the world<\/a>, who used my app. He noticed the app wouldn&#8217;t find the <code>fdupes<\/code> exec if it was launched from the gui. It was a known shortcoming, but this bug report triggered me to make a better effort. &#x1f609;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mx1up\/fdupes-gui\/releases\/tag\/release%2F0.2.1\">v0.2.1<\/a>, 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mx1up\/fdupes-gui\/releases\/tag\/release%2F0.2.1\">Available for linux and macOS<\/a>, windows might follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2024\/10\/03\/fdupes-gui-v0-2-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fdupes-gui v0.2.1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,4,46,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fdupes-gui","category-linux","category-macos","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}