It searches for similar music files using AI, which uses machine learning to remove parentheses from a phrase, e.g. with this option enabled, the files in question will be considered duplicates:
Czkawka offers 3 types of hashes, which could be used:
Blake3 - cryptographic hash function. It is used as default hash algorithm, because it is very fast.
CRC32 - simple hash function. It should be faster than Blake3, but probably may have very rarely some collisions.
XXH3 - very similar in case of performance and hash quality to Blake3, so such modes can be easily used.
duplicate_check_method_tooltip =
For now, Czkawka offers three types of method to find duplicates by:
Name - Finds files which have same name.
Size - Finds files which have same size.
Hash - Finds files which have the same content. This mode hashes file and later compare this hashes to find duplicates. This mode is the safest way to find duplicates. Tool heavily uses cache, so second and further scans of same data should be a lot of faster that first.
image_hash_size_tooltip =
Czkawka offers changing size of generated hash for each images. Bigger hash cause allows to finds images with lower amount of differences between images, but also it is a little slower to use.
Default value for hash is 8 bytes, which allows to find very similar and different images. 16 and 32 hashes should be used only for nearly identical images. 64 bytes hash shouldn't be used, except situation where really small differences are needed to find
image_resize_filter_tooltip =
To compute hash of image, library must first resize it. Depend on choosen algorithm, resulted image will looks little different. The fastest algotithm to use, but also one which gives the worst results is Nearest.
image_hash_alg_tooltip =
Users can choose one from many algorithms of calculating hash. Each have both strong and weaker points and will give sometimes better and sometimes worse results for different images, so to choose the best one, manual testing is required.
upper_notebook_included_directories = Included Directories
upper_allowed_extensions_tooltip =
Allowed extensions must be separated by commas(by default all are available)
Macros IMAGE, VIDEO, MUSIC, TEXT which adds multiple extensions at once are also available.
Usage example ".exe, IMAGE, VIDEO, .rar, 7z" - this means that image(e.g. jpg, png), video(e.g. avi, mp4), exe, rar and 7z files will be scanned.
upper_excluded_items_tooltip =
Excluded items must contains * wildcard and should be separated by commas.
This is slower than Excluded Directories, so use it carefully.
upper_excluded_items = Excluded Items:
upper_allowed_extensions = Allowed Extensions:
# Popovers
popover_select_all = Select all
popover_unselect_all = Unselect all
popover_reverse = Reverse Selection
popover_select_all_except_oldest = Select all except oldest
popover_select_all_except_newest = Select all except newest
popover_select_one_oldest = Select one oldest
popover_select_one_newest = Select one newest
popover_select_custom = Select custom
popover_unselect_custom = Unselect custom
popover_select_all_images_except_biggest = Select all except biggest
popover_select_all_images_except_smallest = Select all except smallest
popover_custom_path_check_button_entry_tooltip =
Allows to select records by its path.
Example usage:
/home/pimpek/rzecz.txt can be found with /home/pim*
popover_custom_name_check_button_entry_tooltip =
Allows to select records by file names.
Example usage:
/usr/ping/pong.txt can be found with *ong*
popover_custom_regex_check_button_entry_tooltip =
Allows to select records by specified Regex.
With this mode, searched text is Path with Name
Example usage:
/usr/bin/ziemniak.txt can be found with /ziem[a-z]+
This use default Rust regex implementation, so you can read more about it in https://docs.rs/regex.
popover_custom_not_all_check_button_tooltip =
Prevents from selecting all records in group.
This is enabled by default, because in most of situations user don't want to delete both original and duplicates files, but want to leave at least one file.
Warning: This setting don't work if already user selected all results in group manually.
popover_custom_regex_path_label = Path
popover_custom_regex_name_label = Name
popover_custom_regex_regex_label = Regex Path + Name
popover_custom_all_in_group_label = Don't select all records in group
popover_custom_mode_unselect = Unselect Custom
popover_custom_mode_select = Select Custom
popover_invalid_regex = Regex is invalid
popover_valid_regex = Regex is valid
# Bottom buttons
bottom_search_button = Search
bottom_select_button = Select
bottom_delete_button = Delete
bottom_save_button = Save
bottom_symlink_button = Symlink
bottom_hardlink_button = Hardlink
bottom_move_button = Move
bottom_search_button_tooltip = Start to search for files/folders
bottom_select_button_tooltip = Selects records. Only selected files/folders can be later processed.
Allows to delete outdated cache results which points to non-existent files.
When enabled, app make sure when loading records, that all points to valid files and ignore broken ones.
Disabling this option, will help to scan files on external drives, so cache entries about them will not be purged in next scan.
In case of having hundred of thousands records in cache, it is suggested to enable this option, to speedup cache loading and saving at start and end of scan.
Hides all files except one, if are points to same data(are hardlinked).
E.g. in case where on disk there is 7 files which are hardlinked to specific data and one different file with same data but different inode, then in duplicate finder will be visible only one unique file and one file from hardlinked ones.
settings_duplicates_minimal_size_entry_tooltip =
Allows to set minimal size of file, which will be cached.
Choosing smaller value, will generate more records which will speedup search, but slowdown cache loading/saving.
settings_duplicates_prehash_checkbutton_tooltip =
Enables caching of prehash(hash computed from small part of file) which allows to earlier throw out non duplicated results.
It is disabled by default because can cause in some situations slowdowns.
It is heavily recommended to use it when scanning hundred of thousands or million files, because it can speedup search multiple times.
settings_duplicates_prehash_minimal_entry_tooltip = Minimal size of cached entry.
settings_duplicates_hide_hard_link_button = Hide hard links(only Linux and MacOS)
settings_duplicates_prehash_checkbutton = Use prehash cache
settings_duplicates_minimal_size_cache_label = Minimal size of files in bytes saved to cache
settings_duplicates_minimal_size_cache_prehash_label = Minimal size of files in bytes saved to prehash cache
## Saving/Loading settings
settings_saving_button_tooltip = Save current settings configuration to file.
settings_loading_button_tooltip = Load settings from file and replace current configuration with them.
settings_reset_button_tooltip = Reset current configuration to default one.
settings_load_orphan_data = Found invalid header in line {$line_number} \"{$line}\" when loading file {$name} (save file may be from different Czkawka version)
settings_load_invalid_bool_value = Found invalid header in line {$line_number} \"{$line}\" which isn't proper value(0/1/true/false) when loading file {$name}