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submitted 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) by lunatique@lemmy.ml to c/foss@beehaw.org

AVAIL4: Linux, Windows, Mac

Features

• Written in memory-safe Rust - almost 100% unsafe code free

• Amazingly fast - due to using more or less advanced algorithms and multithreading

• Free, Open Source without ads

• Multiplatform - works on Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD and many more

• Cache support - second and further scans should be much faster than the first one

• CLI frontend - for easy automation

• GUI frontend - uses GTK 4 or Slint frameworks

• No spying - Czkawka does not have access to the Internet, nor does it collect any user information or statistics

• Multilingual - support multiple languages like Polish, English or Italian

• Multiple tools to use:

• Duplicates - Finds duplicates based on file name, size or hash

• Empty Folders - Finds empty folders with the help of an advanced algorithm

• Big Files - Finds the provided number of the biggest files in given location

• Empty Files - Looks for empty files across the drive

• Temporary Files - Finds temporary files

• Similar Images - Finds images which are not exactly the same (different resolution, watermarks)

• Similar Videos - Looks for visually similar videos

• Same Music - Searches for similar music by tags or by reading content and comparing it

• Invalid Symbolic Links - Shows symbolic links which point to non-existent files/directories

• Broken Files - Finds files that are invalid or corrupted

• Bad Extensions - Lists files whose content not match with their extension

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[-] oeuf@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 hours ago

This is excellent software.

[-] lunatique@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

Indeed, it is very useful. Over the years I transferred files around, copy and pasted from one distro to another and ended up with plenty of duplicates i didn't even realized.

It helped me not manually search for them all.

this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2025
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