Hi everyone: I know this is possibly something of a fool's errand, but I'm hoping someone has come up with some magic tool or process for more-easily cleaning up file storage than going through 12 years of files one-by-one.
As part of our DAMS project, I've run some TreeSize Pro scans on three of the 20-25 or so network storage directories. Just in those three, there are approximately 66,467 duplicate files. We initially thought about creating hardlinks for the duplicates, which will at least help the server access files more efficiently, but it won't solve the problem of actually having files all over the place that the DAMS will ultimately ingest. Another thought was to do symlinks, but as far as I know, there aren't easy tools to automagically create these for Windows desktops or servers. Plus, it might create havoc for all of the file permissions. So does anyone have any other ideas that I might try? Or are we really just stuck with all of this junk until someone manually goes in and cleans it up? Thanks, ~Perian
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