The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/NSK94 on 2024-07-08 18:04:34.
Because of moving data from multiple laptops to mine last year, I had plenty of duplicates so I decided to use Czkawka to get rid of them. Because I am paranoid and because there are really important family pictures in there, I had everything backed up to another drive before doing this.
I used both the duplicate finder and the visual similarity tool and I went manually through each group (again because I am paranoid and this was my first time using the software). I made sure that I did not select all and I even manually unselected some items in certain cases. All was good.
Then I try the empty directory search and I find a few folders that should absolutely not be empty. I check the other backup I made and there are images that are supposed to be in those folders and they have no duplicates elsewhere. It's not all folders, just about 20% of the ones in my picture folder.
Thankfully, I have the backup and can just download them again but does anyone know what I could have done wrong to lead to this? I love the tool and want to use it again in the future on other folders but I do not want to risk everything being gone.
Thank you