Hi
Rather odd problem here - I recently did a clean install of 10.4 and used backintime to reinstate my home partition. I think a problem occurred as what appears to have happened is that 2 copies of a significant number of files are now on my system. 1 copy has the original name and the other copy bears the file name and a suffix backup. 20100428. It's not happened to all files however suggesting that something interrupted the restore process.
I don't want to go through the files one by one, so can anyone kindly suggest a routine whereby I can remove the duplicates?
TIA
No answer needed - Was able to do a search with Kfind and right click on the files and send to the wastebin. There were over 5000 of them weighing in at 4Gb. From what I can tell it would seem that the backup file suffix was only allocated to duplicates (or at least that's how it looks )
Rather odd problem here - I recently did a clean install of 10.4 and used backintime to reinstate my home partition. I think a problem occurred as what appears to have happened is that 2 copies of a significant number of files are now on my system. 1 copy has the original name and the other copy bears the file name and a suffix backup. 20100428. It's not happened to all files however suggesting that something interrupted the restore process.
I don't want to go through the files one by one, so can anyone kindly suggest a routine whereby I can remove the duplicates?
TIA
No answer needed - Was able to do a search with Kfind and right click on the files and send to the wastebin. There were over 5000 of them weighing in at 4Gb. From what I can tell it would seem that the backup file suffix was only allocated to duplicates (or at least that's how it looks )
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