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Details
- Package ID
- czkawka
- Version
- 8.0.0
- Downloads
- 14085
- Website
- https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka
Summary
Czkawka (tch•kav•ka, hiccup) is a simple, fast and free app to remove unnecessary files from your computer.
Description

Czkawka (tch•kav•ka, hiccup) is a simple, fast and free app to remove unnecessary files from your computer.
Features
- Written in memory safe Rust
- Amazingly fast - due to using more or less advanced algorithms and multithreading
- Free, Open Source without ads
- Multiplatform - works on Linux, Windows and macOS
- Cache support - second and further scans should be a lot faster than the first one
- CLI frontend - for easy automation
- GUI frontend - uses modern GTK 3 and looks similar to FSlint
- Rich search option - allows setting absolute included and excluded directories, set of allowed file extensions
or excluded items with the
*wildcard - Multiple tools to use:
- Duplicates - Finds duplicates based on file name, size, hash, hash of just first 1 MB of a file
- 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)
- Zeroed Files - Finds files which are filled with zeros (usually corrupted)
- Same Music - Searches for music with the same artist, album etc.
- Invalid Symbolic Links - Shows symbolic links which point to non-existent files/directories
- Broken Files - Finds files with an invalid extension or that are corrupted

Please note This is an automatically updated package. If the package is outdated for more than two days, please let me know.
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