Duplicate Movie Removal Automation?
Posted: 11 Aug 2020, 22:15
I have been looking for a solution to this for months.
Basically what I am looking for is a way to automate the process of deleting older versions of movies. Let me explain.
In plex, when I download a newer copy of a movie it shows up as a duplicate. That makes sense, if I go to the folders I do indeed have two copies of the movie. I can manually delete the older movies one at a time after hunting them down, but with 6k plus movies that’s going to take way more time and labor than I’m willing to put in.
I tried Filebots “filebot -script fn:duplicates /path/to/files” but it only lists a tiny fraction of the actual duplicates, and it’s options do not allow for “delete oldest copy” … only “Delete lower quality”… which is not what I’m looking for.
For example I have two copies of the cartoon Aladdin. Both are the same resolution but one is has a slightly lower bitrate - in this case the newer copy. The reason I want to keep the one with the lower bitrate is because the filesize is less than half of the other, with no perceptible difference.
Can anyone point me in the right direction for finding duplicates and deleting the older one? (Last modified date).
Thanks!
Basically what I am looking for is a way to automate the process of deleting older versions of movies. Let me explain.
In plex, when I download a newer copy of a movie it shows up as a duplicate. That makes sense, if I go to the folders I do indeed have two copies of the movie. I can manually delete the older movies one at a time after hunting them down, but with 6k plus movies that’s going to take way more time and labor than I’m willing to put in.
I tried Filebots “filebot -script fn:duplicates /path/to/files” but it only lists a tiny fraction of the actual duplicates, and it’s options do not allow for “delete oldest copy” … only “Delete lower quality”… which is not what I’m looking for.
For example I have two copies of the cartoon Aladdin. Both are the same resolution but one is has a slightly lower bitrate - in this case the newer copy. The reason I want to keep the one with the lower bitrate is because the filesize is less than half of the other, with no perceptible difference.
Can anyone point me in the right direction for finding duplicates and deleting the older one? (Last modified date).
Thanks!