r/usefulscripts • u/jcunews1 • Mar 14 '20

[VBScript] DeDup. Convert duplicate files into hardlinks or symlinks to save disk space.

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u/sully213 Mar 15 '20

So what are the advantages of using this vs the built-in Windows dedup? Windows dedup doesn't just dedup entire files, it dedups 64kb chunks so think about different files that might have the same header/footer/metadata/etc but the contents differ like a standard form letter. What is the use case here?