The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/urbanracer34 on 2024-12-29 14:28:00.

To make a long story short, I have 24TB of data, a significant chunk being movies and TV shows. I have to back up most of it due to hardware failure. I have an 18TB External hard drive.

A lot of these are duplicates I can hopefully just copy over once, and rebuild some of my media collection somewhat from that.

So how can I use Windows to list all of the files in these directories and help me cross reference which are duplicates?

EDIT1: Hope I’m not too late, but I forgot to mention where the files reside are on a network share!

EDIT2: I can discard 2.75TB of the data because it is Time Machine backups and I can always redo them.