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[SFR]

Minimalistic right-click app that may be helpful in finding large, redundant files, for instance: to keep your savefile slim and healthy.
Gdmap has too fuzzy look (as for me), pfind has too many options as for such task and the ROX-Filer's 'find' function is powerful, but too inconvenient in use for me, so I wrote this one.

Usage:
1. Right-click on any folder -> Dir '...' -> Large Files Finder
2. Sometimes it takes some time to find all of them...
3. The list of files will appear, already sorted by size (descending).
4. Double click on an item to locate it using ROX-Filer.

Limitation:
Due to use of | as delimiter (required by <tree> widget), files with | in its filename won't be processed properly.
But I think it's rare enough (I've never seen one), so acceptable.
Everything else, like *? :'\" is ok...

Works with recent versions of Lucid, Slacko, Wary and Saluki (if ROX-Filer is installed).
Written in Lupu-528.005.

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Update 2012-04-26, version 1.1:
- Added: now works also with links to folders
- Added: now finds all kinds of files, except directories
- Added: localisation by don570
- Added: can be launched from terminal window without specyfing the full path to the app (useful for testing), eg.: lff /path/to/folder (thanks to don570)

EDIT: Small bug with displaying "Total size:", corrected now.

Greetings!

[don570]

It works well and can be useful given the difficulty in using pfind!!
I'll put in my right click package.

I noticed that links are ignored. For instance

/root/puppy-preference/audio will seem to be empty.



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[SFR]

Hi Don.

Thanks for putting it in "Right click apps" suite.

As for links exclusion:
Well, at the beginning it was "semi-intentional" decision (find's -type parameter can hold only one letter: d=dir, l=link, f=file, etc.).
"Minor problem" I said to myself, as the size of links is (AFAIK) always below 1k.
But, to be honest, it would be more elegant to include links too, so I did a small research and found that the secret was: find ! -type d
and now LFF is able to find all kinds of files (regular files, links, devices, etc.) except directories.
Of course to find any link, the size at the initial window must be set to 0 or erased.

Another upgrade:
Until now LFF's right-click worked only with folders and (I didn't mention this earlier) mount points.
Now it works also with links to folders, eg. /mnt/home, which is (in my case) link to /initrd/mnt/dev_save.

First post updated.

EDIT: