Czkawka 5.0.2: App to delete files with a new version
Since a few days, it is already available «Czkawka 5.0.2 – 30.08.2022r». This is the fifth update of the year 2022 of said application, and although it is a small one, it brings interesting and useful things. And since, for 1 and a half we had not commented on the development of it, today we will briefly address what news this has brought us free and multiplatform app, throughout the year 2022.
It is worth specifying that this version 5.0.2Is a minor update released at the end of August de 2022, while the previous one explored, was the version 3.0.0, March 2021. And in this exploration, we cover all its features and functionalities of the moment, until its download and installation.
Czkawka: A simple and fast application to delete files in Linux
Therefore, before starting today's topic related to the new release of “Czkawka 5.0.2 – 30.08.2022r”, we will leave the following related entries for later reading:
Czkawka 5.0.2: 5th version of the year
Current features and functionalities of Czkawka
- Written in Rust in memory safe mode.
- Includes multilingual support, for the languages: Polish, English and Italian.
- It has a CLI Frontend to facilitate the required automation via terminal.
- Distributed under the MIT license, open, free and cross-platform (Windows, macOS and Linux).
- It includes a graphical user interface developed in GTK 4 with an aspect similar to that of FSlint.
- Excellent speed of work, due to the use of more advanced algorithms and multi-thread technology.
- It includes cache support, which allows subsequent scans to be much faster than previous ones.
- It does not incorporate spying or tracking technologies of any kind. It does not request any type of Internet access, nor does it collect information or statistics from users.
- It includes multiple tools to use, among which it is worth highlighting the following:
- Duplicates: To find duplicate files based on file name, size or hash.
- Empty folders: To find empty folders with the help of an advanced algorithm.
- Large files: To find the given number of the largest files in a given location.
- empty files: To search for empty files on a specific drive.
- Temporary files: To find temporary files.
- Similar images: To find images that are not exactly the same (different resolution, watermarks).
- Similar videos: To search for visually similar videos.
- similar music: To search for music with the same artist, album, and other parameters.
- Invalid symbolic links: To find and display symbolic links pointing to non-existent files/directories.
- Broken files: To find files that are invalid or damaged.
- wrong extensions: To find and display the files whose content does not match their extension.
What's new in Czkawka 5.0.2
Among the latests Moravia's compositions new arrivals highlights of this fifth version of the year 2022Called «Czkawka 5.0.2 – 30.08.2022r», we can mention the following:
- Include argument “–version” in terminal version (czkawka_cli).
- Rewrote a small nonsense message about the minimum size of a file.
- Fixed issue related to missing some similar images when similarity > 0 is used.
- Precompiled binaries for Linux now compile without HEIF (High Efficiency Image File Format) support.
- Solution of the problem related to certain blocks caused by similar videos that after a while stop being similar.
What's new from previous versions of the year 2022
And as we stated at the beginning, below we provide a brief summary with 3 news of some of the older versions of Czkawka that we do not address this year 2022:
5.0.1 - 03.08.2022
- Added more related information about the new application requirements on Linux.
- Fixed issue with trailing slash removal with empty disk window path.
- Restoration of the default sorting method in the CLI version, to make it easier to find the largest files.
5.0.0 - 28.07.2022
- Now, the graphical application GUI has been ported to GTK4.
- Added the use of multithreading and an improved algorithm for comparing hashes of scanned images.
- Added support for HEIF and Webp files, as well as support for finding smaller files and the ability to search for broken files by type.
Summary
In short, from the first and previous version explored, the 3.0.0 - 11.03.2021This new version released under the name and number «Czkawka 5.0.2 – 30.08.2022r» has grown satisfactorily, including many improvements, corrections and innovations. Managing to maintain the interest and use of the application to this day, by its growing community of users. Therefore, it will surely continue to be one of many useful, free and excellent quality tools available, when it comes to making maintenance and optimization tasks operating systems of all kinds.
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