chatgpt does have what they call hallucinations. I've had some success with find. As I recall you will need to run updatedb before running find. I've never used any advanced searches so I look forward to hearing the solutions of others. On 2024-09-28 21:06, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: > About a year ago I messed up by accidently copying a folder with > other folders into another folder. I'm running out of room and need to > find that directory tree and get rid of it. All I know for certain is > that it is somewhere in my home directory. I THINK it is my pictures > directory with ARW files. > chatgpt told me to use fdupes but it told me to use an exclude option > (which I found out it doesn't have) to avoid config files (and I was > planning on adding to that as I discovered other stuff I didn't want). > then it told me to use find but I got an error which leads me to > believe it doesn't know what it's talking about!coul;d someone help me > out? > -- > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss