Summary

Completed a broad S-drive hash-confirmed duplicate purge. The run kept one ranked truth source per SHA-256 duplicate group, backed up every lower-ranked duplicate copy, deleted 2,917 duplicate files, refreshed the workbook, and added an Aggressive Actions tab showing every keep/delete decision.

Scope

Target: S: mapped to \server05Operations.

Source: duplicate_hash_confirmed_groups_current.csv.

Rule: keep one best-ranked truth source per hash-confirmed duplicate group, delete the rest after backup.

Exclusion: remaining filename+size-only candidates were not deleted because their hashes do not match.

Results

• First aggressive batch deleted: 2,915.
• Second aggressive batch deleted: 2.
• Total deleted after backup: 2,917.
• Total kept as truth sources in action manifest: 2,823.
• Combined action manifest rows: 5,740.
• Deleted bytes: 590,002,993.
• Final file count: 99,384.
• Final filename+size candidate rows: 1,347.
• Final hash-confirmed duplicate rows: 0.
• Final hash-confirmed duplicate groups: 0.
• Final Forms duplicate rows: 0.
• Hash errors: none.