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Duplicate File Finder

April 13th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

One of the best ways to free up space on a Hard Drive is to remove duplicate files. It’s amazing sometimes how easy it is to save the same file in two places without realising it.

Sometimes the problem is applications that make duplicate copies of files, which in some instances can cause that app to misbehave.

Find Duplicate files

A quick way to locate and remove duplicate files to free up space is to use Duplicate File Finder. This great program does what it says on the box and scans your HDD for duplicate files with 100% accuracy. Once you’ve found a list of culprits then they can be quickly deleted.

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#1

Comment by Ashish Mohta on 14 April 2007:

Sounds like this tool is very famous. Saw it on JohnTP blog also. Nice post , I hope this is not heavy on the system. Does it have a undo thing?
#2

Comment by Tony Williams on 14 April 2007:

Recylcle bin
#3

Pingback by Encuentra archivos duplicados at powerpymes.com on 18 April 2007:

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#4

Comment by Alexander Fedoseev on 11 May 2007:

If needs searching for similar music and graphic files, that possible uses this duplicate file finder.
#5

Comment by David Jacques-Louis on 20 February 2008:

Yap, this thing works
#6

Comment by Kristian on 12 March 2008:

The problem with Duplicate File Finder and all similar programs is that it takes a long time and lots of work to clean out your clones when there are many of them. Since the clones a presented in a long list you have to go through each file and decide whether you want to keep or delete it.

Some program solve this by having automatic tools that deletes all clone files but the most recently changed one. To me it seems a bit dary to let the program delete files without total user control.

Clone Tools is a new program on the market that solves this problems by working with folders containing clones instead of clone files directly. You can compare those folders in a twin browser presenting the folder contents side by side. Clone files and folders can be deleted, moved etc or you can dedupe folders by merging them, or erasing all clones in one specific folder with one mouse click.

This method is both fast and safe as you always see exaclty what clones you are deleting.

Read more about Clone Tools and download a free trial version from