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DupKiller - find and remove duplicate files
by Jason Clarke Aug 17th 2006 at 11:50AM
Okay, I'll admit it - this is one of those utilities that scares me a little. While I find it amazing to note that I have over 300 Megs of duplicated files in my file system, I haven't got the nerve to start deleting the duplicates for fear that I might break something. However, that doesn't mean that DupKiller, a tool whose whole purpose revolves around removing duplicate files, isn't worth having on my system.
Even though I don't want to globally remove all duplicated files from my system, I do want to be able to go through specific folders (like my music file or picture folders) and remove duplicate files. For that type of task, DupKiller is exactly what the doctor ordered. Just don't get sucked in to removing all duplicated files from your system - it's just not worth it to see if it ends up breaking anything.
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Ali Karbassi said 12:55PM on 8-17-2006
The website seems to be down due to traffic. Google pointed me to Tucows for the download.
http://www.tucows.com/preview/406021
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Robb Topolski said 2:53PM on 8-17-2006
If you have XP and NTFS drives, a better way would be to use the Duplicate File Hard Linker (DFHL). This detects duplicate files and replaces the directory entries with hard links to a single copy of the file. This is safe because the file is not erased unless all of the links to it are gone.
It's a command line utility, and it's free.
http://www.jensscheffler.de/dfhl_en.html
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Peter said 3:39PM on 8-17-2006
With the size of modern hard drives what's the point?
Who cares if your 250 Gig drive has an extra 300 megs on it? Unless you have several copies of a multi-Gig file it's not even worth the time, effort or risk to find and remove the duplicates.
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almonimus said 4:52PM on 8-17-2006
There's a program called Dup Detector that finds duplicate images, not necssary exactly, but can be different by format, resolution, JPEG compression, added watermarks etc:
http://www.freeware-guide.com/rareware/DupDetector.html
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almonimus said 4:52PM on 8-17-2006
There's a program called Dup Detector that finds duplicate images, not necssary exactly, but can be different by format, resolution, JPEG compression, added watermarks etc:
http://www.freeware-guide.com/rareware/DupDetector.html
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Teo said 10:18AM on 8-18-2006
The best tool for duplicate files I found is Advanced Uninstaller - http://www.innovative-sol.com/uninstaller
It has lots and lots of options related to finding duplicate files.
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Allan Braun said 9:19PM on 9-13-2006
A great tool for finding duplicate files is: Directory Report
It can find duplicate files and duplicate directories.
http://www.file-utilities.com/downloads/wdir.zip
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