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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista
- Date added: September 05, 2009
- Total Downloads: 104,428
- Downloads last week: 1,468
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 73 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on May 13, 2009
Duplicate Cleaner 1.3 is a tremendously helpful program for anyone wishing to tidy up a PC by identifying and deleting duplicate files. Though simple to use, we don't recommend this for novices, because of the potential damage from mistakenly removing needed files.
Duplicate Cleaner's interface is all business. Although fairly straightforward, some odd interface choices may throw you, such as requiring you to click Select in order to see the types of available files rather than including those types in the drop-down list already visible. The program gives you three basic options for searching: folder(s), file type(s), and filter criteria. We scanned a single drive (about 12,000 folders), looking for audio files and using the CRC Checksum method for comparison. The scan took just under 6 minutes and found 19 groups of duplicates comprising 43 individual files. You can also search for files with the same file name, size, or date--or any combination thereof--and limit the search to files within a particular size range.
Once the application returns a list of results, you then have to decide what to do with the dupes. The application allows you to tick the boxes of the items you want to modify and perform an action-- Delete/Delete the Recycle Bin, Move to Folder, or Create Hardlinks (on NTFS systems only). Duplicate Cleaner can also clean up orphaned files and empty folders if you so desire. A Selection Assistant allows you to select and deselect files en masse using various criteria, such as a file name pattern match or file size.
Here is where the user interface may trip up novices or even cautious advanced users: you must first select the files you want to modify, then click a button that says Remove Selected. Files aren't deleted at this stage, however; the program opens a new window giving you the Delete/Move/Create Hardlinks options. In the end, the application tries to be safe: whatever your choice, it will ask you to confirm. If you seem to be doing something odd--such as deleting all files within a group rather than just the ones that are duplicates--the application will again ask you to confirm.
The application offers a few safety measures directly accessible from an Options file menu. Items such as Protect C\Windows and C:\Program files, etc., are selected by default. Such files will still show up in a duplicate list, and you will not see this in action until you go through with confirming the deletion of such a file. We would have preferred that protected files didn't show up in the search results at all. Still, we found that, overall, Duplicate Cleaner is an excellent optimization tool for intermediate to advanced users.
Publisher's description
From DigitalVolcano :Duplicate Cleaner is a tool to assist in cleaning up the contents of their personal hard drive or network. You'd be surprised just how many duplicate files you could find forgotten in an obscure documents folder. Photos, music, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, videos - you name it, if it appears twice on your system then Duplicate Cleaner will find it. Features - Fast duplicate detection, music deep scan, delete/move/hard link files.
Version 1.4.3 now features duplicate content detection now uses more accurate MD5 Hashing by default. Now supports M4A and M4P audio files (Apple iTunes/iPod).
What's new in this version:
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- Average user rating: 4.4 stars out of 73 votes
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Version: Duplicate Cleaner 1.4.3
"Great tool to clean up my music library"
Pros: many options to choose from, allowed me to narrow down my search results and only delete the files i wanted (ie low bit/sample rate, file size, length, etc.)
Cons: Cant think of any. pretty straight forward
Summary: use it. you will be glad you did.
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Version: Duplicate Cleaner 1.4.3
"Helped find gigs of duplicate files and folders"
Pros: Frees up space, removes files that are not necessary
Cons: can be hard to filter through 50,000 duplicate files
Summary: Would recommend to anyone looking to get rid of duplicates, but would advise to be careful what you delete and research your files before making decisions on removal
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Version: Duplicate Cleaner 1.4.3
Pros: Checks ALL of your system for duplicates. Cleaned over 8 gigs of duplicates on my system - took about 10 min. Very happy with DC 1.4.3
Cons: Semi - User Friendly, you'll get it within a few minutes.
Summary: Does what it says, and spyware free.... Awesome!
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Version: Duplicate Cleaner 1.4.3
"Works, but dangerously missing features"
Pros: The software works perfectly as it is designed. Stable even with many drives and files. Mostly intuitive user interface.
Cons: No ability to select and omit (or protect) items you didn't want accidentally deleted
No ability to mass-unselect selected files
There should be a way to select/unselect files based on *multiple* criteria, instead of only a single criterionSummary: Mostly intuitive and appears bug free..Be very careful as it will *definitely* select files by default that you do not want to remove. Absent some critical features that would make it much more useful.
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Version: Duplicate Cleaner 1.4.3
Pros: protect option stops you from deleting important files
Cons: none, maybe takes a few minutes to learn
Summary: best dupe files finder (if you have any)
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