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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.
Duplicate Cleaner - Clean up duplicate files on your hard drive or corporate network - Download Video Previews: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: Duplicate content detection now uses more accurate MD5 Hashing by default. Now supports M4A and M4P audio files (Apple iTunes/iPod).
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All versions:
4.1 starsout of 317 votes
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Current version:
4.4 starsout of 25 votes
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"Great little utility. Love it"
Version: Duplicate Cleaner 1.4.3
Pros
Fast, has a number of options and works very well
Cons
when moving files to duplicate folder it's a little slow, but you can live with that because the rest of the options are outstanding
Summary
The price is right. I strongly recommend.
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"cant believe that this program is free"
Version: Duplicate Cleaner 1.4.3
Pros
small install, fast running. groups items together with same name and it shows the file types
Cons
no option to automatically delete certain duplicate file types, you have to manually select file(s) you want deleted
Summary
free program, works great, freed up about 7.5g of space just for duplicate music. a lot of my music i had re-ripped into a higher bitrate and never deleted the old files, this program allows you to see which file is larger (higher bitrate) so i can delete all of the stuff previously ripped @128k. this program is easy to use and you can search only for music or pictures or other file types if you want to. download this program you will not be dissapointed
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"Duplicate Cleaner 1.4.3 is easy to use"
Version: Duplicate Cleaner 1.4.3
Pros
I really like the listing in two colors so you can quickly identify the duplicate sets. If you're careful, this is a great utility.
Cons
Can be dangerous if used indiscriminately.
Summary
This is a utility everyone should have in their arsenal.
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"Very effective in identifying duplicates, but too slow."
Version: Duplicate Cleaner 1.4.3
Pros
Found thousands of duplicate files, and gave enough information to enable me to decide which duplicate(s) to delete.
Cons
Took nearly 24 hours to run. Much slower than other products that I have used.
Summary
Useful, but too slow.
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"excellent great job of finding duplicate photos"
Version: Duplicate Cleaner 1.4.3
Pros
I installed this with no problems on both windows 7 and xp. I had hundereds of duplicates in mulitple folders. some with same file name but different pictures.
i was able to check by exact file and name. easily and quicklyCons
only one i can think of would be a little better instruction guide
Summary
i have only used this on photos, havent tried it on mp3, The speed and ease of use
are the two best features.a great feature if you have folders of same file name with different pictures, you find duplicates by name and size at same time. This prevents deleting duplicate files with same name but different pictures -
"Easy to install, use and comprehend!"
Version: Duplicate Cleaner 1.4.3
Pros
Very userfriendly software, lots of languages available and, above all, it delivers.
Cons
Seems to skip some duplicate files some of the time, hard to figure why but do a rerun and this 'problem' is also solved.
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"very nice - but a few serious shortcomings"
Version: Duplicate Cleaner 1.4.3
Pros
works fast and accurate - great functionality - many good features
Cons
lacking a few simple but very necessary (IMO) features
Summary
A few suggestions for the developers:
1) Allow the user to re-apply search criteria to found duplicates to reduce the number of groups in the found list without having to restart a search.
2) Allow the user (manually or by selection assistant) to hide/unhide individual files or duplicate groups in the found list from being selectable.
3) Allow the user (manually or by selection assistant) to remove individual files or duplicate groups from the found list without deleting, moving or creating links.
4) Allow the selection assistant to unmark files that meet any particular selection criteria - i.e. use the selection assistant to mark all files with an "X" in the path, then go back and use the selection assistant again to unmark only those that also have a "Y" in the path. Allow for repeated use of the selection assistant to continue marking and unmarking files.
5) When using the selection assistant to select oldest or newest file date: if all files in a group have the same date/time, then select all but one.
These are just the things that jumped out at me after using Duplicate Cleaner for the first time. Maybe I missed something in the options that would solve some of these issues. Thanks for a great product. -
"Worked as described"
Version: Duplicate Cleaner 1.4.3
Pros
Easy to set up and use, recommend that you only scan folders such as my pictures, my music or my documents to start.
Cons
If you scan whole PC, you might get overloaded....
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"Excellent !"
Version: Duplicate Cleaner 1.4.3
Pros
Fast, very good for find/delete music files, wizard to select files to delete
Cons
None so far
Summary
This is a must to have specially if you have a large music library
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"Great tool to clean up my music library"
Version: Duplicate Cleaner 1.4.3
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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