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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.
What's new in this version: Version 1.4.4 is a bug-fixing release.
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Current version:
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"It's free and it worked"
Version: Duplicate Cleaner 1.4.4
Pros
It's free and it worked. Got rid of my many dupes in iTunes and I reclaimed 3% of my hard drive.
Cons
It found a lot of dupes in my iTunes library and I wasn't 100% sure which version I should keep and whether it was only deleting the files I thought it was deleting. But my judgment turned out to be right (it seems).
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"Does the Job"
Version: Duplicate Cleaner 1.4.4
Pros
It's quick and gives me lots of control.
Cons
None. I didn't think it was too complex at all. Just read the screens carefully before deleting anything (but you'd do that with any tool, right?).
Summary
I had inadvertently deleted some pictures, so restored many pictures from backup, creating lots of duplicates. Duplicate finder found many of them (not the ones I had modified and renamed since creating the backup, of course). Saved a lot of my time.
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"Great, Complete Program!!!"
Version: Duplicate Cleaner 1.4.4
Pros
This is the 7th duplicate file finder I have tried and it wored perfectly!
Cons
Interface is a bit bland.
Summary
I am trying to fix a messed up music directory and this is the only program I have tried that could search files by artist and other tag information.
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"Bit to complicated for older folks"
Version: Duplicate Cleaner 1.4.4
Pros
None I could use
Cons
to difficute to use, may delete files needed for nornal operation, since windows upgrade duplicates files(is Vista to W7) numerous files show up but only a pro,user might know what to delete or not.Needs to select and delete auto.,based on computer.
Summary
See above not for the novice user
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"Local Drives Only"
Version: Duplicate Cleaner 1.4.4
Pros
I didnt run the program since it didnt have the option I needed, however looking through the settings and option it would appear to work well for local drives.
Cons
It doesnt allow to search network drives, unfortunately. Many of us now have home networks and keep our music and movies on a "home theater pc" or storage server, but do most of our daily activities and work from a different machine on the network.
Summary
I would have to install this program on each machine which isnt convenient.
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"Does what it says."
Version: Duplicate Cleaner 1.4.4
Pros
Easy to use. Simple operation.
Cons
Not very polished.
Summary
Simple and effective. Found all of my duplicate pictures on my system. I'm keeping this one.
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"Not a keeper"
Version: Duplicate Cleaner 1.4.4
Pros
Not sure of the pros because I din't follow through with using it.
Cons
The interface was confusing
Summary
I was afraid of data loss so I uninstalled it and used the Auslogics dupe finder instead.
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"LOVE It!!! Works as stated and is very thorough."
Version: Duplicate Cleaner 1.4.4
Pros
Finds all duplicates and allows you to choose what you want to do. Works great. Very powerful.
Cons
Takes time. but was much faster than expected. Some learning curve for User Interface easily understood via help.
Summary
finds all duplicates, across multiple hard drives (internal and external). Easy to use once you are familiar with interface. Great Program especially as freeware.
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"It's free it's good"
Version: Duplicate Cleaner 1.4.4
Pros
Does what it says, easy use.
Cons
I 'd like more filters for advance search criteria
Summary
It help everyone tide up Chaos
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"Serves it's purpose very well. Finds all similar files."
Version: Duplicate Cleaner 1.4.4
Pros
Helped me clear some space off my hard drive
Cons
Takes a bit too long to index with large amounts of data
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