CloneMaster for Windows

User Reviews

• Nice interface, fast and accurate.

  friesenjMarch 27, 2010

  Pros

  Much faster then v4, very easy to use, find all my duplicates and can now print the expanded list of duplicates.

  Cons

  so far nothing to complaint.

  Summary

  In general I am very please with this software, it find accurate duplicates, it find the duplicates by comparing the file data itself and not using CRC or other methods that is not 100% accurate. just love the new interface.

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• Nice UI, but reported false duplicates.

  jg4948January 12, 2010

  Pros

  The user interface is nice, and it completes the scan fast.

  Cons

  Reports too many false duplicates (in fact I gave up searching through the false duplicates before I ever found an actual duplicate)

  Summary

  So much for 100% match. The publisher claims that the software finds duplicates "by comparing the file data itself ensuring 100% accuracy." I can't say whether they are actually comparing the file data, but I can say that whatever they are doing was closer to 0% accurate for me... In my job, I am constantly recieving large amounts of data from many customers. I try to keep things organized, but I'm not always sucessfull, and sometimes customers just add new files to the ones they sent me previously. I need a utility that can scan a set of drives and/or folders and accurately identify 100% duplicates. Based on the claims made by the publisher, I was really excited to try CloneMaster v5.00. My first test was on a set of folders where I was curious about whether I had duplicates. At first things looked very promising as the process was moving along rather quickly, but as it started to identify duplicates I became less ethusiastic. I waited until it finished and then reviewed the results. I spent about 10 minutes looking through each of the supposed duplicates, but none of them were actual duplicates. I even opened some of the text files that it reported as duplicates, and I could see numerous differences with my naked eye. I was disheartened and gave up on the remaineder of the results before I even found a true duplicate. Thinking this was this just a fluke (or that I had been hungry during the previous test), I ran it again on another day . This time I used a set of folders that I know contains are large number of duplicates. Again it performed the comparison remarkably fast (especially since it was over 45GB of files). Unfortunatly this test ended in the same manner as the previous: I searched through the results, finding only "false posative", in the end I gave up on the remainder of the results before I actually found any true duplicates. I will admint that I had a colleage tell me that he used a previous version of the utility and didn't have nearly the number of false posatives that I did. Maybe there is something unique about the files I am scanning, maybe I was using the utility incorrectly, or maybe there is an issue with version 5.00. Either way this utility did not work for me.

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• ridgetopFebruary 19, 2008

  Pros

  very good

  Cons

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• Worked ok

  JazyhueJanuary 16, 2008

  Pros

  scaned a non system backup drive where I drop downloads and other stuff. Found everything ok but had to scan more than once to find them all.

  Cons

  True you can't delete batch files unless you buy. But right clicking allows explorer drop down which you can delete from.

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• DO NOT USE

  BoxissssMay 17, 2007

  Pros

  NOT FOR ANYONE WHO IS NOT AN ADVANCE USER

  Cons

  THIS APPLICATION MIS IDENTIFIED DUPLICATES WHICH CAN HARM YOUR SYSTEM

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• AWESOME!

  trekalienMay 7, 2007

  Pros

  THIS NEW VERION ROCK.

  Cons

  Summary

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• Worthless

  KaIIenFebruary 17, 2007

  Pros

  Scans fast enough, with simple interface that allows scanning files on another PC over a home network.

  Cons

  As it's scanning, it shows it's progress, including a running tally of how many duplicate files found. Once scanning is done, however, it reports that none were found. And I know for a fact there were several duplicates. I wanted to weed them out, but this ain't the program to do it.

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• Failed to find intentionally duplicated file!

  flausa1November 29, 2006

  Pros

  Doesn't require MS .net. Works (?) on Win98.

  Cons

  It did not work for me. I intentionally created a duplicate file and it reported no duplicates found. <p>^M <p>I have apx 10k digital photos. About a third are dupes because the camera starts to renumber on battery change, and I don't delete from memory stick every time I copy to PC. So, lots of dupes in lots of directories. I knew it had to be wrong when it first said no duplicates found. Tried it on both the Laptop (Win98) and Desktop (XP Home.) Because I renamed some photo extensions to *.jpeg, it was set to compare all files regardless of extension.

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• Amazing software!

  trekalienJuly 21, 2006

  Pros

  Simple & fast. This little jewel is a big time and space saver. We use it across our network!

  Cons

  n/a

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• Too few features, too expensive

  UttUttUttJune 6, 2006

  Pros

  Cons

  And often crashes.

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