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Author Topic: duplicate file removing software  (Read 3906 times)

cardrb

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duplicate file removing software
« on: December 12, 2010, 08:16:58 PM »
does anyone know o***ood piece of software to scan my DNS-323 and remove duplicate files, I'd like to find a software that uses hash values of files rather than names, extensions, size etc.

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jamieburchell

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Re: duplicate file removing software
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2010, 06:39:33 AM »
Is this for iTunes content? If so there's some sort of "remove duplicates" feature within iTunes.
If not, I came accross this when doing a quick google search:

http://www.digitalvolcano.co.uk/content/duplicate-cleaner

It's freeware, but I haven't tried it.

I'm not sure how relevent this may be, or how likely it would be to cause you a problem but it has been documented that MD5 hashes are not always unique.
« Last Edit: December 13, 2010, 06:41:56 AM by jamieburchell »
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Biscotte

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Re: duplicate file removing software
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2010, 03:21:15 PM »
I tried NoClone when it was in version 3
It is / was good but very s.l.o.w, but did good job of finding duplicates. 
I tried the updated more recent versions of NoClone that claim they can find duplicate music files.  But it cannot.
At least I dont see how a 6.3 meg mp3 file can be the same as a 2.0 meg mp3 file. The tagger does not make that much difference!!

Recently tried duplicate cleaner 1.4.7 by digitalvolcano.
Seems OK

Like all these programmes, be really careful before deleting.  There are always disclaimers - ''you dunit, not me guvnor'' . . . I check the actual subdirectories. 


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