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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: Daianto on February 06, 2009, 01:41:23 pm

Title: Duplicate finder
Post by: Daianto on February 06, 2009, 01:41:23 pm

With the addition of a new drive I'm reorganizing my storage. I'm looking for a Windows program that can compare for duplicates on different drives. The one I have looked at so far aren't satisfactory. Any recommendations?

Cheers,
Dave

Title: Duplicate finder
Post by: John.Murray on February 06, 2009, 06:09:40 pm

Although slow (it runs under java), this is full featured.  As a plus it will compare files byte by byte as opposed to only file names.

http://duplicatefilessearcher.net/ (http://duplicatefilessearcher.net/)

Title: Duplicate finder
Post by: teo.karp on February 06, 2009, 06:25:22 pm

i had a similar problem. i used visipics,it has a nice interface and not only finds files with the same name/size but it can identify identical pics based on the content. it shows you suspected duplicates
http://www.visipics.info/index.php?title=Main_Page (http://www.visipics.info/index.php?title=Main_Page)  there's a download link on the left

Title: Duplicate finder
Post by: Gordon Buck on February 06, 2009, 08:54:21 pm

I use AcuteFinder, http://www.hugmot.is/english/ (http://www.hugmot.is/english/)

Title: Duplicate finder
Post by: Snook on March 17, 2009, 09:37:51 am

And Macintosh what are you guys using?

Snook

Title: Duplicate finder
Post by: jjj on March 21, 2009, 05:08:37 pm

On the PC I use Directory Opus as a replacement for Windows Explorer and one of the very long list of features is a compare folders (http://nudel.dopus.com/opus9/page5.html#finddupefinder) facility.
It's well worth buying for the amount of time it saves, ever though it's 'expensive' compared to other Explorer or Finder replacements. Something that took two clicks and 5 minutes took many, many hours to do in Finder, so DOpus saves a fortune in billable time.
I find using a Mac, painfully slow at times due to not having a Mac version of DOpus. Pathfinder is sadly nowhere near as good.

Title: Duplicate finder
Post by: jjj on March 21, 2009, 05:13:45 pm

Quote from: Snook

And Macintosh what are you guys using?

There's
Araxis (http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/araxisfindduplicatefiles.html)
Tidy Up (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17908)
Singular (http://macamour.com/blog/2007/06/15/easily-find-duplicate-files-on-your-mac/)

Never had cause to use one yet, so cannot comment on how good they are.