The Easy Duplicate Finder looks a little complicated, but that is down to the interface, rather than a complex program. You chose the folder that you want analyzed and press start. Easy Duplicate Finder scans the files and finds any duplicates, presenting you with a list of suspicious items in the bottom half of the screen. Once it has finished, there are a number of options you can chose - renaming the duplicates, moving them to a specific folder, or just deleting them, the hardest option to undo.

Easy Duplicate Finder doesn't offer many configuration options, but it does allow some filters to be applied to the searches. You can specify certain file types (MP3, JPG, etc.), ignore zero-size files or specify minimum/maximum file sizes. There are also two file comparison modes - byte-by-byte or CRC32 Checksum.

Easy Duplicate Finder is probably not the most user-friendly duplicate finder out there, but it's not too complicated and does provide rapid, accurate results.

Easy Duplicate Finder finds duplicates based on content, not name, making it very accurate.

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What marks Duplicate Cleaner out for greatness is that apart from being free and attractively designed, it's supremely easy to use while retaining considerable file management power. The main interface is divided into 2 - Search Criteria and Duplicate Files. Specify what you want the app to look for in the first, and deal with the results in the second.

Filtering options are often what make duplicate cleaning a little complicated, but you won't have that problem with Duplicate Cleaner. The options are self-explanatory and clearly displayed, and in the top menu bar you'll find a Selection Assistant that lets you get even more specific. The Duplicate Cleaner scan is fast and presents you with a concise summary of what it has found.

One you can see what's duplicated, you'll find it really easy to deal with them. Right click on individual entries to get more information or perform batch actions, or go through them manually if there aren't many. And don't make the mistake of thinking that you can only erase duplicates - use the File Removal tool and you'll be able to move, rename or hardlink the files too.

One of Duplicate Cleaner's earlier problems was that it had an annoying nag screen and it didn't look too snazzy. These days, however, we can definitely say that Duplicate Cleaner has remedied both these issues and is now one of the best duplicate removers out there - if you have problems with doubled-up files, download it asap!

Duplicate files? Download Duplicate Cleaner and you can safely bid them goodbye!

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Luckily you can now put an end to this chaos with Fast Duplicate File Finder, a handy tool that scans selected directories and finds any duplicate files inside them. The program works with all sorts of files and can also be configured to scan sub-folders within a given directory, though you won't be able to create filters for file types.

Once Fast Duplicate File Finder has finished scanning, you'll get a list with all found duplicate files right on its interface. You can easily check copies one by one thanks to the program's built-in viewer, which lets you preview images, plain text documents and audio files, among others.

Fast Duplicate File Finder also includes a nice "Auto Check" tool that enables you to automatically select the copy of each duplicate file. The tool, however, is a bit confusing to use, as it apparently only works if you select the files with the older dates.

If you're wasting hard drive space with duplicate files, it's about time you get it back with Fast Duplicate File Finder.

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The digital music revolution is all well and good, but listening to music on your computer isn't without its problems. One of the most annoying things about storing large amounts of music on your PC is that it's very easy to pick up MP3 duplicates, making a real mess of your music library. Duplicate Music Files Finder is an easy duplicate finder that can help.

Not only can Duplicate Music Files Finder find duplicate tracks but the program also looks for redundant files of other types, helping you to cut the garbage from your machine. You can also search for bad file names or misspelt tags, correcting them in seconds. Overall, Duplicate Music Files Finder is a great way of quickly getting shot of doubled-up music.

Duplicate Music Files Finder does pretty much what you'd expect - it finds duplicate tracks in your music collection - but it does the job really well.

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You can play them from the program itself (just to make sure they're the same) and then delete one of the copies.

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Easy Duplicate Finder Portable looks a little complicated, but that is down to the interface, rather than a complex program. You chose the folder you want analyzed and press start. Easy Duplicate Finder Portable scans the files and finds any duplicates, presenting you with a list of the suspicious items in the bottom half of the screen. Once it has finished, there are a number of options you can chose - renaming the duplicates, moving them to a specific folder, or just deleting them, the hardest option to undo.

Easy Duplicate Finder Portable doesn't offer a huge number of configuration options, but it does allow some filters to be applied to the searches. You can specify certain file types (MP3, JPG, etc.), ignore zero-size files or specify minimum/maximum file sizes. There are also two file comparison modes - byte-by-byte or CRC32 Checksum. Easy Duplicate Finder Portable is probably not the most user-friendly duplicate finder out there, but it's not too complicated and does provide rapid, accurate results.

Easy Duplicate Finder Portable finds duplicates based on content, not name, making it very accurate.

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Using Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder is very easy. All you need to do is select the folder you want to scan and press the Start Search button. The duplicate images will be listed at the bottom of the interface. You can then go over them one by one, and use the preview function to decide which one to keep, and which one to erase. A third option is moving the selected picture to a different folder.

Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder is really fast when scanning folders, but unfortunately it’s not that reliable when the similarity percentage falls below 50%. Another feature we missed in Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder was the possibility of selecting multiple files at the same time to erase or move them, which would make bulk file handling a lot easier.

If you think you may have multiple duplicate images on your hard drive, use Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder and get rid of all of them!

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NoClone Free has been especially designed to find any duplicate files on your hard drive, with a quite high percentage of success. You can choose between scanning the whole disk or just one certain folder, and of course, select the template used by the program to decide which files are duplicate and which not.

I think these templates are the main strength of NoClone Free: there are quite a few to choose from, including duplicate email messages and duplicate MP3 files. Also, you can create your own template by deciding the elements and features NoClone Free should compare in each file to decide whether they're duplicates or not, which is very useful is none of the templates included suits your needs.

Once NoClone Free finishes scanning the system, it displays a list with all the duplicate files found and enables you to delete them straight away, saving precious hard drive space. There's even a contest on the developer's website to see who saves the most space thanks to NoClone Free. The program also exports the list to several formats (XML, CSV or XLS; no HTML or TXT, surprisingly).

NoClone Free is a quick and easy way to find duplicate files on your hard drive, delete them and bring all those megabytes back.

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Image Comparer helps you out of this predicament by analyzing your digital images and automatically selects the best shot out of many duplicates, allowing you to move or delete them in a couple of mouse clicks. Image Comparer is slightly different from similar programs in that it does not just look for exact duplicates. Instead, it analyzes and recognizes an image's content, and groups pictures that look alike. You can specify the level of similarity that is sufficient to consider pictures to be duplicates. View them in pairs or see the top ten similar images and keep the best one!

This is an extremely useful program for professional or amateur photographers that take duplicate photos with very similar settings. However, for the average user, it's fairly unnecessary because it's designed for those that have hundreds, not just a few, duplicate images.

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Duplicate Finder has four different search modes that will give you varying levels of power. Same Name Files and Zero Size File will give you a superficial search that's good for getting rid of major clutter, while Byte to Byte and CRC32 are more complex methods that find files identical in content but not in name. Once found, Duplicate Finder displays the results in an easy-to-read table that shows you exactly where the duplicates are located.

When it comes to dealing with the duplicates, Duplicate Finder has a few options on offer. You can erase, move elsewhere or rename, and the program will warn you if you are about to take a step you can't undo. Unfortunately, it's in this last area that Duplicate Finder is severely compromised: the trial version only allows you to delete files that are under 2MB in size. In case you didn't know, there's very little on your computer that's under 2MB, which means that as far as the trial version goes, your cluttered computer is likely to stay that way unless you manually find and remove the files.

Duplicate Finder - a standard dupe finder with harsh trial limitations.

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With Auslogics Duplicate File Finder you can easily scan the selected folders or drives and shows a list with all the duplicate files it finds, leaving to you the decision about which one to delete, and which one to keep.

Auslogics Duplicate File Finder features a clear, simple interface that takes you step by step through the analysis and deletion process. It's also surprisingly quick at scanning the hard drive.

On the downside, the criteria used in Auslogics Duplicate File Finder to select which files should be considered as duplicates are not very flexible – as an example, you can't filter file by extension, only by certain prefixed types – and once you get the list, you need third-party apps to preview the files.

Auslogics Duplicate File Finder cleans your hard drive of duplicate files and recovers precious disk space in just three easy steps..

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You almost surely have doubled music files which occupy useless space on your HDD. This happens when, for example, you borrow a music CD from a friend and you copy it all without realizing you might already have some of the songs included in your friend’s CD.

Before you can start scanning your system with CloneSpy though, add a folder in the ‘pool1’ section. When you browse the CloneSpy directory you want to analyze, bear in mind you need to press the ‘add selected folder’ or the ‘add all sibling folders’ button, otherwise the process will not work, and you will be left with a feeling of not knowing what happened. If you don’t change CloneSpy settings, the program will ask you every time before deleting a file, always showing you the two supposedly duplicate files.

Although CloneSpy’s GUI is surely not so user friendly, the program is so useful that we can close an eye on that. CloneSpy helps you find all duplicate files on your computer to free space on your hard disk and make your PC work better.

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It can scan either file names or contents so it can search deep inside documents. dupeGuru not only finds file names that are the same, but it also finds similar file names. dupeGuru offers a safe and rapid way to update huge numbers of files at the same time without any extra effort on your part. dupeGuru not only allows you to delete duplicate files but also move or copy them elsewhere.

However, if some duplicates are not as clear as others, dupeGuru uses a special algorithm which can mark out which files genuinely are separate and which ones are just similar thanks to the Power Marker. dupeGuru saves you time and does its job extremely quickly. However, it can still be confusing which files are duplicates and which are not. Sometimes dupeGuru selects files which it thinks are duplicates but in reality are not so be careful what you allow it to delete. It also has a habit of missing some duplicate files from time to time. It ignores files under 30MB by default although you can deactivate this.

Most recently, dupeGuru has been totally revamped to make a much slicker app. However, the preferences still aren't easy enough to access if you're making lots of scans and need to customize the way dupeGuru searches for each one.

dupeGuru is a super quick way to weed out those files which you don't need any more or which are taking up valuable space on your hard drive.

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The results are displayed in a list on the program’s interface, from where you can automatically check one of each pair of duplicates and delete them.

By removing them, you’ll have a cleaner and more organized hard drive.

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dupeGuru Picture Edition is actually a spin-off from the excellent dupeGuru, a program designed for doing the same thing for music files so from the start, you know you're in fairly good hands when it comes to duplication apps. The other good thing is, it's also open source too so those with programming knowledge can modify it to their needs.

dupeGuru Picture Edition can detect image duplicates in most of the major formats, including PNG, JPG and GIF. It integrates with your Photos folder so you don't need to go browsing around for images to scan. In fact, it can automatically scan your entire library instantly. Of course, you may not want dupeGuru Picture Edition to detect certain images or file types and the preferences give you the chance to tweak it to your liking via the scanning engine settings.

As regards what to do with your duplicates, dupeGuru Picture Edition can either delete images instantly or move them to another folder. The program features a 'Power Marker' for adding extra annotations to duplicate files. The program isn't perfect, however. One of the problems is that it doesn't always detect duplicates, especially those that are not in any of the major formats. In addition, scanning still takes a long time especially if you've got a big library of pictures.

Most recently, dupeGuru Picture edition has gone through a major revamp of the interface making it much slicker. However, the developer should have concentrated on improving the speed of scanning as many users will find it annoyingly slow.

Overall however, dupeGuru PE is an easy to use and highly customizable tool that will eventually help clear your hard drive of unwanted duplicate images.

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