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deleting duplicate files

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by jaycee, 2006/09/16.

  1. 2006/09/16
    jaycee

    jaycee Inactive Thread Starter

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    Anyone know of a utility that will find and possibly compare duplicate files on all drives, to backup or delete

    My old Cleansweep prog used to do the job quite well

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    Steve R Jones

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    I never have or will run this type of application. One little boo boo on the part of the app could render your pc useless. Useless might be a little strong, other words like unbootable - error ridden also come to mind...

    Also, generally speaking, dupe dll files are usualy small and do no harm to the pc.
     
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    PeteC

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    Bearing in mind what Steve posted - if you are only interested in duplicate data files take a look at the Duplicate File Finder in jv16PowerTools

    I used CleanSweep once to search for duplicate files and was not happy with it's findings and dumped it. Your call :)
     
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    Bill Castner

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    I honestly believe that full consideration of the XP native feature "Windows File Protection" would avoid an unbootable PC.

    Show me how a duplicate DLL finder can lead to a non-boot situation under XP. The only DLL used at boot is HAL.DLL and it is a protected file.

    Further, the utilities I have looked at for clients compare files at the byte, MD5 and CRC levels, not just filename. This allows them to identify duplicates under different names. In addition, they offer file filters to control searches by drive, folder path, file extensions, age, owner, version metadata, etc.

    For people managing large numbers of image files, or audio collections, the safe use of a duplicate file finder is more than possible.

    See, for example, NoClone, a byte comparison based duplicate finder: http://noclone.net/
     
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    jaycee

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    Thanks for the NoClone Link, I will try it.

    Cleansweep did what I wanted it to do. I still have the disk but can't remember what OS I was using at the time. Possibly W95

    Will have a look at Power Toys also.

    Regards jaycee
     
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    Bill Castner

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    Cleansweep should not be used. This QuarterDesk software (QuarterDesk is now owned by Symantec) is obsolete and not written for XP, nor contain a "Whitelist" of ignore items for the XP context.
     
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