-=PCTechTalk=- Re: cleanup
- From: ~OoO~ <sirtroth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:45:40 -0500
Duplicate File Finder
http://tinyurl.com/7xv76
I've used this for a good 2 years. You're basically gonna give it a main
directory to search and it'll seek out the dups. If you look in that screen
shot on that link above, you'll quickly see how it visually groups all the
dups together. For example, in the screen shot shown, the first set of dupes
has 5 files that are duplicates. Out of those 5, you highlight whatever you
want to delete (the standard CTRL-click to highlight more than one, or click
the first and SHIFT-click the second to highlight everything in the
between). Then you hit the delete button and WHAM. Take note, though, that
this is not checking the file name at all. The file name can be the same or
different. It doesn't care. Its doing a CRC & checksum comparison. In other
words, its checking the contents. Besides the name, if the files are
identical, it'll be marked here.
Regarding what Beverly said about deleting the wrong thing and then having a
"huh?" look to your face... :o) .... you just need to be careful. You have
to know what kind of dupes you're looking to delete. For example, you might
search a folder with all images. You know that they're images, and you're
specifically looking for dupe images. Everything is fine there. But, if you
have it arbitrarily look for dupe files all over your system for no reason
other than reclaiming disk space, well you better have a slighter better
knowledge of what everything is. ESPECIALLY since your operating system
along sports a hefty number of dupe files in various directories.
So, again... you sort of have to have a goal in mind... other than just
reclaiming space.
---Troth
-----Original Message-----
From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of milady
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 6:59 PM
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: cleanup
I have seen that warning on several duplicate removal programs..kinda of
scarry. Leaves me with the impression that if you don't know what files are
being removed and what they are for then you shouldn't mess with it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Beverly Hahn" <bhahn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 3:14 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: cleanup
I tried that once and wound up deleting something really important. I
couldn't even reboot from my start-up disk and had to take my computer
to the shop. When you have identical duplicate files, how do you know
which one you may safely remove?
Thanks,
Beverly
Don wrote:
>.....
>
>If you think you have a bunch of duplicate files download a duplicate file
>detector to search for and delete them.
>
>Don
>
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