Duplicate file finder recommendation?

I've already looked on line and tried three of the recommended duplicate
file utilities without success:

1. Duplicate Cleaner found a large number of duplicates but stopped
responding when I tried to delete files.

2. Easy Duplicate Finder found a large number of duplicates but then
appeared to do nothing. When I tried to End Task, it reported that the
program was waiting for input from me, but there was no sign of a prompt.

3. Auslogics Duplicate File Finder found a large number of duplicates,
but when I tried to delete all but one of each set it deleted only three
files, total.

Can anybody recommend something that they have found to work?

Perce

"Percival P. Cassidy" wrote in message news:j4j00i$5t4$...

I've already looked on line and tried three of the recommended duplicate
file utilities without success:

1. Duplicate Cleaner found a large number of duplicates but stopped
responding when I tried to delete files.

2. Easy Duplicate Finder found a large number of duplicates but then
appeared to do nothing. When I tried to End Task, it reported that the
program was waiting for input from me, but there was no sign of a prompt.

3. Auslogics Duplicate File Finder found a large number of duplicates,
but when I tried to delete all but one of each set it deleted only three
files, total.

Can anybody recommend something that they have found to work?

Perce

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Duplicate Cleaner works for me with no problems. Finds everything and
deletes all as instructed.

One thing I did find with it though, it does tend to go dormant for a while
if you try to delete a lot of files to the Recycle Bin. For a while could be
up to an hour!!! Disable this feature, so long as you are happy with not
having the ability to recover them, and all should be OK.

jim

On 11/09/2011 6:09 PM, jbm wrote:
> Duplicate Cleaner works for me with no problems. Finds everything and
> deletes all as instructed.
>
> One thing I did find with it though, it does tend to go dormant for a
> while if you try to delete a lot of files to the Recycle Bin. For a
> while could be up to an hour!!! Disable this feature, so long as you are
> happy with not having the ability to recover them, and all should be OK.

Hey, this Duplicate Cleaner rocks! I've been using an out-of-date app
called Duplicate Detector all of these years, it hasn't been updated
since the XP days, and it requires special XP compatibility modes to
work in Win 7, but it is the only thing that had all of the features I
was looking for. Now this Dupe Cleaner does even better than this.

Yousuf Khan

On 09/11/11 06:09 pm, jbm wrote:
> "Percival P. Cassidy" wrote in message news:j4j00i$5t4$...
>
> I've already looked on line and tried three of the recommended duplicate
> file utilities without success:
>
> 1. Duplicate Cleaner found a large number of duplicates but stopped
> responding when I tried to delete files.
>
> 2. Easy Duplicate Finder found a large number of duplicates but then
> appeared to do nothing. When I tried to End Task, it reported that the
> program was waiting for input from me, but there was no sign of a prompt.
>
> 3. Auslogics Duplicate File Finder found a large number of duplicates,
> but when I tried to delete all but one of each set it deleted only three
> files, total.
>
> Can anybody recommend something that they have found to work?
>
> Perce
>
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>
>
> Duplicate Cleaner works for me with no problems. Finds everything and
> deletes all as instructed.
>
> One thing I did find with it though, it does tend to go dormant for a
> while if you try to delete a lot of files to the Recycle Bin. For a
> while could be up to an hour!!! Disable this feature, so long as you are
> happy with not having the ability to recover them, and all should be OK.

Duplicate Cleaner doesn't merely *seem to* quit; three times now I have
got the official "Duplicate Cleaner has stopped responding" message; if
I click Debug rather than Close, it quits anyway.

Perce

In news:j4j00i$5t4$,
Percival P. Cassidy <> typed:
> I've already looked on line and tried three of the
> recommended duplicate file utilities without success:
>
> 1. Duplicate Cleaner found a large number of duplicates
> but stopped responding when I tried to delete files.
>
> 2. Easy Duplicate Finder found a large number of
> duplicates but then appeared to do nothing. When I tried
> to End Task, it reported that the program was waiting for
> input from me, but there was no sign of a prompt.
> 3. Auslogics Duplicate File Finder found a large number
> of duplicates, but when I tried to delete all but one of
> each set it deleted only three files, total.
>
> Can anybody recommend something that they have found to
> work?
> Perce

I use one from here that works very well:
http://dff.nazrashid.com/

"Percival P. Cassidy" wrote in message news:j4jp3j$umf$...

Duplicate Cleaner doesn't merely *seem to* quit; three times now I have
got the official "Duplicate Cleaner has stopped responding" message; if
I click Debug rather than Close, it quits anyway.

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"Blah-Blah has stopped responding" is nothing to do with "Blah-Blah". It's a
crap operating system called Window 7 64-bit. It regularly comes up with
this message for any 32-bit installed programs.

jim

"Percival P. Cassidy" wrote in message news:j4jp3j$umf$...

Duplicate Cleaner doesn't merely *seem to* quit; three times now I have
got the official "Duplicate Cleaner has stopped responding" message; if
I click Debug rather than Close, it quits anyway.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Blah-Blah has stopped responding" is nothing to do with "Blah-Blah". It's a
crap operating system called Window 7 64-bit. It regularly comes up with
this message for any 32-bit installed programs.

jim

On 09/12/11 06:02 pm, jbm wrote:

> Duplicate Cleaner doesn't merely *seem to* quit; three times now I have
> got the official "Duplicate Cleaner has stopped responding" message; if
> I click Debug rather than Close, it quits anyway.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "Blah-Blah has stopped responding" is nothing to do with "Blah-Blah".
> It's a crap operating system called Window 7 64-bit. It regularly comes
> up with this message for any 32-bit installed programs.

I'm using 32-bit Win7Pro.

Perce

On 11/09/2011 9:21 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
> On 11/09/2011 6:09 PM, jbm wrote:
>> Duplicate Cleaner works for me with no problems. Finds everything and
>> deletes all as instructed.
>>
>> One thing I did find with it though, it does tend to go dormant for a
>> while if you try to delete a lot of files to the Recycle Bin. For a
>> while could be up to an hour!!! Disable this feature, so long as you are
>> happy with not having the ability to recover them, and all should be OK.
>
> Hey, this Duplicate Cleaner rocks! I've been using an out-of-date app
> called Duplicate Detector all of these years, it hasn't been updated
> since the XP days, and it requires special XP compatibility modes to
> work in Win 7, but it is the only thing that had all of the features I
> was looking for. Now this Dupe Cleaner does even better than this.

The more I use this Duplicate Cleaner, the more I like it! It's
definitely going to replace my old XP-era dupe-finder program, Duplic8.

One of the things that's really amazing about this program is that it
has more options than just simply deleting the duplicate files. You can
also rename the dupe files (to something like "duplicate_*"). Or even
more impressively, you can replace the dupes with symbolic links.
Symbolic links are like the Windows shortcuts on steroids; unlike
shortcuts, applications can't tell the difference between symbolic links
and the original file, however files that are symbolic links all just
point to one main file, so they don't take up any additional space on
the disk. Only problem with it is that it only works with NTFS, not with
FAT32.

Yousuf Khan

Yousuf Khan wrote:
> On 11/09/2011 9:21 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
>> On 11/09/2011 6:09 PM, jbm wrote:
>>> Duplicate Cleaner works for me with no problems. Finds everything and
>>> deletes all as instructed.
>>>
>>> One thing I did find with it though, it does tend to go dormant for a
>>> while if you try to delete a lot of files to the Recycle Bin. For a
>>> while could be up to an hour!!! Disable this feature, so long as you are
>>> happy with not having the ability to recover them, and all should be OK.
>>
>> Hey, this Duplicate Cleaner rocks! I've been using an out-of-date app
>> called Duplicate Detector all of these years, it hasn't been updated
>> since the XP days, and it requires special XP compatibility modes to
>> work in Win 7, but it is the only thing that had all of the features I
>> was looking for. Now this Dupe Cleaner does even better than this.
>
> The more I use this Duplicate Cleaner, the more I like it! It's
> definitely going to replace my old XP-era dupe-finder program, Duplic8.
>
> One of the things that's really amazing about this program is that it
> has more options than just simply deleting the duplicate files. You can
> also rename the dupe files (to something like "duplicate_*"). Or even
> more impressively, you can replace the dupes with symbolic links.
> Symbolic links are like the Windows shortcuts on steroids; unlike
> shortcuts, applications can't tell the difference between symbolic links
> and the original file, however files that are symbolic links all just
> point to one main file, so they don't take up any additional space on
> the disk. Only problem with it is that it only works with NTFS, not with
> FAT32.
>
> Yousuf Khan

It's possible that is a hard link. The OS files in Windows 7 are hard linked
to files in the store, in an effort to save data storage space. Some of the
files have four pointers to the same data. The existence of hard links,
makes it harder to figure out how much storage space your OS is using (like
doing properties on individual folders and adding the numbers together).
To study hard links first seen in Windows 7, I used my trusty Linux LiveCD,
as the files have reference counts that are easier to see.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_link

The other kinds of options are mentioned in here. Too many options...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link

If I was de-duping, and had the options of...

1) Delete the spare copy.
2) Use hard link.
3) Use symbolic link.
4) Use shortcut.

I'd choose (1) purely for the simplicity. As it stands now, I know
my document folders contain nothing but ordinary files, which means
I have reasonable assurance they can be moved or maintained without
thinking about it. I can move any folder in my document tree to
any other folder, without having to think about it. And I can also
use any copy utility I want, as copying ordinary files doesn't
require any intelligence on the part of the utility.

Paul