Duplicate File Finder and Duplicate File Finder .net Software for Windows

Space Hound 4
$45 - Duplicate Files by Fineware Systems

Sniff out wasted space with The Best Duplicate File Finder available. Space Hound 4 eliminates duplicate and unused files that are cluttering up your hard drive and causing problems. Make your operations faster because your system doesn't have to look through thousands of unnecessary files to find the ones you need. Now, much more than a duplicate File finder... Space Hound 4 is an education about the files on your computer. Uncludes File & Directory Management, Zip & Unzip, file Viewers, Hex viewer, icon Viewer, more.

The overall mission of the program is to "sniff out" wasted space on your hard disk that is duplicated, obsolete, or simply forgotten.

Space Hound performs it's job by building specialized file lists which can be examined by the user.

Several primary displays guide you in identifying files which are duplicated, obsolete, and even help find files which may have been forgotten. Space Hound 4 provides the tools to assist you in determining which files fall into these categories.

In addition to helping you "sniff out" wasted and nonproductive disk space, the program provides excellent reporting and exporting capabilities to aid you in managing your data.

Space Hound comes equipped with an array of built-in viewers that support many popular types of documents, graphics, sound files, and archives. It also has a "junk" file removal feature that eliminates several types of files notorious for wasting space. Another strength of the program is its ability to generate lists of files based on your specific criteria -- including file masks, attributes, size, and date. You can even perform complex string searches, use a snapshot utility to compare drive/folder contents, compare files, verify shortcuts, print reports, and retrieve version information.

The program has recieved nominations for the SIAF Award for BEST UTILITY and the PC Magazine/Ziff-Davis Shareware Award for FILE UTILITY.

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Moleskinsoft Clone Remover
$32.9 - Moleskinsoft

Clone Remover - duplicate file finder - find duplicate mp3, find duplicate pictures
and more! Clone Remover will detect file duplicates on your hard drives.
Including zip and rar archives. This duplicate file finder will help to:
1) Find duplicate files - because it searches for exact file duplicates.
2) Find duplicate pictures - because it searches for similar images.
For example, files with images of different quality.
3) Find duplicate mp3 - because it searches for duplicate mp3 files by mp3 tags.
Clone Remover will also find duplicate files of a zero size and files with the same
names and extensions.
After a short search process, you can select the duplicates you do not need manually
or use a special tool for quick file selection. You can remove the selected files, move
them to the Recycle Bin, move or copy them to a certain folder.

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Space Hound 32
$40 - Fineware Systems

Sniff out wasted space with The Best Duplicate File Finder available. Space Hound 32 eliminates duplicate and unused files that are cluttering up your hard drive and causing problems. Make your operations faster because your system doesn't have to look through thousands of unnecessary files to find the ones you need. Now, much more than a duplicate File finder... Space Hound 32 is an education about the files on your computer. Uncludes File & Directory Management, Zip & Unzip, file Viewers, Hex viewer, icon Viewer, more.

The overall mission of the program is to "sniff out" wasted space on your hard disk that is duplicated, obsolete, or simply forgotten.

Space Hound performs it's job by building specialized file lists which can be examined by the user.

Several primary displays guide you in identifying files which are duplicated, obsolete, and even help find files which may have been forgotten. Space Hound 32 provides the tools to assist you in determining which files fall into these categories.

In addition to helping you "sniff out" wasted and nonproductive disk space, the program provides excellent reporting and exporting capabilities to aid you in managing your data.

Space Hound comes equipped with an array of built-in viewers that support many popular types of documents, graphics, sound files, and archives. It also has a "junk" file removal feature that eliminates several types of files notorious for wasting space. Another strength of the program is its ability to generate lists of files based on your specific criteria -- including file masks, attributes, size, and date. You can even perform complex string searches, use a snapshot utility to compare drive/folder contents, compare files, verify shortcuts, print reports, and retrieve version information.

Nominated for 1999 SIAF Award for BEST UTILITY. Nominated for 1999 PC-Magazine/Ziff-Davis Shareware Award for FILE UTILITY. Nominated for 1998 SIAF Award for BEST UTILITY (Prior version).

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Delete Duplicate File
$26 - Duplicate-Finder

You may not realize how many duplicate files you have on your computer, after numerous downloads from the Internet, or scattered over your home or corporate network. Duplicate files are in most cases redundant and unnecessary, so keeping them is merely a waste of hard disk space. Your hard drives may be full of extra copies of documents, MP3s, photos and videos waiting to be removed. Duplicate File Finder will help you reclaim your valuable disk space and improve data efficiency.

Features
+ Two powerful search engines (byte by byte and CRC32).
+ Find files with same contents, same name and zero size.
+ Find duplicate pictures(jpg, gif), video(avi, mpg), songs(mp3).
+ Fastest among duplicate file finders.
+ Very user friendly, Specially design for novice users.
+ Works with removable media devices like Floppy, USB, etc.
+ Search local PC and over network.
+ Find duplicate files based on criteria : filename, byte to byte, contents, etc.
+ Fuzzy Match for files with little differences.
+ Can find duplicates from a selected set of folders (i.e., not from whole drive).
+ Allows important folders you wish to be excluded from scanning altogether.
+ Can use wild cards.
+ Protects the windows and system folders.
+ Skips the hidden files and folder.
+ Show file versions and properties.
+ Resizable popup picture viewer.
+ Save search session and results for future searches.
+ Results can be exported in two formats HTML and CSV.

Benefits
+ Regain wasted disk space by cleaning up hard disks
+ No need to spend too much time, do it ultra fast.
+ Runs much more quickly than others in its class, very safe and more reliable.
+ Identify and recover wasted disk space.
+ Reduce backup time and media used for backups.
+ Reduce file searching time.
+ Remove duplicate files to eliminate synchronization problems.

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DupeWatcher
$14.95 - Resonantsoft

DupeWatcher is profile based powerful and handy duplicate file finder for Windows. It can detect identical files irrespective of file names using CRC32 or MD5 content match algorithms. This will help users to detect duplicate music or graphic files etc very easily.

DupeWatcher can also detect duplicate files based on the file name, file size, file created or modified datetime. It comes with a pre-configured default profile with most common settings. It has option to exclude System, Read-only, Hidden files and zero byte files from duplicate search. A powerful filter option helps the user to include or exclude specific file groups or file types or file extensions from the identical file search. It also has an option to restrict duplicate file search to selected folder or to include sub folders.

The user can execute a profile to find duplicate files in the system based on the selection criteria. On executing, the duplicate files detected and the results are displayed in a grid. The result is grouped based on the user selections to help the user to easily identify the duplicate files. By default, all the files in a group except the first one is marked as duplicate files. Users can override this at any time before taking any further action.

Further action can be taken on the duplicate files with a single mouse click. It can be a single file, a single group of duplicate files or all the duplicate files. They can moved to Recycle bin, Deleted Permanently, Zipped, Moved to a specified location. User has an option to create a single copy of all the duplicate files. Users can even Export duplicate files report in a format of their choice. There is an option to delete empty folders while deleting the duplicate files.

DupeWatcher logs every activity and generates a detailed report. Summary header gives the status at a glance while the detailed section lists every action that has taken on the duplicate files.

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Duplicate Checker
$19 - GF Software

Duplicate file finder and remover.
Imagine that you are trying to find a certain file on your computer and you have five files with the same name and same size! Confusing, isn't it? What file do you really need? To avoid such problems and organize files you should remove unnecessary files. This saves hard disk space also.
Duplicate Checker is a powerful tool for finding duplicate images, MP3s and any other file types. Main features: 1) search files with the same name, same size, same content (comparison of files uses CRC32 checksums); 2) image preview and thumbnails bars for pictures search; 3) many operations on list of found files - delete, move or copy.
Duplicate Checker has many advantages compared with other such programs including its high-speed search process using an engine based on the STL technology, and a suitable interface which clearly separates file groups.

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