{"id":360,"date":"2008-06-20T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=360"},"modified":"2009-01-14T21:40:17","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T01:40:17","slug":"review-easy-duplicate-finder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"Review: Easy Duplicate Finder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.duntemann.com\/easydupefinder500wide.jpg\" ><\/p>\n<p>I&apos;ve used a number of utilities to search for duplicate files under               Windows in the past few years, but in doing research for <i>Degunking               Essentials<\/i> I&apos;ve run across the king of the category: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easyduplicatefinder.com\/\">Easy               Duplicate Finder<\/a>. I like it for these reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&apos;s a &#8220;portable&#8221; or &#8220;no-install&#8221; app, meaning                 a single .exe file that can run from anywhere. It does not shotgun                 itself into fifteen different places on your hard drive, including                 the Windows Registry. You &#8220;uninstall&#8221; it by&#8230;deleting                 the file. Damn, what a brilliant notion! Why haven&apos;t more programmers                 thought of that?<\/li>\n<li>In a sense, the UI contains its own documentation. You proceed                 through the single screen from top to bottom, filling things out                 in an order that makes sense. It actually says &#8220;Step 1:&#8221;,                 &#8220;Step 2:&#8221;, and &#8220;Step 3:&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>It is astonishingly fast, at least in the mode that checks for                 duplicates using file size and a CRC32 checksum. When I captured                 the screenshot above (full size image <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duntemann.com\/easydupefinder.jpg\">here<\/a>)                 it had just scanned 6,300 files in&#8230;seven seconds. (I suspect                 that the alternate algorithm, which performs a byte-by-byte test,                 would take a <i>little<\/i> longer.)<\/li>\n<li>It&apos;s free. Really and truly free, without ads or spyware or                 any other gotchas of any species.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the two hours of testing I put it through, I managed to find               two old copies of my mailbase that I had forgotten I had, plus almost               two hundred duplicate digital photos. I realized that I had an extra               copy of the Hardy Heron .iso (700+ MB right there) a dozen or so               duplicate MP3s, plus a substantial number of other things scattered               allthehell over the place, which taken together lightened my hard               drive by a little over two GB.<\/p>\n<p>It reminded me of a lesson I learned a couple years ago, too: Empty               your digital camera when you move pictures over to your PC. Most               of the duplicate photos happened this way: I moved photos from the               camera to my folder hierarchy without deleting them from the camera,               then gave the numeric filenames more descriptive replacements. Alas,               the next time I synced the camera, the same files came over again               in their original numeric filenames, leaving me with identical file               pairs with names like 100_0519.JPG and QbitChewsTennisBall1.jpg.<\/p>\n<p>After the utility locates the dupes, you can select specific files               for deletion, renaming, or moving to a catchall folder. You can               limit the search to particular file types and file sizes, and define               masks for ambiguous filespecs, like QBit*.jpg. Overall, a spectacularly               useful utility that has no defects that I can see.<\/p>\n<p>Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&apos;ve used a number of utilities to search for duplicate files under Windows in the past few years, but in doing research for Degunking Essentials I&apos;ve run across the king of the category: Easy Duplicate Finder. 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