If you are an active PC user, and especially if you are a music lover, video and/or photo collections, chances are that you have accumulated an important amount of duplicate files on your hard disk.
The program offers a simple and intuitive user interface that behaves like a wizard, so that it can be easily used even by inexpert users. First of all, the program asks you to select the type of duplicate files to look for. You can select one or more of the following categories: images, audio files, video files, archives, and applications, or simply let the program look for all types of files. Then you can optionally set the minimum and maximum sizes of the files to be analyzed, to speed up the duplicates search process.
In the next step, you can tell the program whether to take into account the file names and the creation/modification dates when looking for duplicates. Finally, you can select the destiny of the duplicates found, which may be the Windows' recycle bin, the program's rescue center or a direct and permanent file deletion. There is also a special panel that allows you to select the drives and/or folders where you want the program to look for duplicates. Besides looking for duplicate files, the program can also detect and remove junk files, which also take up space from your disk unnecessarily.
To sum up, AusLogics Duplicate File Finder allows you to easily get rid of useless duplicate files that only take up space on your disks. Unfortunately, the program can only detect identical files but not similar ones, which is a helpful feature present on some comparable tools.
Pros
- Simple and intuitive interface that behaves like a wizard
- Allows you to filter your duplicate files searches by size range
- Allows you to select the destiny of the duplicate files found
- Capable of detecting and deleting junk files
Cons
- Not capable of detecting similar files
You can use DuplicateFilesDeleter, it is a fast way to find and delete all junk files.
This program made it easy to delete duplicate files from a recovered hard drive with only numbers as filenames. It scanned 300gb of data and found 30gb of duplicate pictures, videos, software and documents. All done in 10 minutes. It showed the path of each file, the file size and allowed me to select which ones I wanted to delete. Without this program, it would have taken hours to search through 300gb of data and comparing each file. Highly recommended!
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