Re: Looking for a Duplicate file program

de al jones 05/04/2006 02:24

On Wed, 03 May 2006 11:45:10 -0400, Al Klein wrote:

> On Wed, 03 May 2006 13:58:57 GMT, al jones <alfredmjones@shotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>HOWEVER since this is freeeware I'm looking for, what I'd like is a program
>>which will automatically delete duplicates of files which are bit-for-bit
>>duplicates with different name. Obviously want to retain one of them - and
>>I'm not picky which one, but would like to get rid of the others. Any
>>suggestions??
>
> I hope you have a lot of time. Even on a fast 64 bit computer this
> will take a LONG time - every single file on the drive (assuming you
> don't want it to check multiple drives) has to be compared to every
> other file for size, for openers. Then all files with a given size
> have to be bit-compared against all others with that size. That's a
> very slow process. If you're not young you might not live long enough
> to see it complete.

Al Little:
Actually, it doesn't take all that much time. I've run spaceman on my
entire system looking for some misplaced files and it'll run well overnight
- and be done in the morning. (3 drives totaling 450GB with app 50% used).
That to the side, however, I didn't intend to give the impression that I
was doing the entire system, just a few large but select directories.

I wrote / am writing FontOrg and in the process have managed to duplicate
an unnecessarily large number of files - I've cleaned up several 10's of
thousands by hand (I'm talking about over 175000 font files .....).

I'm letting JJS's dupekiller take a look at them now - I'll report back
after it's done.

Thanks for the reply .... the other //al