Hi, all,
This is my first post. I've enjoyed test runs of Duplicate Cleaner on small file sets, but when I turned it loose this week to do what I really want it to do - look at my entire external hard drive, used for backup, and identify all the duplicates - it doesn't seem up to the task.
The first time I tried it, I used CRC-only criteria. The scan ran for more than two days, and was only 50 percent complete before my PC ground to a halt and I had to physically power it off in order to reboot. The second time, I thought I'd limit the possible results by checking Name, Time and Date (no CRC). After I let it run for about 24 hours, it was only 17 percent complete. I looked in the Windows Task Manager, and Duplicate Cleaner was using ~350K of memory, ~350K of virtual memory and 50% of the CPU resources, and the amount of memory used seemed to be increasing steadily, in small increments. So, I manually shut down the scan and decided to come here to ask for help.
I'd really like to support the tool and use it, but if it can't handle this many files (approx. 680 GB, just over 1.1 million files), I guess I'll have to look for a different solution. I'd greatly appreciate any tips, pointers or other help anyone here could give me.
Thanks!
Bob