Duplicate Cleaner v1.3 features / wishlist

[Ulrik]

Hi
I thin "version 1.3 out soon" is misleading when were are talking several month. Why not just drop it. If we have version 1.2 now - 1.3 would be next. Either not mention anything or say "will be out in 2008" is my sugestion

-i like the program by the way :=)

[Kenneth Hackney]

I have a USB2 drive with 0ver 30,000 music files, mp3, wma and some AAC. Many are based on my CD collection, but one or two catastrophic drive crashes forced me to back things up externally (I now have 3 duplicate collections on 3 drives) but know that every time I dump the latest accumulations off my PC I add some unnecessary copies to each collection. The last time I tried a program to search for duplicates it crashed the external drive and was unrecoverable. (Hence 3 external drives now.)

Of my 30,000 music files I may have 20-30% duplicates.

I am about to replace my Pentium 4 (3.33gHz)laptop running XP Pro with with a new Core 2 Duo with T8100 processor. Alas, the new one only comes with Vista.

Should I try to use the old machine (which is prone to unexpected blue-screens) or wait and try it on the Vista machine?

How long should I expect such a process to take? I'm talking at least 30,000 files (180GB of files) on a 300GB drive in several thousand folders. Hours? Days?

[DigitalVolcano]

Ulrik - I'll pull that note from the webpage - 1.3 is taking longer than I planned!

Kenneth-
Difficult to say how long - a music search will probably take a few hours. Even if the computer crashes during the process it shouldn't harm the files.

[firewiz]

A great software....

It would be nice if it could scan for duplicate files within .rar or .zip files too.

[cjbarth]

I agree that the checksum of a file should only be checked if the size is the same, or at least an option should be made to enable that. However, while MD5 is faster than CRC, it isn't that much faster, after all you still have to read the entire file, which is the slow part. So I would suggest removing the CRC module all together and replacing it with the MD5 module with the option to only check if the file sizes (and possibly dates and/or names, the more options the better) are exactly the same.

[cjbarth]

And please multi-thread your application. When it is scanning or comparing the whole window freezes and I can't do anything with it, and nothing is updated as the duplicate is found. I'm trying to check for duplicate files over a network. There are about 100,000 files in 30 GB, so I would like a status update about what is going on.

Complicating matters even further is that most of the files are the same size since they are log files, they just contain different information.

[Koba]

Excuse for my English. It is possible to make check mp3 files on contents without accounts of tags? (often contained identical, and tags different)

[DV]

cjbarth - I working on making the next version more responsive and less processor-intensive.

Koba - You can't currently find duplicate songs with different tags, sorry!

Ulrik - Done

[Mark (Canada)]

I LOVE tihs little utility. It's helped me so much in my little install.

I have a question: Is there a feature in the program which warns you if you have selected to delete all files of the same CRC? Like, let's say, you accidentally check the wrong files, or use the selection assistant to pick the wrong files, and your selections encompass all of the same of file. If that happens, is there a way the program can you warn you saying "Warning: You have selected all occurrences of XXX.JPG, are you sure you want to do this?"

If you respond, copy it to my address: "random 2k" (with no space) AT "hot . com . mail' (rearrange the domain)

Thanks again! Mark - Canada

[DigitalVolcano]

Hi Mark -
Yes, DC will warn you if you try and delete all copies of a file in any group (eg same CRC)