Main features
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Find & remove duplicate files |
Four scan modes available - Regular, Image, Audio & Video. |
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| Find & remove duplicate folders |
Find complete duplicated folder structures |
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| Find unique (non-duplicate)/remaining files |
Useful in drive/folder comparison scenarios |
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| Quick-start wizards |
Handy for getting a quick start with a range of scanning scenarios |
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| Themes |
Clean new GUI with user-changable themes (including dark mode) |
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| Load and Save scans |
Load and save complete scan sets or just the settings for later. |
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| Virtual folders |
Create your own offline 'virtual folders' to scan against - no need for the original drive/network share to be present. |
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| Toolkit |
Useful standalone tools including empty folder removal and file hashing. |
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| Scan your portable devices |
Duplicate Cleaner can now read portable media devices such as smartphones and mp3 players. |
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Regular Mode
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Find files with the Same Content |
Match any file type by a content hash (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256) or byte-to-byte
checking. Version 5 contains new hashes such as xxHash and Blake2b |
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| Find files with Similar Content |
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| Find file by comparing other attributes, ignoring content |
See 'Other Match Criteria'. |
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Image Mode
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Match similar images |
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| Match exact images (Ignoring metadata) |
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| Match rotated or flipped images |
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| Match by Image tags |
Includes date taken, Unique ID, User comment & more. |
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| Match similar Image tags |
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| Select image metadata to display in results |
Customize your results list. |
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| Match by camera date/time taken |
With a user definable tolerance in seconds. |
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| Match by geographical distance between images |
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| All popular image formats supported |
.bmp .gif .jpg/.jpeg/.jpe .heic .ico .png .emf .dib .tif/.tiff .webp |
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| Camera RAW Image formats supported |
.raw, .cr2, .nef, .dng, .arw, .crw, .kdc, .mos, .srw, .orf, .raf, .rw2, .x3f, .3fr, .mrw, .dcr, .erf, .mef, .pef, .sr2
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Audio Mode
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Match by similar sounding audio |
Match by first 15 seconds (quick), two minutes or whole track. |
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| Match by exact audio data (ignoring tags) |
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| Match by song duration (with tolerance) |
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| Match by audio tags |
Artist, Title, Album, TrackNo,TrackCount, DiscNo, DiscCount, Year, Genre, Comment, BitRate, SampleRate, Channels, MusicBrainzArtistID, MusicBrainzReleaseID,MusicBrainzTrackID, AmazonID (ASIN), AcoustID
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| Select audio metadata tags to display in results |
Customize your results list. |
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| Most popular audio formats supported |
.mp3 .ogg .wav .wma .flac .m4a .m4p .aac |
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Video Mode
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Match by similar video frames |
Match by the similarity of series of video frames from throughout the video. |
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| Match by video thumbnail |
Match by a thumbnail taken from the start of the video. |
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| Match by similar sounding audio soundtrack |
Match by first 15 seconds (quick), first two minutes or whole soundtrack. |
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| Match by exact audio data, video data or both (ignoring metadata) |
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| Match by video duration (with tolerance) |
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| Match by video metadata tags |
Title, Recorded date, Director,Performer, Genre, Episode, Format, Rotation, Has Audio, Has Cover Art
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| Most popular video formats supported |
mov, avi, mp4, mpg, wmv, flv, 3pg, asf, 3g2, webm, mkv, vob, m4v, mts, sec |
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Other Match Criteria
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Match any combination of the below in addition to Regular, Image or Audio
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| Same file name |
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| Similar file name |
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| Same file extension |
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| Match copied file names |
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| Same file size |
An additional file size tolerance can be specified |
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| Same created date/time |
An additional date/time tolerance can be specified |
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| Same modified date/time |
An additional date/time tolerance can be specified |
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| Same drive |
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| Same folder name |
Folder name match depth can be specified |
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| Same folder name (relative to search base) |
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| Ignore duplicate groups within same folder |
Duplicates can be EXCLUDED from the final list where ALL the duplicates in
that group are in the same folder. |
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Other scanning features
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Scan inside Zip files. |
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| Scan inside other archive formats |
rar, gz, tar, bz2, tgz, 7z, tar, jar |
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| Ignore zero size files |
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| Count hard-links to file |
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| Specify folders to ignore |
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| Specify folders to protect |
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| Search for duplicates that match a master folder/drive |
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| Search for duplicates that must match other folders/drives only |
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| Search for duplicates that must match within this folder only |
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File removal
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Delete files. |
Recycle bin optional |
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| Move or Copy files |
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| Rename files |
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| Create shorcuts to file |
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| Create symbolic links to file |
aka Soft links or symlinks |
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| Hard-link files |
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| Create batch files |
Export a batch file based on your marked list with customizable code |
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| Automatic empty folder removal |
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Search filters
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Limit search to certain file types. |
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| Limit search within a file size range |
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| Limit search to a date range |
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| Limit search to image/movie dimensions |
Image/Video modes |
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| Built-in search filter library - add your own. |
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Duplicate browsing & selecting
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Browse duplicates by detail list |
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| Browse duplicates by thumbnail view |
Supported thumbnails include all image formats and audio artwork |
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| Group, filter and sort files |
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| Search within list |
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| Create filter from text search |
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| Selection Assistant for help marking duplicate groups |
See manual for full list of Selection Assistant functions |
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| Selection Assistant for duplicate folders |
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| Built-in image preview tool for visual comparison of images |
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| Video preview |
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| Built-in audio player for previewing files |
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Safety features
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Don't scan system files/folders. |
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| Skip hidden folders |
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| Don't follow NTFS mountpoints & junctions |
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| Skip hard-linked files |
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| Check if all duplicates in group marked for removal |
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| Flag folders to protect before starting |
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Miscellaneous
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Launch scans using command line parameters. |
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| Export CSV file of duplicate files/folders |
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