CloneSpy helps you free hard drive space by detecting and removing duplicate files.
It doesn't matter if the name is not exactly the same or has a different time, date creation or location, on the inside the file is the same. A great feature is that it can find duplicates of any size, or only of a certain size range. Sometimes it happens that you download a file several times but with CloneSpy find duplicate files automatically eliminating the need of spending time searching the hard drive or an entire CD/DVD collection. Furthermore Clonespy can find zero length files, these files are those that do not have any content at all. CloneSpy handles the files by deleting them or moving the redundant ones to a specific folder avoiding its elimination and enabling the user to perform arbitrary file operations. Build checksum files from files on CD, DVD or even external hard drives, using them to compare whether these files already exist on your system thus preventing from having to spend hours searching for duplicates.
“CloneSpy offers you a complete mechanism for determining which duplicate or same-name files should be removed. It is also possible to leave this decision up to the individual user.”
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Why was CloneSpy written?
Do you often download files from the Internet? Is your hard drive crowded with these files? Have you ever asked yourself which files you have downloaded more than once? Perhaps you have burned files to a CD and retrieved them again? Do you want to find these files and eliminate the duplicates? Maybe you want to find duplicate files without checking your entire collection of backup CDs every time? Then CloneSpy is the right tool for you!
What can CloneSpy do?
CloneSpy can help you free up hard drive space by detecting and removing duplicate files. Duplicate files have exactly the same contents regardless of their name, date, time and location. Also, CloneSpy is able to find files that are not exactly identical, but have the same file name. Perhaps you have different versions of a file and you want to find all of them and remove the older versions. CloneSpy can also find zero length files. These are files that have no content.
With CloneSpy you can process files which:
CloneSpy can handle equal files by:
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deleting redundant files
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moving redundant files to a specific folder
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exporting a list of all equal files without removing any files
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deferring file operations on redundant files to a batch file where you can apply arbitrary file operations
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replacing redundant files with shortcuts or hard links (NTFS) to retained files
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OS requirements:
Win 98 Se/Win NT/Win Me/
Win 2000/Win XP/
Vista/Win 7
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