Know a good tool for finding duplicate files?

[hdsgjkhdfk]

Hey does anybody know of a tool that can do the following:find all duplicate files on your PC + giving you the option to automatisize the deleting of the duplicate files (even duplicate folders) + deleting all duplicates in one folder where you manually can set which file/folder to be original default/original. Lets say you have about 2.000 duplicate files(which would be a hell of a job deleting manually), and what I want is to be able to set which folder is the one I want to keep. So lets say I get about four duplicates of each file, I want that the prog deletes all duplicates leaving just one (the one I set to be kept). Sorry that I might have expressed myself a little silly, but I hope you understand what I´m after. Thanx anyway.

McClikkLinCosh

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

http/download.cnet.com/Auslogics-Duplicate-File-Finder/3000-2248_4-10964299.html

this works well!

 

[goodtom]

I know a software that can remove all the duplicates in outlook. That is winpst Outlook Duplicate Remover. This software charges a fee but I think you can use its trial version to just delete some duplicates for you and reduce your work.

 

[Salt-City_Slasher]

If your trying to get rid of duplicates with one or two files or 100 folders, all you do is make a new file and put them all into it, and when it asks, tell it to remove the duplicates or copy/replace!

 

[brandoncatz]

TreeSize might have an options for this. Check it out. It is a great piece of software. I would imagine that if there is one that will do this, it would be the full version, but there is a free one to check out.

http/www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

 

[wildoc82]

I have used the Duplicate File Cleaner and it is a very good software to do this job. Is easy to use and quite accurate, although I will advice you to manually go through the results once, because Once I simply deleted all files which the software had marked as duplicate and unfortunately some important files were also deleted and as a result a few programs had to be reinstalled. The only sore point is its price, about $25. But if you have many external drives and large volumes of data to scan, you can definitely save a lot of space. Like I have a total of six external drives. By using this software, I was able to put a copy of all duplicate files in one hard disk (just as a backup) and I deleted all other copies. This way I was able to free up a disk with 500 GB. So pretty good deal. But if you really do not have so much data, then I am not sure if anyone would want to spend $25. Then one can look for freeware like easy duplicate finder. But the freeware are not without problems themselves.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Great answers!