Marc Posted December 17, 2009 Report Share Posted December 17, 2009 OK guys, I seem to have this problem with Sarah and copying video files and pictures rather than moving them to other places. Because of this I found that Ihave a lot of duplicated content on my harddrives. Now to put the problem into context, I have 3.5tb of hard drive space. For those of you who are none so technical, this is 3584 gig of space on my system. Thats a lot of places where there can be duplicates lying around. So tonight I decided I would have a look around and see if I could find a program that would find duplicated files on my system. I found one that seems to work quite well and shows me any file that it thinks is a duplicate (or sometimes triplicate in my case) on my drives. Here's the program, try it for yourself. http://doubles.sourceforge.net/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidjk Posted December 18, 2009 Report Share Posted December 18, 2009 thanks, i found i had lots of duplicates, im not so blessed for space with only 1.5tb god knows how i fill it up. will try it out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewbacca_&_me Posted December 18, 2009 Report Share Posted December 18, 2009 Hahahaha, Marc! She should do more duplicates just cuz you picked on her publicly...lol. I know i would be tempted to, hehehe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah Posted December 18, 2009 Report Share Posted December 18, 2009 Hahahaha, Marc! She should do more duplicates just cuz you picked on her publicly...lol. I know i would be tempted to, hehehe. hahaha - ohhhh don't give me ideas lmao Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunc Posted December 18, 2009 Report Share Posted December 18, 2009 Is this really gonna work ? Be careful if yours is out like mine when I take a picture it save on my camara as file dsc1000, dsc1001 and so on now if I upload them to my comp as a cut so they come off the camara what happens with the next lot of pictures I take ? thats right the file name goes back to dsc1000,if I run this program is it going to think every dsc1000 is the same file if so its a waste of time as I have some 10,000 pictures on my come and god knows how many start with said file name. And yes I got multi copys of same pics on harddrives because like most there are to many to sort and I got a life Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasp Posted December 18, 2009 Report Share Posted December 18, 2009 i haven't tried this program specifically, but most programs compare size as well (and other attributes like date) so names alone shouldn't cause a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewbacca_&_me Posted December 18, 2009 Report Share Posted December 18, 2009 LOL! Ive got more copies than I prob know, hehehehe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shura100 Posted December 20, 2009 Report Share Posted December 20, 2009 how do you use it lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted January 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2010 Is this really gonna work ? Be careful if yours is out like mine when I take a picture it save on my camara as file dsc1000, dsc1001 and so on now if I upload them to my comp as a cut so they come off the camara what happens with the next lot of pictures I take ? thats right the file name goes back to dsc1000,if I run this program is it going to think every dsc1000 is the same file if so its a waste of time as I have some 10,000 pictures on my come and god knows how many start with said file name. And yes I got multi copys of same pics on harddrives because like most there are to many to sort and I got a life Compares file size, file name, and various other file definitions in order to establish a genuine dupicate. Obviously its always worth checking them to make sure, but seems accurate to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erikkj2001 Posted January 20, 2010 Report Share Posted January 20, 2010 Nice. Im up to 7+ TB of HD space myself that is all filled. I could really use that program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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