#DUPLICATE FILE FINDER PRO PRO#
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– The option allowing backup and restore of wrongly deleted files may prove to be an anti-feature. – No information on number of files scanned, Gigabytes scanned, time elapsed, time remaining or percentage of task done. – Primitive interface to select folders to be scanned. Other, lesser annoyances of the program included : You’re left with clicking away on possibly thousands of boxes to complete the task.

Shift and Ctrl keys don’t even work the standard way to ease multiple row selection. Keep One, obviously, does not let you chose which one.

If Keep One does not satisfy your needs and you have more than a few dozen duplicates, it’s impossible to move on from there. You can’t say, for instance, delete all duplicate files on E which have a copy on D.

#DUPLICATE FILE FINDER PRO PRO#

Wise Duplicate Finder Pro only offers Keep One and Invert Selection. It needs an array of tools to be done right. The program shows you the list of all duplicate files, grouped together, and then the aim of the game is to pinpoint correctly all the excess ones, without deleting any necessary files, and especially system files. The report displayed 76 433 files and 119 GB scanned, 14 427 groups of duplicates, and 37 347 files having duplicates (totalling 4,53 GB).Ĭanceling the scan on Wise Duplicate Finder Pro brought up the second critical part of such a program : the screen which allows you to select redundant files in order to delete them.

#DUPLICATE FILE FINDER PRO FREE#

But using hashes to that effect is perfectly acceptable.Įven with the supposedly super-safe, alternative setting of byte-by-byte comparison, Duplicate Cleaner Free completed the scan in 36 minutes and 45 seconds. I don’t know the method used by Wise Duplicate Finder Pro to check on content. The huge difference may be partly explained because I set Duplicate Cleaner Free to check files’ content based on MD5 hashes. More than 5 hours for such a scan is much too long to be usable.Įspecially when Duplicate Cleaner Free managed the same scan in 9 minutes and 41 seconds. Fortunately, the program delivered results, albeit after 2 minutes of computing them. The progress bar was almost at its end at that stage, but there could have been a long time left. That particular scan took me 5 hours on Wise Duplicate Finder Pro - and counting. Exact comparison on content is of course slower. Comparing on file name and/or file size alone might be enough in some cases, but file deduplication is a dangerous operation, and there are many times when it would be foolish to take chances. I set the scan to Exact Match, because this is what you need for maximum reliability. I stopped evaluating Wise Duplicate Cleaner Pro when it became clear that it failed the basic, minimum requirements for my needs. Then, I scanned them again with Duplicate Cleaner Free, which is the best free such program I have found up to now. I scanned those partitions with Wise Duplicate Finder Pro. I have begun cleaning the duplicates, trying different programs in the process. A significant part of E are files that are redundant with D, which is my main data partition. My data disk drive is split into 2 partitions, D (235 GB written) and E (98 GB written). However, I believe many users have similar needs, and you may be interested. This is an evaluation I made for myself, testing the major features that are necessary for me. Don’t rely on the following if you’re looking for a comprehensive review.

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