Duplicate File Detective 4.3

This program can look for duplicate files using algorithms based on file attributes and contents. It is even capable to find duplicate songs for you regardless of their audio format. The program offers you several actions to take with the duplicate files found – delete, move, or zip them.

Duplicate File Detective allows you to select the drives or folders you want to scan looking for duplicate files. You can choose several paths to be analyzed, and you can establish some exclusions too. In a similar way, you can also create filters to narrow down your searches. You can use wildcards or filter your search by file dates and sizes. As for the file attributes, you can include or exclude from your search system files, hidden files, subfolders, and zero-size files.

You can also open the "comparison options" window, where you can set many more parameters related to your search for duplicate files. For example, you can set whether to compare or not the file names, extensions, sizes, and contents. You can even set to make a byte-for-byte content match confirmation, a search method that will take a long time to complete. In this window you can also configure the hashing method, as the program also compares files based on checksums. Finally, you can also tell the program what music tags to compare when dealing with audio files.

Once the searching is finished, you will see a Duplicate File Summary Report with useful information about the duplicates found. After that, you can decide what action to take with them. In conclusion, Duplicate File Detective is a comprehensive tool that helps you to find duplicate files on your system and to get rid of them, recovering disk space and keeping a clean and tidy file system.