Duplicate file finder

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http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/duplicate-file-finder/ (there are others available, of course)

I always wondered whether any software like this exists, and it turns out that it does. It finds duplicated files on one's hard drive (there are options to search in only certain folders, to ignore small files and to only search for certain file types) and lets one choose whether to delete any of the repeated files (and if so, which ones), allowing one to save a lot of space. It's particularly useful for those of us who save thousands of pictures from image boards and don't know whether we have multiple copies of facepalm.jpg or trollface.png or shittingdicknipples.gif.

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That's a really awesome find! I need something like that to delete the extraneous duplicate por...I mean RO....I mean very legally owned text files that happen to wind up in different directories.    <.<   >.>    Yeah, that'll work.

Oddly enough, I decided to make a folder size indicator that gives me color-coded info on the relative size of each folder. Basically when I'm getting low on disk space, this prog can tell me where all that used space is. So far the majority of it appears in the windows folder, "Program Files", and the "My Docs" folder with the Morrowind folder coming in at a close fourth. ;)
 
What I'd like to know is which one of them is fastest, if you have a really considerable set of data. Say, >100 000 images. I've tried quite a few, and most of them get ass numbingly slow, when you put them to a task like that.

On a related note, there's at least one program that works pretty much like TinEye - and predates it by several years. It had some serious issues last time I tried it, I don't think it's very Vista/7-compatible.

It's really nice toy to have. Not the fastest thing ever, so you'll need to clean all actual byte-to-byte identicals first.

But still, let's assume I really liek this pic of Hwang Mi Hee (which I do). I don't need six different sized copies, some that might have been compressed more than others, nor some that have watermarks while some do not. I'd prefer to have just one; the best one. :P

Sadly I don't remember what the hell that thing was called. But if someone finds it - even better, if someone finds more than one of those, please post. :) (yeah, Picasa's face recognition does something similar, but it's not really meant for this purpose)
 
What I'd like to know is which one of them is fastest, if you have a really considerable set of data. Say, >100 000 images. I've tried quite a few, and most of them get ass numbingly slow, when you put them to a task like that.
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I'm not sure what most of them are like, but I scanned 400GB of external hard drive data (over 200,000 files) and it took a fair few hours.

hehehe... sh*ttingdicknipples.gif.......
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Yeah. That would be pretty crazy, huh? :D

It's actually a jpg ;)
 
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