This is an update to my original review.
In that review I gave this program only 2 start because it was not doing things it should which could have caused a problem. After testing several other programs to do this job for me I have to admit even with the bugs, this program is still better than all of the others I tested. The issues about not giving a warning when deleting all files from the same group (noted in my original post) resolved it self the next day, not sure why but hey after the date changed that issue was gone. I am going to raise my score on this program to 3 stars because there are still some odd issues such as when a lot of files are in the list of dupes sometimes clicking on the group with the preview on does not show the images of the items in the group. Moving down the list to the first file in the group and making that image show then going back up to the group main list will cause all files to appear in the preview.
All that said, I will send in my findings of things that need corrected and if these things happen I would consider the paid version and bumping up the rating to 4 stars. I won't give it 5 stars unless the interface gets less cumbersome, it is a little odd to use.
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- Recommend to a friend? Yes
- Posted Jun 04, 2012 for v3.4.0
This dup search software has near every setting you can think of and then some.
It may be a bit extreme for some users with all the settings so I gave it a 4 star for this reason, not a 5, interface could have better grouping.
That said, it would be better to ask what this dup search CAN'T do? It will find files byte by byte, by name, by size, etc... and believe me, far too many options for me to list here. It was dead on at finding my .MP3 dup files, even those with changed name, extension, etc... but you have to set the search options correctly. This is not a basic dup finder, so if you use it, be prepared for all sorts of options. It will look at and break down to the smallest files of any folder or application which would be overboard so I set it to match by less criteria.
I've only scratched the surface of using this. There are options for scanning zip or rar, you can exclude numerous file types, include many file types, basically, you can "after getting used to the interface" fine tune your search to what you want. I think with some interface work, this will be one of the best dup finders out there.
Intense options yes, but get used to it, you have one fine application.
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- Ease of use
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- Recommend to a friend? Yes
- Posted Apr 09, 2011 for v3.3.1.0
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