What a pity that hard drives are not rubber! I wanted to download a couple of movies for the weekend yes to install a new game on the PC, but the annoyance - free space almost ended. And it is impossible to free it, because only important and necessary on the disk are stored.
Chin up! You can increase the amount of free space by 5-50% without risk to lose valuable information. How? By removing identical copies of documents, photographs, audio recordings, video and other good, which several hundred for the work of the computer is accumulated. So how to search and delete duplicate files in Windows
Unfortunately, the embedded disk cleaning tool is "not trained" to search for identical copies of data, and we will have to draw your gaze on third-party applications. In today's review - 5 free utilities that make this work quickly, clearly and clean.
AUSLOGICS Duplicate File Finder
The only thing is that the product is developed by AUSLOGICS, declares some level of quality and claims to confidence users. The program supports all Windows issues, updated regularly, has a Russian language and is very easy to master. To search for duplicates, it uses a special intelligent algorithm - compares not only the names, but also the internal contents of the files, which guarantees high accuracy of the results.
Functions and features AusLogics Duplicate File Finder
- Setting up the type of object type: All or only images, audio, video, archives and applications.
- Exception from file search is less and more specified.
- Exception from the criteria for finding titles, dates for creating files and attributes "hidden".
- Finding duplicates with certain names or a specified fragment in the name.
- 3 ways to remove a double: in the basket, irretrievably and by saving to the archive.
- Restoring data from the archive.
- Preview objects before removal.
- Support custom exclusion lists from scanning files and folders.
- System rollback to the recovery point from the program interface.
Use Auslogics Duplicate File Finder is easy and convenient. In addition, you can not fear that the program will destroy any data without your knowledge and recovery capability (only if you yourself did not choose the removal option by the basket). The impression spoils only the "unobtrusive" offer to establish other developer products, which sometimes appears when starting.
CloneSpy.
Utility CloneSpy. It is intended to search for duplicate files not only on the hard disk, but also on portable drives. It is a little more complicated in application than the Auslogics Duplicate File Finder, but more functional and is capable of working without installing on a computer - when you start the user installer, you can select its standard or portable option.
Functions and capabilities CloneSpy
- Support for any types of files.
- Search for duplicates according to identical contents or the same name together with another criterion - expansion, title, size.
- Finding zero-length objects.
- Many options for operations with copies of files: manual removal or automatically (you can select a new one or old object in advance), room in a specific folder, forming a list of duplicates without deleting and so on.
- Any operations with found duplicates (including pending) using batch command files.
- Replacing remote copies on labels or hard links.
- Calculating checksums for the possibility of checking objects for identity.
- Support user search filters.
CloneSpy functions quickly and smoothly, supports all versions of Windows, regularly receives updates, but does not have a Russian language, which makes it difficult to master it. In addition, some users repel the interface performed in the style of Windows 98.
Soft4Boost Dup File Finder
Utility developers Soft4.Boost.Dup.FileFinder They took care not only about functionality, but also about the beauty of their product: at your service - 11 stylish design options (skins). In addition, the application is translated into 9 languages, including Russian, and has an intuitive management.
Soft4Boost Dup File Finder embarks on the case at once - when you first start on the background of the main window, a wizard window opens, which step by step will take you through all the settings. Get confused and wrong.
Functions and Features Soft4Boost Dup File Finder
- Finding copies of objects by content.
- Select search category: among all files or only images, audio, video, archives or applications.
- Options to ignore object names.
- Scanning local and network folders, as well as removable media (you can select several).
- 2 ways to remove: in the basket and irretrievably.
Unlike many "free" applications that are trying to recoup their free installation of garbage or an intrusive advertising demonstration, Soft4Boost Dup File Finder only modestly offers to buy products of the same developer in bulk at 1399 rubles. If you do not need them, just do not click on the banner.
Like the remaining programs of today's review, Soft4Boost Dup File Finder supports all versions of Windows and is updated regularly.
Alldup.
Utility Alldup. Not so intuitive as the previous one, but rich in functions. Do not be in her Russian, to master all the possibilities in 5 minutes could not everyone. Although nothing complicated in this program. When you first start, together with the main window, there is a small prompt - the "Quick Start" window with three buttons: "Selecting the source folder", "selection of the search method" and "search start". Alternately pressing these buttons opens areas where you need to choose or configure.
Users who own English can master the AlldUp based on the materials of the built-in reference, which opens in the right place when you click on the question icons.
Functions and features of the AlldUp
- Large list of search criteria: Name, Extension, Size, Content, Dates and Change, File Attributes, Hard Links, Similar Images. Search by combining several criteria.
- Scanning the contents of archives (finding separate duplicates in archives).
- Customizable way to compare object names: on complete coincidence, according to initial characters in the name, according to a given number of coinciding characters, etc.
- Finding files with similar names.
- Comparison of file content.
- Flexible search parameters with the ability to choose additional actions before and after it.
- Maintain scan log.
- Flexibly customizable ignoring filter objects.
- Creating a rigid link or shortcut on the saved file on the place of the remote duplicate.
- No restrictions on the number of scanned directories.
- Scanning removable media.
- Previewing the files found with the display of various parameters - in case of difficulty when making a solution to delete.
- Drawing up convenient search results lists. Export lists to TXT or CSV format.
- Saving scan results. Allows you to close the program without waiting for the end of the check. And after re-starting, it is not first to start, but from the moment of the stop.
- Creating and save multiple settings profiles.
AllDUP differs from many competitors high speed scanning and full of duplicate objects. By the way, thanks to the search function for similar files, the program can be used to find any data on the hard disk without deletion.
Another pleasant feature of the Alldup utility is a complete lack of advertising. Instead of it, the "Support author" button is made on the top panel by any reasonable amount if you want it yourself.
Diskboss.
Diskboss. It is impossible to fully attribute to the class of programs to remove duplicate files. This is only one of the functions, in addition to which the utility can be very and very much. DiskBoss is a disk space optimizer and an enhanced file manager. It is intended to analyze the use of drives and manage all objects that are on them.
Functions and features diskboss
- The study of disk space with a display on a circular diagram, how much space are those or other objects.
- Classification, sorting and grouping of files and folders along a variety of criteria, including by user rules.
- Search and clean duplicate on workstations and servers running Windows. Flexible search criteria.
- Several options for action with found duplicates - deletion, archiving, transfer to another place, etc.
- Replace remote duplicate links.
- Saving scanning and cleaning discs from duplicated data in HTML, Excel, PDF, TXT, CSV and XML formats.
- Displays the result of searching duplicates on circular charts.
- Creating and performing automatic disk cleaning scripts.
- Improved disk data search system.
- Synchronize data in these directories.
- Deleting file groups based on specified criteria.
- Monitoring changes in real-time disk file system.
- Analysis of integrity and other file operations.
- Much.
The DiskBoss utility will be a good choice for those who need a complete picture of the contents and states of the disks, as well as the ability to manage all data on them using manual and automatic methods. The application is produced in free and several paid versions, and the first contains almost everything that is in the paid version of Pro, except for several automation tools.
Perhaps the only drawback of DiskBoss is the lack of Russian language, but for the sake of such wealth functions with this you can accept it. The rest of the utility is very good, and for some tasks it is indispensable.
Of course, this is a far from an exhaustive list of programs designed to delete identical copies of files. There are tens, and maybe hundreds. However, this modest set is enough to satisfy the needs of 90% of Windows users. I hope that something comes with you.
With the advent of Winchesters of the size of 10 GB and the question of the deficiency of the disk space no longer arises, but it does not give us a reason for the negligence disk space, which can be successfully given to more useful things, such as movies in MPEG4 format :)
So let us imagine that we have a huge collection of something, which is located in various folders and it seems to be classified. It can be a collection of music in mp3 format, drawings, cliparts, fonts, essays, texts, distributions, and other things, so to say the trash that we store "just in case" :) the problem is only that the twins have been played among these collections. These are absolutely identical files that simply differ in the name or even have the same names but are in different directories. It suggests a natural conclusion - kill twins. But how to find them?
Go to the directory in which you assume the doubles are located and call the "Search" tool (Alt + F7, and all the time I confuse with Alt + F8, which by the way causes the team of commands scored on the command line). If you have not yet noticed, then there are three bookmarks in the search dialog that has opened. Boldly open the middle tab "Advanced".
At the very bottom of the enhanced search dialog, you can see the "search for duplicates" - we will put a tick there, and slightly lower the conditions for the search for duplicates: by name, by name and size, by name in size and on the content or size and on the content.
Boldly clamp "Start Search!" And Total Commander will find you duplicates that will be listed in the search results window and will be divided by a dotted line.
It is convenient to press the "Files on the Panel" button now and the search dialog window will disappear, but in one of the file panels the temporary panel will be opened in which all duplicates from the results window will be listed. Now I advise you to press Ctrl + Q and you can verify whether the files are really duplicates.
If you do not displays the images of GIF JPG PSD and others, music is not played in MP3 and video format, it means that you are not installed or configured
In this material it will be about the tools for the identification of duplicate photos. In particular, today in our review there are six programs at once to search for duplicate photos on a Windows computer. We will compare and choose among them the best and fastest.
Search for the same photos: programs and their comparison
The reasons for the demand of the programs for searching the same photo on the computer may be several, for example:
- Your collection could grow so much that duplicates already occupy a lot of space;
- You need a tool that will find the same or similar photos, having relished you from the need to view these images yourself.
In our selection there was a place for six interesting programs, four of which are distributed free of charge. Below in the text we:
- We will tell about each of these search programs and help you faster to navigate in their interface;
- Conduct the comparison of all programs in which we will see how they cope with the search for identical images when they are easy modification;
- Check how well the program can cope with a large set of photo weighing in several gigabytes.
Find duplicate photos using Image COMPARER
The first program in our review, seeking duplicates of the photo, is called Image Comparer. Its strengths: good functionality and translated interface translated into Russian, including detailed reference information.
Now about the shortcomings. The first - the program is not free. However, the license cost is humane 350 rubles (although the site for some reason is the number 500). In addition, the first 30 days you can use Image Comparer for free.
The second negative moment is in the light of confusion, which can confuse an inexperienced user. For example, in order to search within the framework of one folder (in which others can be attached) you need to click on the "Create Gallery" button and select the desired directory in which scanning will be performed.
Next, you will immediately offer to give a name and save the file created by the gallery at any convenient place (this file will be needed by the program itself). Once this will be done, in front of you in the form of a list or thumbnail, a list of all images in the specified folder and its subfolders will open:
The buttons marked with arrows run the search for duplicates. The first button - search within the same gallery (the folder you selected), the second button is slightly right - within a few galleries. We went to the first option.
Following the program suggested creating another service file in which the results will be maintained for further access to them. Actually, creating a file for the gallery and this file with the search results is just a little confusing inexperienced user. However, then everything is simple. Found duplicates will appear in front of you:
They can be viewed in the form of a miniature or, clicking on the "Pair of Images", go to mind, where photos will be compared with each other:
The slider in the center allows you to adjust the imaging threshold. Set 100% and only the list of identically similar to each other will remain in front of you. Lower values \u200b\u200bwill be displayed only similar photos.
In the settings you can see a huge list of formats from the basic JPG and PNG to more exotic, with which the program works. Formats can be added and excluded from the search. You can also customize the records of reflected and turned pictures.
- Image COMPARER program. Official site ;
- Russian language;
Finding the same photos in three clicks with Visipics
Next program - Visipics. Unlike the above-described IMAGE COMPARER, VISIPICS is a free app, which also specializes in duplicate photos. Alas, there is no localization to Russian here, but it is not necessary to get upset about this: everything is simple and extremely clear.
With the help of the navigation side panel (we circled it into the frame), select the desired directory. Next, press the arrow with the "+" icon to add this folder to the list to search. If you wish, you can choose a few more folders. Finally, by the third step, press the Play button to start the process of finding duplicates.
To the right of it is a special slider where you can adjust the level of "care" of the program. In the case of the default, the basic level of Visipics detected only two groups of duplicates for us, one of which consisted of three images, and the other of two:
These are the images that the program considers almost identical duplicates. However, if you drop the slider to Loose, it will be just similar to each other images. In our case, when installing Loose, instead of the Basic, the app has found four more (in the final test below - 5) groups of duplicates, and one of the two already found four more pictures:
Additional options for the program is relatively few. Here you can configure the search in subfolders (by default it is enabled), displaying hidden folders, accounting for photos turned 90 degrees. On the Loader tab, you can ask Visipics to ignore small files or, on the contrary, pictures in too much resolution. The latter is important for speed.
- Visipics program. Official site ;
- English language;
- Distribution: free.
Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder search program
If you are looking for it is an extremely simple program for a high-quality search for duplicate photos and images, in which it would be elementary easy to figure out, then pay attention to the awesome duplicate Photo Finder. The interface is in English here, but it is so simple that everyone will figure it out.
Using the "+" button, specify the directory you need to search or multiple directories, and then click Start Search and search will begin. The Scan Subdirectories option is enabled by default and is responsible for searching in subfolders. With its tasks, the program copes, finding as very similar:
So slightly more different with each other:
In the program settings you can set a 100% compliance if you need only exactly the same photos.
The settings themselves, as you can see, a little. Perhaps the saddest thing is that the program works with only five main formats: BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF and TIFF. And the last default is not taken into account.
There are also options to ensure the removal of duplicates directly to the basket and disabling the pop-up confirmation. Another program is able to update automatically.
- Official site ;
- English language;
- Distribution: free.
The Similar Images Finder app meets us to be uncomfortable message in English that $ 34 needs to pay for it. Nevertheless, for 30 days, the program is ready to work for free. A window appears, offering choosing directories to search for duplicates:
From it, we learn that Similar Images Finder supports 29 image formats, and the user can select specific formats for searching or excluding extra. The list, among other things, you can observe ICO and WBMP.
When you click Next, you start the search for duplicates, and when it is completed, click Next again to see additional settings. Adjusting them, you can more carefully configure what is displayed in the results list. Finally, by pressing Next for the third time, you will see the result itself:
Go to the next picture found by pressing the miniature arrow in the upper right corner. The entire list of found duplicates opens by clicking on a large button at the top with the current files.
In turn, pressing the Next button below will lead to the final stage of operation. There, the program will display a list of what, in her opinion, is definitely duplicates and will offer them to remove them. In the screenshot above, Similar Images Finder coped with the image where the watermark was added, as well as the contrast of the histogram.
Distinguishing between the pictures the program counted at the level of 5.5%. At the same time, in another example, where a strong blur effect was added to the second picture, the difference, according to the application, for some reason, was only 1.2%:
Alas, a program, finding real duplicates, the default shows many very unlike each other images, as if there is something in them:
- Program Similar Images Finder. Official site ;
- English language;
- Distribution: for a fee, 30 days of free use.
Universal search for duplicates with Duplicate Remover Free
Duplicate Remover Free is the only program in our review, which is focused on not specifically on duplicate photos, but on the search for duplicates as a whole.
As practice shows, such universal solutions do not very well show themselves in tasks associated with some narrower area.
However, we give a chance to one such program today. As the word FREE prompts - it is distributed free of charge. The second advantage of the application is Russian, and the third is relative modernity against the background of other programs in this selection, many of which, to great regret, have not been updated for many years.
You should click on the "Add Directory" button and select the desired folders. By default, the program in a given catalog did not find anything for us at all, however, when we chose "similar images" at the top instead of "accurate duplicates", four groups of duplicates were found, one of which consisted immediately from three files:
Additional features of the application quite a bit. In particular, you can exclude files from searching before and after a certain size.
- Duplicate Remover FREE program. Official site ;
- Russian language;
- Distribution: free.
Search matching photos on various algorithms with antidupl
The final member of our review - the Antidupl program can like you immediately for several reasons. First, it is free. Secondly, she has a Russian interface. The latter, however, is not obvious. In order to enable Russian, open the View menu and select the appropriate item in the Language section:
Unlike others, this program is not installed, but is located in a self-extracting archive that retrieves it with the necessary files into a separate folder.
To prepare a duplicate search, click on the Open Signature button and in the Add Catalogs you need in the window that appears:
You can click OK, and then activate the green button "Start Search" on the toolbar. Using the basic algorithm, the program found several groups of duplicates for us:
Switching at the top of the algorithm to more free SSIM, we have already received two groups of duplicates more, and after an increase in "Freedom" search from 20 to 35%, the program issued us a more detailed list:
At the same time, in all cases, they were really found at least noticeably similar to each other images. So do not break to experiment with the settings.
Additional options for the program a lot:
On the Search tab, you can find out that Antidupl supports 13 formats, among which in addition to traditional JPG / PNG, there is icon, PSD and EXIF. Of course, formats can be chosen. Even in the options there is a test of defects, blockness and blur, and in the last two cases you can set the threshold. It is possible to search in hidden and system catalogs.
- Antidupl program. ;
- Russian language;
- Distribution: free.
When searching for duplicates, some of the users are interested in 100% compliance to get rid of the doubles in their collection. However, it is often arising and the task of finding simple pictures.
And here is a huge space for possible differences. This can be different formats, permissions, cropped versions of the same image, adding frames and watermarks, changed colors and signatures in pictures.
We tried to take into account most of these factors and after all samples created a small set with more than six dozen pictures. We created nine groups of duplicates. To be honest, on the truth in the last instance our experience does not accurately pretend, but it was interesting to try. The results are as follows:
- Duplicate Remover FREE: I found only 3 groups of duplicates;
- Similar Images Finder: Found 4 groups, but an uncomfortable interface, a lot of false results and at the same time the application paid a strong impression;
- Antidupl found 3 types of duplicates by default, installing the SSIM algorithm increased the search result to 5 groups;
- Visipics, with the basic search level, found only 2 groups of duplicates, but the installation of the slider to the Loose level made it possible to find already 7 groups;
- Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder found 7 groups of duplicates;
- Image Comparer also managed to detect 7 groups.
At the same time, Image Comparer managed to find images that missed the awesome duplicate Photo Finder and Visipics, and those, in turn, filled the IMAGE COMPARERER gaps.
The fastest programs for searching duplicate photos
At the same time, the quality of the program also depends on its speed. 60+ pictures - this is, of course, not what users can work with. Therefore, we spent another test. This time for speed. To do this, we took a selection of 4450 of a wide variety of images, the total weight of which exceeded 2.1 GB.
Two programs from this review, alas, did not take any place in the test. As it turned out, Similar Images Finder, for which 34 dollars are asked, the free version is ready to process no more than 200 images.
In turn, the universal search engine Duplicate Duplicate Remover Free, faced with a serious-size catalog, worked intensively for more than five minutes, and then thoroughly hung. The rest of the programs have shown the following time:
- Antidupl: 0:39;
- Image COMPARER: 1:02 (35 seconds to create a gallery and 27 to search);
- Visipics: 2:37;
- Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder: 3:17.
As a result, image comparer and antidupl were clearly embarrassed in the speed of speed in the leaders. To process our archive, they left around or, in the case of antidupl, less than a minute.
Conclusion
Let's summarize. If you need to find not the same, namely, similar photos, distinguished, for example, a signature or a watermark, then better than the others with this task will be Credited by Image Comparer, Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder and Visipics in Loose mode.
In terms of processing speed of the numerous collection collection, unconditional leaders - Antidupl and Image Comparer.
Finally, in terms of the interface feature, we liked image comparer and visipics, with the move allowing you to visually evaluate all groups of duplicates. In turn, for the clarity of the comparison of the characteristics of individual duplicates, we also note antidupl.
Last time we examined, and today we will consider a free program to search for the same files on the computer. (as well as music and images).
The program is called Duplicate Cleaner Free., you can download it from my disk :
The program has Russian. After starting, a feeling may appear and how to use it))) But everything is very easy ...
When you start, the search criteria window immediately appears. There are separate settings for looking for images and music. We choose what you need and go to the scan path section.
Here you need to choose where to produce duplicates. I chose a disk with information. And click Scan.
The process of searching duplicates will go.
After finding a list with duplicates. By selecting an assistant, you can set the selection criteria or select all manually putting a tick on the side. What you do not need to remove, the top button in the panel.
The program is free, but there is a paid feature that helps more conveniently find the same folders. But this feature is not particularly needed.
So S. using a free program to search for duplicates You can find many similar files and folders.
Surely any of us on the disk over time the duplicate files accumulate. Files in the "downloads" that you downloaded several times, the same photos and musical compositions lying in such deprants that they simply do not reach their hands. You can get rid of all this manually, but much more quickly for you will work for special utilities, seeking identical files.
A very popular "cleaner", which is probably installed for everyone. Yes, it is not only to look for a system trash and clean the history and cookies of browsers, but also to remove duplicate files.
Platforms: Windows, Mac.
Price: FREE, 24.95 dollars for the extended version.
The program is looking for files with both the same or similar names and with identical content. It works well with music and can find the same music files, even if they have different tags. In addition, DupeGuru can compare images to find not only the same, but also just similar photos.
Designed for Mac and Linux. The Windows version is no longer supported by the developer, but it can be downloaded from the official site - it is fully operational.
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux.
Advanced application for searching for files, which, among other things, can delete duplicates. SearchMyFiles has flexible filters, so you can customize the search results as you please.
Platforms: Windows.
A popular Mac application that is looking for identical or similar files and shows what the difference between them. Copies in the "Photo", in the iTunes phonothek - by Gemini 2 will not go through anything. Developers are declared a smart duplicate search mechanism that remembers which files you leave, and what decide to delete.
Platforms: Mac.
Although the AlldUp is free, she can make a lot. Searches, deletes, copies and moves duplicate files, including identical audio recordings with different tags. There is a flexible search configuration. Using the built-in viewer, you can explore the files and choose what exactly is deleted.
Platforms: Windows.
Duplicate File Finder quickly and effectively finds out copies files. Provides an interesting opportunity to search for duplicates not only on a hard disk, but also on the local network. It can work with images and music, comparing both tags and content. The feature of the preview will help figure out what to delete, and what to leave. Unfortunately, in a free version, quite a few options are not available.
Platforms: Windows.
Price: FREE, 29.95 dollars for the extended version.
Universal file manager who can do with your files anything. Including to find duplicate files. You can enable copy search option on a tab with search options, where other attributes of the search files are specified.
Platforms: Windows.
Dupeguru looks like the most attractive option. It is free, while it offers all the necessary functions to get rid of your disc from the accumulated junk. It is upset only the fact that the development of the version for Windows is stopped. Windows users who do not want to pay for commercial alternatives, the AllDUP will suit more. And CCleaner and Total Commander are more versatile and common solutions that are probably already installed for everyone.
