Duplicate File Finder

[M12_GTO]

I'm running out of hard drive space but I am sure I have duplicates and sometimes even triplicates of the same song so I may as well delete them. This is where my problem arose. How do I find all the different versions of the same song? For starters they may be a different Mb size, a slightly different length, a slightly different name etc. Surely there must be a good piece of software out there that can do this job for me. Has anyone had any experience of such a program and can make any recommendations?

Thanks

[Mist]

Do you have a linux box on your network?

[Mist]

Do you have a linux box on your network?

If not, I'd suggest maybe doing a search for all your music files, then copying the results into say excel or something and viewing it in there.

[M12_GTO]

I can do that - wow!

[Mist]

I can do that - wow!

I should think so.

though looking at the search it appears that you can't actually copy stuff from the results window. So that's my great idea out the window then.

[M12_GTO]

No I can't do that! :blush: How does one do a search and copy the results into Excel?

[Indrid Cold]

I'm pretty sure Windows has a program that can find duplicate files... If I remember correctly, you can find it by right clicking on your hard drive in "My computer" and clicking properties. It should be somewhere in there.

[Makoto]

System Mechanic can find dupes. www.iolo.com

[morrocan roll]

System Mechanic can find dupes. www.iolo.com
brilliant prog for cleaning up.
but ...when you ask it to find duplicates it may well find duplicates that you need ...beware.

[M12_GTO]

Thanks for your suggestions. Found over 100 duplicate mp3s - now I have space to download 100 more! :-)