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I like ‘Zortam Music Studio’ for music because it compares tags, so if I have three versions of a song, all different lengths, even different formats, the tags may be the only identifier to make a match, allowing me to clean up duplicate songs.Clean Master for PC cleans and optimizes your PC by purging temporary files, invalid and obsolete Registry entries, and other 'junk' from your Windows PC.

I like ‘Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder’ for photos, it’s slow, not automatic, but lets me see two images side by side, and manually select one to delete, then it knows to show me the next match, including multiple duplicates. I could find no option to ‘leave ONE copy of a file only, the shortest path, the shortest filename’ and accomplish my goal in ON PASS.Ĭonclusion: this is an immature program, a one-trick pony, so to speak.Īlternatives: there are hundreds of free and inexpensive alternatives, keep looking, and tell us what you prefer. Whew – that’s a lot of work – aren’t computers supposed to do the work?

So I had to rescan the same directory over and over, re-selecting ‘filter’ results to remove, over and over, for example, selecting ‘longest path’ over and over, re-scanning and re-selecting and deleting and re-scanning and re-selecting and deleting until there were 0 results, then re-scan and select the ‘longest filename’, and do that over and over until zero results. Presentation screens are NOT resizable to use the gigantic screen area of modern screens. All it does is compare file hash, not the actual user-perceived content, not image content, or music content, or video content, such as different formats of the same content, or different sizes of the same content.Īnd it does not remember preferences, so every time I scanned I had to re-tell it my choices of what patterns and criteria to include and exclude.Īnd it does not present the results in an easily browsable Windows File Explorer format, but only in a -l-o-n-g- and endlessly blindingly non-communicative list with the actual filenames off-screen to the right of the pathname.

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