Eradicate duplicate files from your music collection
Going through huge numbers of files one by one to see which ones have been duplicated can be a complete pain and very time consuming. dupeGuru is a tool to make the job easier by finding duplicate files on your computer.
It can scan either file names or contents so it can search deep inside documents. dupeGuru not only finds file names that are the same, but it also finds similar file names. dupeGuru offers a safe and rapid way to update huge numbers of files at the same time without any extra effort on your part. dupeGuru not only allows you to delete duplicate files but also move or copy them elsewhere.
However, if some duplicates are not as clear as others, dupeGuru uses a special algorithm which can mark out which files genuinely are separate and which ones are just similar thanks to the Power Marker. dupeGuru saves you time and does its job extremely quickly. However, it can still be confusing which files are duplicates and which are not. Sometimes dupeGuru selects files which it thinks are duplicates but in reality are not so be careful what you allow it to delete. It also has a habit of missing some duplicate files from time to time. It ignores files under 30MB by default although you can deactivate this.
Most recently, dupeGuru has been totally revamped to make a much slicker app. However, the preferences still aren't easy enough to access if you're making lots of scans and need to customize the way dupeGuru searches for each one.
dupeGuru is a super quick way to weed out those files which you don't need any more or which are taking up valuable space on your hard drive.
Added the "Folders" scan type.Fixed a couple of crashes.
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Added the "Folders" scan type.Fixed a couple of crashes.
User reviews about dupeGuru
by Bill T
I tried it with zip files with no results. I have found others that work with them.
by Braden Dodge
At first, dupeGuru seemed to be great. It removed all the duplicates from a collection of downloaded YouTube files, even ones with different file names, and it did it just as well as any paid program I have used. But then I hit a huge problem. I tried to remove a large number of duplicates that exceeded the maximum size of my recycle bin. There is no option to just delete selected files only send selected to recycle bin. And when it did this it crashed windows. Further more, my recycle bin appears to be permanently corrupted. Whenever I right click the full recycle bin (even after multiple Windows restarts) the Windows File Explorer crashes.
It appears that dupeGuru may be very incompatible with Windows 10. More