Utlility for finding duplicate files

[Moses on the Street]

Hey guys, do any of you guys know of a user friendly, shareware program that will find duplicate files? After moving my image files around several times I'm finding that I do have lots of duplicates and I could stand to free up some hard drive space.

Thanks.

[OTRphoto]

I know what you mean about the duplicates.. I've consolodated drives and swapped out computers a couple times over the past couple of years and occassionally say.. hmmm I thought I had this over here.. and sure enough I find copies in a few different places

No idea about the software.. but would also be interested to know if anything is out there for this....

[andyz]

I believe Picasa (a freebie) will do that for you.

[RobyMD]

I'm doing something similar right now using ACDSEE. I love this program for many reasons. Although it's not free it's pretty reasonable for the non pro version. The good thing about this program is when you point it to a drive or directory of images you want to hunt down the duplicates. It will find dupes based on file name or on exact images. You may find that the names of the files are different in different folders. Also it shows the images so you can make sure they are truly duplicates and you are able to right click and go to the directories which the images are in.

Anyway try it. It has a full functional 30 day free trial if you don’t like it no money spent. After you download it you’ll see all the other benefits also.