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Siskods9
05-07-07, 02:42 PM
Guys,

I was wondering if anyone knows of a utlility that can help me find duplicate files (same file name) on my hard drive?

I just moved to Vista Ultimate X64.

Thanks :)

evilghost
05-07-07, 03:55 PM
At one point I wrote an application to take the MD5sum of all files on the filesystem and then compare them for duplicates, based on md5sum, not filename so it would catch renamed files that are duplicates.

Would this work for you?

Banko
05-07-07, 03:57 PM
At one point I wrote an application to take the MD5sum of all files on the filesystem and then compare them for duplicates, based on md5sum, not filename so it would catch renamed files that are duplicates.

Would this work for you?
That is an interesting project... Thanks for giving me a great idea on what to do on my free time :), out of curiosity how fast was it ?

evilghost
05-07-07, 03:59 PM
That is an interesting project... Thanks for giving me a great idea on what to do on my free time :), out of curiosity how fast was it ?

Fairly time consuming because the Win32 build of md5sum would have to read the entire contents of the file to calculate the md5 hash. I guess something like crc32 would have been faster.

Siskods9
05-09-07, 01:10 PM
Thanks for the offer Evilghost but I came across a piece of shareware which did exactly what I needed.

Thanks again :)