What's new in Duplicate Cleaner Free 5.0.13
Sep 10, 2021
- Image search - custom similarity setting
- Import CSV (with optional user added columns)
- Desktop added in folder tree
- Added-"drop folder tree" in Parent menu
- Added-"protect/unprotect" in Parent menu
- Smooth scrolling and updating added as option (on by default)
- Save scan - show last loaded name in save box
- Filter to selected rows
- Filter by protected files
- Fix-Checkbox doubleclick opens files
- Fix-Recalculate group shading when filtered
- Fix-Selection highlight colour changes depending on group background colour
- Fix-Image preview - keyboard F4 to close
- Fix-Text matching SelAsst operations fail on Numeric columns
- Fix-Re-filtering in tile mode doesnt work
- Installer DotNet framework >=4.7.2 check
- Hungarian and Slovak translations updated.
- Manual updated
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 4.1.4 (Jan 30, 2020)
- Translation update and fixes
- Command line license key registration implemented for version 4.x installer (-register="00000-00000-00000-00000-000000" flag)
- Bugfix: Not matching first folders in root in 'Same folder name'
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 4.1.3 (Oct 28, 2019)
- Updates and improvements to Camera RAW Image support
- Improvements to the updating of the Duplicate Folder list after removing files
- Bugfix: Error messages on starting (Path/Folder tree)
- Language updates
- Installer tweaks
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 4.1.2 (May 22, 2019)
- Move/Copy via Windows Shell now optional
- Improvements for users with High-Contrast themes
- A few other minor tweaks
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 4.1.1 (Nov 9, 2018)
- Can now read metadata from Camera RAW Images (Scanning and preview)
- Option to use embedded preview when scanning Camera RAW Images [Faster]
- Improvements & fixes to Image Preview window
- New list filters: Addded file type groupings & improved file filter editor
- Added .jpe file extension support
- New Criteria - Ignore duplicate groups within same folder (Duplicates in different folders only)
- Thumbnail mode now supports RAW Images (Uses embedded JPG)
- Keyboard shortcut for Find window: 'Find next' [CTRL-N]
- Selected rows now retained upon sorting list
- Added option to turn off duplicate list tooltips
- Added command line switch to skip loading of folders from profile [/nf]
- Bugfix - Removed extra comma on end of CSV export
- Bugfix - Bug loading 4.0.5 and earlier profiles into 4.1.0
- Bugfix - Current line moves to top of list after marking with Image Preview
- Bugfix - Image mode - 'Exact match' not working for RAW Images
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 4.1.0 (Nov 20, 2017)
- New comparison mode: Similar Audio
- View the Duplicate list by grouped and thumbnail views
- Unique mode improvements for drive/folder comparison projects
- Selection Assistant option: Work on unmarked groups only.
- Selection Assistant improvements for 'All but one in each group' (Utilize existing marks, prefer longer file names)
- Saved file filters can now be combined
- Improved checks to for initial folders mapping to the same location
- Duplicate folder list column widths saved
- Various other fixes
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 4.0.5 (May 29, 2017)
- Alternative delete method added (Non-windows shell based)
- Bugfix: Crash if criteria date less than 2038 or greater than 1901
- Bugfix: Incorrect saving of font option in certain locales (Strikethru issue)
- Bugfix: Crash on some systems due to application instance checking in .NET Framework
- Bugfix: Copyitem error when attempting to move/copy deleted files
- Various other minor fixes
- Improvements made to installer/uninstaller
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 4.0.4 (May 29, 2017)
- Image mode - 100% Exact pixels comparison mode added
- Image Preview - various improvements including selectable thumbnail size/ratio
- Overwrite/Rename option for Move/Copy function
- Improved 'Find in list' functionality : selectable search columns
- Improved layout for High-DPI/Large font/4K displays
- Improved group ordering
- Refresh list (check files) operation now background threaded
- Bugfix - Database not found when using network UNC based profile location
- Bufgix - Hard linking on read-only files leaves temp files
- Bufgix - slow down when cycling through files with Image Preview window open
- Bugfix - Removed group-related filters on unique tab
- Bugfix - List position changes when marking and current position >50000
- Other bugfixes
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 4.0.3 (May 29, 2017)
- Drive group view in path scan list
- Hash cache improvements
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 4.0.2 (May 29, 2017)
- Support for RAW camera image formats
- Support for High-DPI and large font displays
- Audio data only comparison mode
- Progress indicator when frontloading files to delete/move
- Bugfixes: Windows Vista crash, Windows 8/10 hardlinking, other minor fixes.
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 4.0.1 (May 29, 2017)
- Database issue fixes
- CSV import issue fixed
- Adding folders from command line issue resolved
- License issue fixes
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 4.0.0 (May 29, 2017)
- Updated GUI
- Find unique files functionality
- Match by same file extension
- Match by same folder name (full path or to a specified depth)
- Size matching tolerance
- Date matching tolerance
- Exclude filter can now work on folder names
- Flag input folder(s) as a Master - Only files which duplicate the ones in the Master will be listed
- Flag input folder(s) as Protected - you can't mark or remove from a protected folder
- Image Mode - Match by tags (Digitised dates, comments, ImageUniqueID, etc)
- Image Mode - Match by closest distance (for geotagged images)
- Audio Mode - Match by more tags including TrackNo, year, genre, comment, AmazonID, MusicBrainzID, AcoustID, etc
- Selection Assistant - Undo last selection
- "Search within list" feature
- Hash Caching - speeds up repeat searches
- Now uses the windows file engine for deletion, etc - gives more feedback and is much faster
- NET Framework 4.5 support
- Many other fixes and optimizations.
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 3.2.7 (Dec 18, 2015)
- Scroll lock key support in main list.
- User-definable database location via ini file
- File discovery speed improved (Esp. NAS/Network drive)
- Send license to program via installer (-register="00000-00000-00000-00000-000000" flag)
- Bugfix: Arithmetic overflow error during scan.
- Bugfix: Crash when moving mouse over list [Tooltip]
- Bugfix: Move image preview window on back screen if outside bounds
- Bugfix: Splash screen exception if system busy.
- Other minor fixes
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 3.2.6 (Jan 12, 2015)
- Program closedown speed improved.
- Bugfix: Scan complete dialog hidden behind main window
- Bugfix: Select by location bug when missing trailing backslash
- Other minor fixes
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 3.2.5 (Jan 12, 2015)
- New function to export Duplicate Folders list (from File menu)
- Updated keyboard shortcuts: Enter/Return to execute file, Menu key or Shift-F10 for context menu.
- Image viewer - window size/location is now saved.
- Image viewer - F11 toggles maximized window
- (Bugfix) Creating Hard links from locked files fails with temporary files left over.
- (Bugfix) Invalid (non-Windows) filename characters cause scan to halt.
- Other minor fixes
- Taiwanese Chinese language support
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 3.2.4 (May 12, 2014)
- Added button to delete custom file type filters
- Language and localization updates and fixes
- Other minor fixes
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 3.2.3 (Jan 30, 2014)
- Russian, Armenian language support
- Similar image comparison improved, including rotated images
- (Bugfix) Don't Scan against self - Image Mode issue - resolved.
- (Bugfix) Read-only files will now delete in non-recycle mode
- (Bugfix) SQL Logic Error while scanning in similar file mode - resolved.
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 3.2.2 (Jan 30, 2014)
- Displaying the results of the last scan on startup now optional
- Hard linking now available for non-exact duplicate files (e.g. Images, music). Use with care!
- Audio data content comparison performance improved
- Issues with Move/Copying files with long pathnames - resolved.
- Include .aac files in audio mode scan
- Image mode scan finding nothing on second scan (cache issue) - Fixed
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 3.2.1 (Sep 11, 2013)
- Italian language support updated
- [Scan Engine] Bugfix: Error adding file to SQL transaction (ignore file extensions option)
- [Scan Engine] Bugfix: Duplicate image scan returning non-duplicate images in some cases [64 bit only]
- [Misc] Bugfix: Export CSV Issue - (Null Error)
- [Duplicate Files View] Bugfix: Files view showing Display Error
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 3.2.0 (Sep 11, 2013)
- [Misc] 64 Bit Integration
- [Duplicate Folders View] Can now multi-select folders for Marking/Expansion in Duplicate Folders view
- [Selection Assistant] Fixed issues with Underscore character in 'Select by text' and filtering
- [Duplicate Folders View] 'Unmark folder' context option now provided
- [Duplicate Files View] Contextmenu – more keyboard shortcuts (ie F6 copy Path/name)
- [Duplicate Files View] Bugfix: Rename doesn't cancel when hitting esc/moving cells
- [Duplicate Files View] Bugfix: 'Rename' disappears when clicking in blank space
- [Criteria] Bugfix: Don't allow blanks in min/max filesize
- 'Refresh Folders' button now updates for removed folders/files
- Bugfix: Duplicate Folder detection improved
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 3.1.6 (Aug 22, 2013)
- Displays tooltips for truncated fields in list
- Sorting now clears selected rows
- Select by Location efficiency fixes
- Select by Location (from window) now preserves (unmarks) files within the selected folder/tree
- Installer "Start In" location changed to user folder
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 3.1.5 (Jul 16, 2013)
- Dutch language support updated
- Bugfix: Error saving/loading date based settings with some system setups
- Bugfix: Select by Text Pattern: Regex/Whole column option works again
- Bugfix: CSV Import fixes for importing from v3.0.0-3.0.9
- Bugfix: 'License Invalid' issue
- Bugfix: Zip Move/Copy fails on some files issue
- Bugfix: Zip scan-long filename popup
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 3.1.4 (Jul 16, 2013)
- Memory optimizations
- Now displays sizes in Terrabytes where appropriate
- 'Group 0' issues fixed
- Useful error message if problems with licensing library
- Ping noise on scan completion
- Selected tab colour desubtlerized
- Codebases of Free and Pro aligned
- bugfix '124' move file display popup removed
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 3.1.3 (Jul 16, 2013)
- Added 'Exclude Path' to right-click path selection menu
- New option to ignore file extension in same/similar filename criteria
- SHA-512 Hashing added
- 'View log file' added to View menu
- Bugfix: Settings save issue
- BugFix: Prevent zip files with long path names throwing error
- BugFix: Minor criteria display issue
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 3.1.2 (Jul 16, 2013)
- Installer and Executable now digitally signed
- Long path name (>260) support (file scanning - Standard mode only)
- Long path name support (delete *NOT Recycle - Recycler doesn't support long paths*)
- Long path name support (rename, copy, move)
- Efficiency fix - File checkbox
- Efficiency fix - 'Mark all selected'
- Efficiency fix - 'Mark by longest/shortest path name'
- Bugfix: Icon now shown for files with no extension
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 3.1.1 (Jul 16, 2013)
- Case sensitivity in filter/comparison fixes
- Efficiency tweaks
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 3.1.0 (Jul 16, 2013)
- Major engine update, now database driven.
- Session along with duplicate file/folder list and marks is retained upon exiting/starting the app
- Filter the list by Marked/not marked files and groups
- Filter the list by Path, group or filetype
- Duplicate folder tree has marked folders indicated - is synced with file list
- Columns in duplicate folder tree
- Hide/Show list columns (right click on header)
- File and folder icons shown in list
- Command line switches supported, for automation of scans. (See manual for commands)
- Various bugfixes and tweaks
- Brazil-Portuguese and Turkish language support added
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 3.0.9 (Jul 16, 2013)
- New 3.0 manual added, with contextual help buttons.
- Clickable folder navigation in Duplicate Folder files browser
- New keyboard Shortcuts: CTRL-A :Add Path, F1 Help
- Bugfix: List population error with ignored hardlinks
- Bugfix: 'Jump to containing' option visible on root nodes
- Bugfix: File deletion memory/performance adjustments
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 3.0.8 (Jul 16, 2013)
- 'Same Resolution' image comparison option
- Italian language added
- Bugfix: List population error
- Bugfix: Incorrect filetimes returned in list with some files.
- Bugfix: Other minor fixes.
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 3.0.7 (Jul 16, 2013)
- Dutch language support added
- Copy and Move files from Zip archives
- All file removal/change operations are now logged in the log file (when enabled)
- Option to limit number of Duplicate files found in a scan
- Thumbnails can be turned off in image viewer
- Bugfix: Deals more usefully with unhandled problems - Eg. Missing/damaged Windows Fonts
- Bugfix: Image viewer refresh + speed
- Bugfix: Displayed total scanned size inside zip files corrected
- Bugfix: Zip files in path list
- Bugfix: zip files are no longer shown in duplicate list if they are also being scanned internally
- Bugfix: Other general zip file handling fixes & messages
- Bugfix: Localization fix
- Bugfix: Listview memory efficiency
- Bugfix: Other minor fixes.
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 3.0.6 (Jul 16, 2013)
- Updated Image viewer - efficiency fixes and new 'Fit Image' behaviour
- Automatically (silently) check for updates on startup (can turn off in options)
- Installer checks for running process before upgrading
- Bugfix: Scan window minimize behavior
- Bugfix: "Ignore Hardlinks" option
- Bugfix: "Don't Follow Junctions/Mountpoints" option
- Bugfix: Error when deleting files from imported CSV list.
- Bugfix: Refresh button not dropping missing files correctly
- Bugfix: Undesirable behaviour fixed when using # and [ in Select by Text Pattern
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 3.0.5 (Jul 16, 2013)
- New context menu for path tree
- 'About' dialog now doesn't pop-up by default for new installs
- Search Criteria page can now scroll to allow for small displays
- Bugfix: Show large size folders int overflow issue in duplicate folder view
- Bugfix: 'Root' search folders now compared in duplicate folder view
- Bugfix: Image viewer: Image size in main picture doesn't update
- Bugfix: Min/Max file sizes - was ignoring values after comma
- Bugfix: Correct control scaling when using windows in large font mode
- Bugfix: Path tree node icons
- Bugfix: Incorrectly protecting paths like 'C:\Program Files (copy)'
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 3.0.0 (Jun 22, 2012)
- New interface, engine updates, selection assistant updates.
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 2.1.0 (Aug 29, 2011)
- Support for six more languages added
- List Marked count bugfix
- Will now run in Windows 2000, though audio-tag reading is disabled.
- Error loading column widths fixed.
- When Moving/Copying file it will rename upon collision rather than overwriting.
- Fixed missing localisation 'Include/Exclude'
- Engine update - Faster scanning of large datasets
- Fixed 'Overflow' issue during scanning of large datasets.
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 2.0.6 (May 10, 2011)
- Delete operations fixes (Will remove read-only, etc)
- Removal operations multi-threading
- Folder browser list now sorted alphabetically
- Other Bugfixes.
- Japanese language added
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 2.0.5 (May 10, 2011)
- Updated GUI multi-threading
- Localisation fixes
- Improved Date Modified/Created matching (ignores milliseconds)
- Pop-up error log for file removal processes
- Various Bugfixes
- 8 new Languages added
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 2.0.4 (Feb 22, 2011)
- Fully Unicode Compatible
- Exclude from search by pattern
- Move or Copy duplicate files
- Rename duplicate files
- Save document search types
- Match by Date Created/Modified
- Byte-by-Byte / SHA1 / MD5 hashing options
- Search between dates modifed or created
- Fuzzy matching on Filenames and Audio tags
- Read image tags
- Don’t follow Junctions/Mountpoints option
- Automatic row re-colouring on sort
- Edit list row colours/font
- New folder picker
- New Right click marking/unmarking options
- Drop selected /marked files from list
- Enhanced Import and Export (now includes marked state of row)
- Export selected rows or all rows
- Select by pattern on any column, with regular expression support
- Updated Selection assistant
- Selection assistant can be limited to selected range
- Select by Dates Created/Modified
- Quick Column Views - show/hide columns in pre-set combinations
- Portable settings file (no registry)
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 1.4.7 (Aug 30, 2010)
- Will not follow NTFS reparse points (Junctions and Mountpoints)
- Listview fill optimization
- Removed non-localized tooltips
- API filenames tweaks
- Turkish Language support +1 other.
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 1.4.6 (Aug 14, 2010)
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 1.4.5 (Apr 20, 2010)
- Fixed bug in CSV Import/Export
- Updated File type list
- Updated Splash
- Arabic language support added.
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 1.4.4 (Feb 25, 2010)
- Fixed bug in column sorting (hard links, song length, bit rate)
- Fixed bug in selection tool (select by bit rate)
- Updated file drag icon.
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 1.4.3 (Sep 5, 2009)
- 'Duplicate content detection now uses more accurate MD5 Hashing by default.
- Now supports M4A and M4P audio files (Apple iTunes/iPod)
- Delete/Move/Hardlink Progress Bar
- Delete/Move/Hardlink suppress system error pop-ups
- Progress bar when populating duplicate list
- Automatically Resizing Search path panes
- Added Select path button (was removed in 1.2)
- Now supports PNG, PCX and TGA image files in preview window
- Image preview window is cleared upon clicking on non-image file
- Look and feel adjustments, new icons
- Fixed bug that caused text to be blank if current language file moved/missing
- No longer uses ActiveX AudieGenie, uses a faster DLL version.
- Fixed filename overwrite bug
- Fixed group warning messagebox overflow
- Already deleted files are removed from list during delete operation, and no error is generated.
- CTRL-A to select all rows on duplicate list
- F5 will refresh the duplicate list and remove any moved/deleted or orphaned files from the list.
- Column re-order allowed on duplicate list
- Protects 32-bit (x86) Program Files folder on 64-bit system
- Image preview button toggles show/hide image preview window
- Scanning window stays hidden until ready to go.
- Select folder button localized tooltip
- Cancel during duplicate scan will display files matched so far
- Italian language support added.
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 1.4 Beta (Aug 22, 2009)
- Duplicate content detection now uses more accurate MD5 Hashing by default
- Now supports M4A and M4P audio files (itunes/ipod default)
- Delete/Move/Hardlink Progress Bar
- Delete/Move/Hardlink suppress system error pop-ups
- Progress bar when populating duplicate list
- Automatically Resizing Search path panes
- Added Select path button (was removed in 1.2)
- Now supports PNG, PCX and TGA image files in preview window
- Image preview window is cleared upon clicking on non-image file
- Look and feel adjustments, new icons
- Fixed bug that caused text to be blank if current language file moved/missing
- No longer uses ActiveX AudieGenie, uses a faster DLL version. Also means DC is portable on modern XP/Vista systems
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 1.3.1 (Jun 1, 2009)
- Image Viewer
- Move duplicates
- Create Hard links.
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 1.3.0 (Oct 31, 2008)
- Localized language support
- XP control Styles.
- Updated folder tree type interface
- Drag/drop folders from explorer
- Display/Ignore hardlinked files
- Un-hardlink files
- Export all files to CSV
- Rename files
- Invert Selection
- Select by master folder
- Date sort bug fixed
- Protect DLL/EXE files
- Remove empty folders
- Hide orphaned groups
- Two-colour scheme in dupe list
- Remember column widths in dupe list
- Confirm on exit
New in Duplicate Cleaner Free 1.2 (Apr 9, 2007)
- - Image Preview Window for JPG/BMP/GIF/ICO pictures
- - Move duplicate files to new folder
- - Create Hard Links to duplicate files
- - Select multiple items in list
- - Import CSV files
- - Minor bug fixes