FindDuplicate

Working with files of the same formats as your main resource for projects leaves a high chance that duplicates get created on your computer. Needless to say that one file might not be a problem, but you can end up with a lot of disk space occupied for no reason on the long run. This is exactly where Find Duplicate comes in handy.

One cool thing about it is that you can take advantage of its features from the moment it reaches your computer because there’s no setup involved to make it work. This also means that it can easily be carried around on a thumb drive in case you need to use it on other computers. It doesn’t leave any traces during runtime and doesn’t modify registry entries.

The visual design is built so you don’t have a difficult time accommodating. All functions required to define the operation and apply filters are found in an intuitive toolbar, while the rest of the space enlists all detected files in a table with column headers for name and path.

The application scans all files inside a directory of your choice, as well as its subfolders. Loading it needs to be done through the browse dialog. Before initiating the process, it’s good to pay attention to the extension field, which by default is set to only identify MP3 files, but can easily be changed to anything of interest.

You can choose to only display duplicate files, or show all of them. When done, you’re shown the total number of scanned files, as well as a number of duplicates. Selecting items of interest is done through keyboard hotkeys, and hitting the Delete button removes them from your computer.

Taking everything into consideration, we can state that FindDuplicate is a reliable application if you want to scan a specific directory for particular file formats to check whether or not there are duplicates. The process is easy to define, while controls to select and remove items are pretty intuitive.