NoClone

NoClone is a software tool which can be easily used in order to create more space on your hard disk, by removing all the similar and duplicate files, be they songs, movies, pictures, text documents or Outlook e-mails.

The installation process is fairly fast and uneventful, and after finalizing it, you are met with a minimal interface. It encompasses a few shortcut buttons, a menu bar and two panes to display search criteria and results.

This tool lets you search within a custom location on the hard drive, including subfolders, for all sorts of duplicates, including files with exactly the same content or with the same name. You can also include quite a large number of parameters, such as looking only for images, movies or songs, items larger than 1MB or inputting a date range between which files might have been modified.

The detected clones are displayed along with details such as path, name, size, date and duplicate group. From here, these items can be managed, by marking them and copying, cutting and pasting them to another location, as well as send them to the Recycle Bin or permanently delete them.

If you do not have enough time to finish organizing all these files, you can save the search session to the hard drive, as a NoClone file or in a CSV, XML or XLS format. Statistics pertaining to total duplicates found and disk space recovered can be brought up with just a click of the button.

Taking all of this into consideration, we can safely say that NoClone is an efficient piece of software that can help you get rid of the clutter on your PC. It is friendly to your system’s resources, has a relatively good response time, a user-friendly environment, and plenty parameters to tinker with.