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What's new in Duplicate Files Search & Link 10.4.2

Mar 23, 2024
  • Fixed a small issue in UI.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 10.4.0 (Feb 23, 2024)

  • Added a new command "Select Files with the Most Hard Links as Link Targets".
  • Added the option "Automatically rename file if a file with same name already exists in the destination folder" in the file renaming dialog.
  • Added automatic updating of the folder tree when an (external) disk attached to or removed from the system.
  • Fixed the operation of the button "Show/Hide physical devices."
  • Fixed minor bugs.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 10.3.3 (Jan 24, 2024)

  • Fixed: The occupied disk space was incorrectly displayed for files larger than 4 GB.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 10.3.2 (Jan 18, 2024)

  • Fixed the issue: the result grid scrolled to the beginning after any file operation.
  • Fixed the filter selection dialog behavior - the selection by paths from the list did not work correctly if a path ends in slashes.
  • Improved behavior after a file deletion request when all files are selected in one or more groups.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 10.3.1 (Dec 26, 2023)

  • Fixed a bug - after replacing files with hard links, groups with hard- and symlinks in the grid were not shown automatically without repeated replace or rescan
  • Fixed - the size of the main window was not restored if the window's edge was at the edge of the screen
  • Added translation into Portuguese [Brazil]

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 10.3.0 (Dec 3, 2023)

  • Improved performance, fixed several minor bugs.
  • Added .NET 8.0 support.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 10.2.3 (May 6, 2023)

  • Fixed bug: Duplicate Searcher Launcher can't launch the standalone (portable) version 10.2.2.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 10.2.2 (Apr 30, 2023)

  • Fixed several minor issues found in UI.
  • Fixed a problem with running .NET 7.0 version under Windows 7 in administrator mode (the environment variables set to bypass the memory allocation problem for the .NET 7.0 process were not passed by running in administrator mode).

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 10.2.1 (Apr 3, 2023)

  • Fixed a bug: some of duplicate files are sometimes ignored.
  • Fixed an issue: some symbolic links are being incorrectly shown.
  • The command "Select All Files in '[selected folder]' and Sub-folders" is used in the context menu instead of "Select All Files in '[selected folder]'".

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 10.2.0 (Mar 29, 2023)

  • Improved performance on older CPUs, reduced CPU load when comparing files.
  • Fixed a performance issue when comparing several thousand files of the same size, the comparison speed has increased by several times.
  • Fixed some found issues in the UI.
  • Fixed and improved keyboard navigation through the grid of identical files, also added support for keyboard shortcuts Ctrl-Up/Ctrl-Down for jumping between groups of files.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 10.1.4 (Feb 27, 2023)

  • Fixed issue: the message "New version 10.1.3 available for download" is shown even if 10.1.3 already installed.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 10.1.3 (Feb 25, 2023)

  • Fixed issue: command button "Replace Files With Hard Links" is available for files on file system FAT32.
  • Updated Hungarian translation.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 10.1.2 (Jan 12, 2023)

  • Improved preformance.
  • Improved sorting by size.
  • Replaced code signing certificated with the new one (the preivous was the test one and it is not valid anymore).

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 10.1.1 (Jan 3, 2023)

  • The installer, all *.exe and *.dlls are now signed with a trusted code signed cerificate. Therefore there is no "unknown publisher" warning anymore by running Duplicate Searcher.
  • The file access rights compatibility check during replacing files with hard links is now avalaible without running as administrator.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 10.1.0 (Jan 2, 2023)

  • Added new column Extension with filtering and sorting support.
  • Fixed minor bugs.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 10.0.5 (Dec 20, 2022)

  • Fixed: the main menu items did not fit into the window and being hidden when the window width was decreased or when the medium and large fonts were selected in the settings.
  • Fixed: some visual issues of the filter panel.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 10.0.4 (Dec 13, 2022)

  • A work-around has been implemented in the launcher to fix the problem with .NET 7.0 high memory allocation on 64-bit Windows 7.
  • It sets environment variables to values that disable new technologies that cause problems on 64-bit Windows 7. Duplicate Searcher should now work without problems if it runs on 64-bit Windows 7 with .NET 7.0 installed.
  • Unfortunately, Microsoft refused to support and fix .NET 7.0 bugs in Windows 7, so make your decision to use .NET 7.0 with 64-bit Windows 7, given the missing support, missing bugfixes, and the given problem I described.
  • - Added additional checks into the launcher if needed components are installed in Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 10.0.3 (Dec 9, 2022)

  • The problem with high .NET 7.0 memory allocation on Windows 7 does not affect Windows 7 32-bit and 32-bit mode on Windows 7 64-bit, so running the 32-bit DuplicateSearcherNet7.x86.exe assembly for .NET 7.0 is enabled without restrictions in this version on 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 7.
  • Please let me know if you have high memory allocation running DuplicateSearcherNet7.x64.exe on Windows 8 etc.
  • Fixed slight slowdown when comparing media files with "Ignore difference in metadata..." option enabled.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 10.0.2 (Dec 9, 2022)

  • Build DuplicateSearcherNet7.x64.exe for .NET 7.0 allocates a lot of memory at startup for unknown reasons.
  • Until the problem is found and fixed, the launch of DuplicateSearcherNet7.x64.exe for .NET 7.0 is disabled in the DuplicateSearcher.Launcher.exe on Windows 7. The build for .NET 6.0 or .NET Framework 4.7.2 will be run instead. Windows 7 users please use executable files for .NET 6.0 (in the net6.0 folder) or for .NET Framework 4.7.2 (in the netfx folder). They work fast too.
  • Fixed a bug in the DuplicateSearcher.Launcher.exe, which could not find the file DuplicateSearcherNetFramework.exe by users who do not have .NET 6.0 or .NET 7.0 installed.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 10.0.0 (Dec 7, 2022)

  • Added build for new .NET 7.0 platform.
  • Slightly improved performance.
  • Fixed minor bugs.
  • Added automatic profiles for audio, video and image files.
  • Added simple media tags preview window.
  • New commands that allow you to select immediately target files for hard links without first selection files that should be replaced with hard links.
  • Returned possibility to select files as hard link target for mapped network drives, formatted to Linux EXT2,3,4. In version 9.0 it was not possible for some NAS-drives because they don't report correctly to Windows if hard links are supported by them.
  • Simple scripting support.
  • Changed files and directory structure to separate binary exe and dll files for platforms .NET Framework 4.7.2, .NET 6.0 and .NET 7.0.
  • For portable/standalone version users - please extract files in a new folder, do not mix with files from previous versions.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 9.0.5 (Oct 28, 2022)

  • Fixed an error caused the unhandled exception if the file IncompressibleFiles.txt is missing in the application's folder.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 9.0.4 (Oct 26, 2022)

  • Fixed several errors causing unhandled exceptions.
  • Fixed problem in DuplicateSearcherNetFramework.exe for .Net Framework: keyfiles were not loaded, some menu items were missing.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 9.0.3 (Sep 18, 2022)

  • Fixed issue - the application shows an error and don't work, if .NET Framework 2.0/3.5 was not installed yet on a fresh system. This dependency on .NET Framework 2.0/3.5 is removed.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 9.0.2 (Sep 11, 2022)

  • Updated Polish and Chinese language files.
  • Fixed issues with auto-update language files.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 9.0.1 (Sep 8, 2022)

  • Updated Polish and Chinese language files.
  • Fixed issues with auto-update language files.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 9.0.0 (Sep 5, 2022)

  • Added the possibility of additional grouping of files by disk, folder and file name.
  • Automatic selection of a new file for hard links was implemented when replacing more than 1023 files with hard links (NTFS file system has the limit of 1024 hard links per file).
  • Added support for replacing symbolic links with hard links.
  • Added the ability to continue the search with new settings and append the newly found duplicates to the existing files.
  • Increased the file comparing speed in different scenarios.
  • When launching the .NET 6.0 version, the program now will also automatically receive an additional speed boost on modern processors with AVX and SHA256 hardware acceleration support.
  • Also solved performance problems in some search scenarios with a large amount of found files.
  • Added the ability to manually mark disks/volumes as SSD, it speeds up the search on mounted virtual hard disks, VeraCrypt volumes, etc. physically located on SSD.
  • Added support of hard and symbolic links on the ReFS file system (but not tested yet).
  • Added preventing automatic going into sleep or hibernation due to user inactivity by long running duplicate search.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 8.0.10 (Aug 6, 2022)

  • Fixed crash by comparing certain combination of many small files.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 8.0.9 (May 8, 2022)

  • Fixed some minor bugs.
  • Added Hungarian translation.
  • Added support slash '/' as folder separator in paths for scanning passed via the command line, i.e. Unix style (for example "e:/Photo/Photo " instead of "e:PhotoPhoto").
  • Added new DuplicateSearcher.Launcher.exe to automatically run the best suitable version depend on installed .NET runtime (6.0, 5.0 or 4.8) and system architecture (32 or 64 bit).
  • I recommend to install the latest .NET 6.0 for the best performance and stability (https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/6.0/runtime).

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 8.0.8 (Dec 6, 2021)

  • Less CPU load and better performance when multiprocessing duplicate search on SSD on some configurations.
  • Fixed found minor bug caused error message on some systems.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 8.0.7 (Dec 2, 2021)

  • Fixed a minor bug.
  • Added new portable package for new .NET 6 platform (please download it separately on my web site).

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 8.0.6 (Oct 27, 2021)

  • Fixed broken translations some menu items with ellipsis at the end.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 8.0.5 (Oct 27, 2021)

  • Fixed the error System.BadImageFormatException by starting the application on some systems.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 8.0.4 (Oct 24, 2021)

  • Significantly improved performance when comparing thousands of small files of the same size.
  • Fixed problem with incorrect window scaling in .NET 5 version (DuplicateSearcherCore.exe) when selecting text scale of 150% or higher on Windows 10.
  • Fixed problem with long-term "freezing" of the user interface after moving a very large amount of files to another disk.
  • Added a 32-bit version of DuplicateSearcherCore.exe for the .NET 5 platform (DuplicateSearcherCore.x86.exe), to run on 32-bit Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 versions.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 8.0.3 (May 24, 2021)

  • Fixed a bug - identical video files larger than 2 GB were not found when the "Partial comparison of large video files" option was enabled.
  • Minor improvements and bug fixes.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 8.0.2 (Apr 17, 2021)

  • Fixed the issue with the interface "freezing" for a long time by starting the operation of deleting a large amount of files.
  • Fixed incorrect search in DuplicateSearcherCore.exe (for .NET 5) due to the incorrect implementation of some functions in .NET 5.
  • Implemented uniform file sorting order in versions DuplicateSearcher.exe (for .NET 4.7.2+) and DuplicateSearcherCore.exe (for .NET 5).

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 8.0.1 (Apr 12, 2021)

  • Added new option "Partial comparison of large video files". When enabled, large video files (from 250 MB) are compared partially in different parts (~4 MB every 100 MB). This option allows you to estimate quickly if the video files are the most likely identical.
  • Added an estimation of the time remaining to complete long running operations (scanning and others).
  • Added the new column "Files", which allows you to sort file groups by the number of files in them.
  • Added the context menu opening by the right click on the table header row, which allows you to hide unnecessary columns.
  • The dialog box of the "Filtered selection" command has been redesigned, the selection has been simplified, and the "Invert Selection" operation has been added.
  • Fixed several bugs found in the previous version.
  • Reduced memory usage during searching duplicates.
  • Improved scanning performance by several percent.
  • The new application DuplicateSearcherCore.exe built for .NET 5.0 platform is back. Please update first .NET Desktop Runtime to version 5.0.4 or higher to run it. Please let me know if you encounter any new problems using DuplicateSearcherCore.exe for .NET 5.0.
  • If you like the application, please do consider to thank to support my motivation to develop it further!

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 7.0.7 (Jan 15, 2021)

  • Fixed found issues.
  • Fixed bug: saved scan results couldn't be loaded in some circumstances.
  • The new application DuplicateSearcherCore.exe for .NET 5.0, which has been added since version 7.0.6, is temporarily excluded due to GDI resource leak found in some graphic functions provided by .NET 5.0.
  • The DuplicateSearcherCore.exe for .NET 5.0 will be build again after .NET 5.0 developers release the new fixed version.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 7.0.6 (Dec 19, 2020)

  • Fixed minor bugs.
  • People who use portable version can try the new application DuplicateSearcherCore.exe, adapted and compiled to use the newest platform .NET Desktop Runtime 5.0.
  • .NET 5.0 includes performance improvements, therefore the application DuplicateSearcherCore.exe should run faster than standard DuplicateSearcher.exe for .NET Framework 4.7.2.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 7.0.5 (Oct 24, 2020)

  • Bugfixing: missing directory icons and slow performance after repeated search.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 7.0.4 (Sep 21, 2020)

  • Fixed GDI+ exceptions caused application to crash after large amount of files were scanned. The GDI+ errors caused by Windows limitations on the number of file icons which can be created in memory simultaneously.
  • Fixed OutOfMemoryException if error output panel contains too much errors. Maximum error count limited to 1000.
  • Added output error info about symbolic links pointing to non-existing files (broken links).
  • Added Spain (Colombia) language translation (thanks to Carlos AndrĂ©s Medina Rivera!).

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 7.0.3 (Sep 8, 2020)

  • Improved file symlinks detection. Previous versions skipped symlinks to single files without duplicates.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 7.0.2 (Sep 7, 2020)

  • Fixed: the logging for completed file operations was broken.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 7.0.1 (Sep 7, 2020)

  • Fixed unhandled GDI+ exceptions caused by damaged file icons at some users.
  • I made visible the list of selected paths for search duplicates under the folder tree in the Start Search dialog for better overview. Also added separated "Select All" and "Unselect All" tool buttons for the folder tree.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 7.0.0 (Jul 28, 2020)

  • Added support searching for audio, video and image (only .jpg) files with the same binary media content but different metadata and media tags.
  • Added support launching customer external cmd-files and tools (for example Beyond Compare) for selected files.
  • Added the new command "Copy Selected Lines To Clipboard in .csv-format".

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 6.0.2 (Jun 7, 2020)

  • Fixed bug: false positives by comparin .mp3 files if option "Ignore ID3-tag differences for MP3 files" is enabled.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 6.0.1 (Jun 5, 2020)

  • Fixed bug disallowed to create symlinks to files located on another disks (volumes).

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 6.0.0 (Jun 3, 2020)

  • Several times better performance by simultaneous search for duplicates on several independent physical drives
  • Several times better performance by search for duplicates on SSDs (e.g. 3-4 times on SATA-SSD by scanning using 4 threads)
  • SSDs are being recognized automatically
  • Drive letters (volumes) are grouped in folder tree by physical drives which they belong to
  • Added support for hard links and symbolic links in EXT2/EXT3/EXT4 file systems (I've tested it only with Ext2Fsd-driver for Windows https://www.ext2fsd.com/ )
  • Implemented search for duplicates in ZIP-archives. In order to search in ZIP-archive it should be added under "Archive" node in the folder
  • tree. File operations with files in ZIP-archive (rename, delete etc) are not supported
  • Better ID3-tags recognition for MP3-files. More MP3-files with identical content can be recognised in some cases
  • Added possibility to assign custom keyboard shortcuts
  • Added possibility to move files including folder structure
  • Several small fixes and improvements
  • Windows XP: this version was build for .NET Framework 4.7.2 and above, which has more features and better performance, but it doesn't support Windows XP

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 5.2.7 (Apr 26, 2020)

  • Fixed bug caused NullReferenceException in the "Move files" dialog.
  • Fixed bug caused the creation of excess Settings subfolder during the update of the installed version via automatic update function.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 5.2.6 (Mar 24, 2020)

  • Added skipping files in the OneDrive folder that physically aren't on the local computer (files in the cloud).
  • Files in the cloud are now excluded from search by default, but if you like to include cloud files to search for duplicates and let OneDrive download them to your computer for comparison, you can set SkipFilesInCloud="0" in the Profile settings in the file settings.xml.
  • It's just a quick fix. The checkbox in the UI for the setting will be added in a future version.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 5.2.5 (Feb 29, 2020)

  • Fixed a small issue.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 5.2.4 (Feb 16, 2020)

  • Fixed crashes on some system configurations caused by non-existing fonts.
  • Fixed found UI problems caused by the selected medium or large font size.
  • Fixed found some rare crashes on some user configurations.
  • Added key without expiration date for non-commercial use.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 5.2.3 (Dec 7, 2019)

  • Fixed some small issues.
  • Improved stability.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 5.2.2 (Oct 18, 2019)

  • Fixed Windows 10 specific issue - 0 "Size on the disk" for some system files in the WindowsApps folder.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 5.2.1 (Oct 9, 2019)

  • Fixed several found issues, caused crashes.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 5.2 (Sep 1, 2019)

  • Added new button "Show only groups containing selected files" on the side toolbar.
  • Added displaying of current disk read speed during file comparison.
  • Fixed a couple of unhandled exceptions that could cause crashes.
  • Minor performance improvement.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 5.1.9 (Aug 14, 2019)

  • Fixed crash by scanning files in network folders.
  • Fixed crash by scanning mp3-files with unusual ID3v2 tags when the option "Ignore ID3-tag differences for MP3 files" is enabled.
  • Fixed (or better to say got around) the reported error by opening system Save File Dialog on some systems (the most probably some system components are missing there).
  • Added Chinese (Simplified) translation.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 5.1.7 (Aug 12, 2019)

  • Fixed another critical bug: the app freezes when user clicks click the "Start search" button if the previous search was in network folders.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 5.1.6 (Aug 9, 2019)

  • Fixed several bugs leading to a crash of the application.
  • Thanks to the people who sent me the reports!
  • Fixed functionality "Ignore ID3-tag differences for MP3 files". It finds much more MP3 files now with differences in ID3 tags only.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 5.1.5 (Jul 24, 2019)

  • Found and fixed two problems that sometimes led to occasional program crashes in some circumstances.
  • One problem is a bug in the .Net Framework.
  • This version should still run under Windows XP.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 5.1.4 (Jul 17, 2019)

  • Fixed bug: "Move files" operation didn't work.
  • Search settings are now saved automatically even if the Search dialog was closed by Cancel button or Esc.
  • Dll-files repacked into one .exe-file to decrease files count for portable version.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 5.1.3 (Jun 10, 2019)

  • Decreased CPU load by scanning large amount of files.
  • Fixed unhandled exception if added network path isn't available anymore.
  • Fixed bug with limiting symlinks count for registered users.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 5.1.2 (Apr 21, 2019)

  • Fixed broken search in network folders

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 5.1.1 (Apr 9, 2019)

  • Fixed: freed up space summary was incorrectly cleared by some UI operations
  • Updated French translation. Thanks to Colok!
  • Attention Windows XP users: this version is likely to be the latest, compiled for .NET 4.0, and therefore supports Windows XP.
  • I plan to build new versions with support for new technologies and features of .NET 4.6.2+ (and .NET Core 3.0) which are not supported in WinXP.
  • But in case of finding critical errors in this version, the bug fixes of this version for .NET 4.0 will be made.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 5.1.0 (Apr 3, 2019)

  • Fixed a bug with the inability to filter files from the list by name, which appeared in the previous version.
  • Fixed several minor bugs.
  • Added the ability to sort within groups by file names, folders, number of fragments, hard links and file modification date.
  • Added display of extended statistics on found duplicates, free disk space and the number of deleted and replaced files in the status bar.
  • Added the ability to specify the path to search for files as a text list of paths.
  • Added ability to copy to the clipboard the path of the file folders.
  • Increased speed rendering of the list of duplicate files.
  • Several commands were renamed.
  • Attention Windows XP users: this version is likely to be the latest, compiled for .NET 4.0, and therefore supports Windows XP.
  • I plan to build new versions with support for new technologies and features of .NET 4.7.2 (and .NET Core 3.0) which are not supported in WinXP.
  • But in case of finding critical errors in this version, the bug fixes of this version for .NET 4.0 will be made.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 5.0.3 (Feb 16, 2019)

  • Hotfix: fixed crash by search file names via "Find in List…".
  • Added: German language.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 5.0.1 (Feb 16, 2019)

  • Updated a tooltip

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 5.0 (Feb 16, 2019)

  • Added support for file symbolic links (search, display and creation).
  • Fixed several found issues and bugs.
  • Several performance improvments. In some complicated cases (e.g. by comparing many files of the same size) the search can be several times faster!

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 4.3 (Apr 29, 2016)

  • Fixed bug - search didn't work on 32-bit Windows versions.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 4.2 (Apr 21, 2016)

  • Added support for patterns in file name and file path filters of result grid. You can use the list of patterns separated by '|' (or ';'), for example: 'DSC*.JPG | IMG*.JPG' etc.
  • Added the new option to skip NTFS-compression for incompressible and poorly compressible files when you use 'Compress' command. It reduces file fragmentation on HDDs and wearing on SSDs.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 4.1.1 (Feb 16, 2016)

  • Fixed bug: option "Automatically Check For Updates" does not work in versions 4.0 and 4.1.
  • The NTFS-compression operation ignores small files (up to 4 KB).

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 4.1 (Feb 6, 2016)

  • Significantly improved hard links comparing performance.
  • Implemented Windows Explorer context menu integration (only by installation, not supported in portable version). The search of duplicate files can be started from Windows Explorer context menu on selected folders or discs.
  • Added support of the new optional command-line parameters to start search duplicates from command line.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 4.0 (Dec 15, 2015)

  • Developed to target the Microsoft .NET Framework 4. It means better performance and no need to install .Net 3.5 on Win 10 and Win 8.1
  • Added support of user-defined profiles to search files by different criteria
  • Added filters row in the result list to filter files by different criteria
  • Fixed several found small issues
  • Portable version saves settings in the application's subfolder now
  • "Start As Administrator" is disabled by default

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 3.0.2.50301 (Sep 11, 2015)

  • Updated license file

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 3.0.1.50301 (Mar 2, 2015)

  • Fixed several minor UI bugs.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 3.0.0.50111 (Jan 13, 2015)

  • Fixed several small bugs.
  • Added preview of image files in hits on mouse hover.
  • Added displaying of extendended properties of media files in hits on mouse hover.
  • Added some new commands to select files.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 2.2.6.40520 (May 21, 2014)

  • Added new search option "Search only for duplicates with the same file names"
  • Fixed bug: the operation "Move Files To Specified Folder" didn't work properly

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 2.2.3.40131 (Feb 1, 2014)

  • Added possibility to increase font size
  • Minor improvement

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 2.2.1.31019 (Oct 21, 2013)

  • Fixed bug: Include/Exclude wildcards did not always work corretly by the file search

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 2.2.0.31001 (Oct 2, 2013)

  • Added logging for successfully completed file operations.
  • Added option to delete empty folders after file deletion.
  • Added French translation.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 2.1.3.30727 (Jul 27, 2013)

  • Fixed bug: error message by expanding disc C: in the "Select folders to scan" window.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 2.1.2.30716 (Jul 17, 2013)

  • Fixed bug: file list was not updated after files were deleted to Recycle Bin.
  • Added: Duplicate Searcher prevents delete operation if all files were checked for deletion.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 2.1.0.30303 (Mar 6, 2013)

  • Implemented feature: you can add network folders and use them to scan for duplicates.
  • Implemented the new version-history and update dialog.
  • Fixed casual crash by clicking on "Send Feedback or Bug Report" menu item if The Bat! app is installed.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 2.0.3.30128 (Jan 30, 2013)

  • Resolved problem: dialog "Incompatible file permissions" was being opened and updated very slowly in some cases.
  • Status window is now shown by loading result files when file information is being updated.
  • The sizes of the found and checked files in status bar dispay the real disc space used by files (not just the sums of file sizes as it was before).

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 2.0.2.21202 (Dec 4, 2012)

  • Improved files loading/updating speed when loading scanning results from the file.
  • Added support for loading result files via command line and Drag&Drop.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 2.0.1.21125 (Nov 29, 2012)

  • Added the long path support. The DS application can now correctly get access to files and folders with the path longer than 260 characters.
  • Added the support of Save/Load results command.
  • Improved Windows 8 support.
  • Added support for alternate NTFS-streams by comparing file contents.
  • Improved the performance of processing and comparing of the small files.
  • Added some new check/uncheck commands.
  • Added some tooltips with detailed command descriptions.
  • Added support for checking NTFS-permissions compatibility for the files being replaced by hard links.
  • Added experimental option to ignore differences in MP3-files metadata (ID3-tags) and compare the music content only. This option allows to find MP3-files with identical music content, but different ID3-tags.
  • Fixed some small bugs.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 1.6.5.1 (Nov 8, 2010)

  • Fixed small resizing problem in "Select folders to scan" dialog.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 1.6.5 (Nov 8, 2010)

  • Fixed bug: Checkbox "Hide files if path contains symbolic link" does not work correctly in version 1.6.4
  • Text "Reparced path" was replaced with "Real path" to be more understandable for users.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 1.6.4 (Aug 24, 2010)

  • Fixed some small bugs

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 1.6.3 (Feb 11, 2010)

  • Fixed small bug: the option "Automatically Check For Updates" was always on after apllication restarted.
  • Added: the application requests administrator rights on Windows Vista and Windows 7.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 1.6.2 (Feb 11, 2010)

  • Fixed bug: the apllication hangs when user presses "Check All" in Find in List dialog
  • Added: Windows 7 taskbar extensions support
  • Some minor fixes

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 1.6.1 (Nov 17, 2009)

  • Fixed: link controls were not updated by checking files from "Find in List" dialog.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 1.6.0 (Nov 16, 2009)

  • Fixed: Some small bugs.
  • Added: New commands:
  • "Exclude Checked Files From the List",
  • "Check All Files in This Folder"
  • "Uncheck All Files in This Folder"
  • "Find in List".
  • Added: Buttons to hide optical, removable and network drives in folder tree.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 1.5.1 (Nov 16, 2009)

  • Fixed: Commands "Collaps All" and "Expand All" did not work in version 1.5.
  • Added: Japanese language

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 1.5.0 (Oct 15, 2009)

  • Fixed: the application did not work on Win64 systems.
  • Fixed: Significantly improved performance and decreased memory consumption of application by work with huge list of found files.
  • Added: the application automatically updates result list, when files deleted or modified by external applications.
  • Fixed: Some small bugs.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 1.5.0 (Oct 15, 2009)

  • Fixed: the application did not work on Win64 systems.
  • Fixed: Significantly improved performance and decreased memory consumption of application by work with huge list of found files.
  • Added: the application automatically updates result list, when files deleted or modified by external applications.
  • Fixed: Some small bugs.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 1.4.3 (Jul 3, 2009)

  • Added: Context menu commands "Check All" and "Uncheck All" to Select folder dialog
  • Added: New command "Uncheck Other NTFS-links If Any Is Unchecked". This command allow to make unchecked whole group of hard and soft NTFS-links to the file in order to use this file as a target for new hard links.
  • Fixed: A crush when user clicks "Hide groups without real duplicates" checkboxs and emtpy list must be shown.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 1.4.2 (May 7, 2009)

  • Fixed: Some small interface-related bugs.

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 1.4.1 (Apr 27, 2009)

  • Added: Shortcuts for commands
  • Added: New search option "Search only NTFS-links to the same files"

New in Duplicate Files Search & Link 1.4 (Mar 9, 2009)

  • Added: Progress window to indicate process of deleting, replacing with hard links and detaching hard links.
  • Added: Application can now automatically check for updates.
  • Some internal code improvements.