Check for Redundancies?

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Ashton

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I have 5 HDs and some old CDs, I'm combining onto a new drive (no data loss, just consolidating) and I KNOW I have multiple copies of files on them because I dumped folders like "My Documents" into them when I reformatted and never checked them to see if the previous folder had the same ones.

Is there a good program that will go through and look for redundancies on a drive? I really don't want to have to go folder-by-folder and check manually (this is around 300gb of data to sift through)
 
If you just copy and paste the folders into one larger folder on the new drive wont it pop up saying this is the same file and ask you if you want to replace/overwite it?
 
You could do a date based comparison of the duplicates and only overwrite if the date of a new copy is newer than the existing one. That will probably accomplish what you want to do assuming your PC's clock was working properly and you want the latest versions of the files you backed up.

To do something like that I'd recommend something like SuperCopier 2 beta 1.9.
It's a file copy replacement for explorer. The shell integration doesn't work in Vista but you can still manually launch it. It's much more robust and handles copying large amounts of files (e.g. in excess of 100k) without running out of memory or other bad stuff, like the native Windows explorer copy does.

Just set the program's "default behavior" on handling existing files to "overwrite if newer" and just successively drag each individual disk to the same place.
 
@ Laznwork: Thank you! Looks like exactly what I want!

@ Alamone: great looking program, though shell integration isn't working (Xp Pro 64) Downloaded it to try and solve copy errors I'm getting

@ everyone: It's not that simple. I have multiple folders, all with unique names, that have, for example 5000 files in each of them, and of those 5000 files, 10 in each folder are duplicates. and these are nested in sub folders too. I'm going to probably spend an entire weekend or more sorting these folders out and deleting old stuff thats not nessisary (like previous versions of software installers)
 
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