Free deduplication software?

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oldpablo

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Title says it all really, I have been asked to restore some stuff from an old PC. The problem is that he has a ton of redundancy in a bad way, whenever he reinstalled or moved to a new drive he basically just moved stuff elsewhere and started new without going back through all the old data and moving it into the new spot to then be added to. He has a lot of different my document folders, my pictures, you name it. And they all look like each other but have a little more data in them till the next time he reinstalled or got a larger drive. What I'm hoping for is some kind of tool that will just sort through it all and give me the unique versions I can just grab. A visual deduplication if you will. Does such software exist in free form?
 
Do a search for doublekiller, very good program. For images I use another that actually compares pics and will find duplicates pretty accurately. You preview before you delete so you know its a duplicate. I forget the name of it but ill fi d it and let you know.
 
i would be very interested in the name of that program as well, my camera labels pics automatically,, and often names them the same after i clean the card out.
 
Hey guys, sorry its taken me so long. The program name is "Unique Filer" Its released as nagware, so every 10 pics you delete you have to simply click "No Thanks I want to stay free" but it is amazing on pictures, especially if you have a lot that are very similiar in names, etc. It actually "looks" at the pictures, and can find resized, cropped, or rotated, etc pictures that are duplicates. Now, be forewarned, about 1 of every 500 or so it does on average youll get 2 pictures it thinks are dupes that definetely arent, must be something in the way the program is scripted. Just look for it, if you cant find it let me know.
 
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