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Review: AllDup is a free and flexible way get rid of duplicate files |
June 12, 2013
Duplicate file finders can strip your hard drive of unnecessary clutter. In recent months, I've tested several duplicate file finders, including the free Auslogics Duplicate File Finder, the $30 Ashisoft Duplicate Finder, and the $40 Webminds Easy Duplicate File Finder. The free AllDup is yet another way to get this task done, and according to its website, is a flexible and quick to do so.
Setting up an AllDup scan is relatively simple, with many options and filters to choose from.
According to my tests, AllDup 3.4.18 truly is quick: It scanned my entire hard drive in well under a minute, finding 316GB of duplicates of all kinds. Althhough my current hard drive only contains around 50GB of data, the scan time was still impressive. Naturally, scan results depend on your chosen scan settings, and there are many to choose from with AllDup. The product's interface includes buttons such as File Filter, Search Criteria, Search Options, and Source Folders, each offering a different set of scan preferences you can control.
Scan settings for AllDup are very flexible: You can scan for duplicates by name, extension, size, content, creation date, and other criteria, filter the scan by file type, search inside archive files such as ZIP and RAR, and exclude files of a certain size, to only name a few. Having included so many different settings to play with, AllDup takes into account the fact that you might not want to set all these very often. The Profiles button lets you create and save different scan profiles, so you can easily switch between your different scan settings.
Before we get into the most interesting part, the scan results, there are several more features worth mentioning. You can set AllDup to log any and all activities, in case you want to go back and remember what you found, what actions you took, and what errors the program returned. You can also set up an external comparison program to compare the contents of files, or set Microsoft Word to compare the contents of DOC, DOCX, RTF, and TXT files. It's also possible to add AllDup to the Windows Explorer context menu, for a quick duplicate scan inside a specific folder.
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