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Araxis Find Duplicate Files 2012.370
Find, manage files that have duplicate content regardless of name. Demo ($14.99)
Araxis Find Duplicate Files allows you to de-clutter your hard disk by finding, viewing and managing files with duplicate content, whatever they're named. Free 7-day trial.
What's New
Version 2011.200:
- Mac OS X 10.7 Lion is now supported (tested with Developer Preview 4 + update). This replaces support for Mac OS X Leopard. Customers using Leopard may, of course, continue to use older releases of FDF. [I12678]
- The Using Araxis Find Duplicate Files help topic now recommends against scanning your entire system drive, but suggests instead that specific folders (for example, those containing documents or images) be scanned. Although Find Duplicate Files is highly optimized to scan folders quickly, including unnecessary folders can significantly increase the time it takes to generate results. Scanning the entire system drive also risks including essential system or application files in the results, which you might then accidentally delete. [I12568]
- When manually selecting files in the Items found in the last scan table, the corresponding files will now also be pre-selected in the preview pane. (Note that changing the selection in the preview pane continues not to affect the selection in the found items table.) [I12665]
- The FDF application bundle has been renamed to ‘Araxis Find Duplicate Files’ from ‘Find Duplicate Files’. Copying this release to your Applications folder will not therefore replace an older release. You may therefore wish to move the older release to the Trash. [I12642]
- Filenames are no longer overly abbreviated in the preview pane. [I12662]
- The highlight colour of selected items in the preview pane now changes depending upon whether the preview pane has input focus. [I12664]
- Preview thumbnails are now centred rather than bottom-aligned in their containing space. Filenames are highlighted with the system highlight colour specified in the Mac OS X System Preferences. The background colour for selected item icons now matches that used in Finder (typically a light grey). [I12649]
- The Folders to be scanned table can now be resized down to just two rows. This allows more room for the items found table and preview pane on small displays. [I12650]
- The preview pane no longer shows vertical scrollbars when they are not needed. [I12657]
- Selected items in the preview pane no longer have their tops truncated when they are scrolled out of, and then back into, view. [I12691]
- The application window is now displayed upon startup on Lion DP4 + update, even when FDF had been download with Safari. [I12745]
- The Process Files facility now works correctly on Lion (DP4 + update) when launching a sandboxed application such as Mac OS X Preview. [I12634]
- Saved folder sets can now be opened on Lion DP4 + update. This change has necessitated changing the extension of saved folder sets from .fdf to .findduplicatefiles. Rename any existing .fdf files accordingly to use them with this release of FDF. [I12624]
- The FDF application bundle .plist file now correctly identifies the version of the application. This should improve compatibility with certain third-party services such as MacUpdate. [I12553]
- FDF application window captions now include the name of the application. [I10962]
- The small circular panel resize thumbs no longer appear to be slightly blurry at certain window widths. [I12681]
- The major version number of FDF is now 2011, to indicate the year of release. [I12342]
- The link in the online help to Apple’s list of System-Declared Uniform Type Identifiers (UTIs) has been updated. [I12146]
- A typographical error in the help has been addressed. [I12012]
Version 2011.200:
- Mac OS X 10.7 Lion is now supported (tested with Developer Preview 4 + update). This replaces support for Mac OS X Leopard. Customers using Leopard may, of course, continue to use older releases of FDF. [I12678]
- The Using Araxis Find Duplicate Files help topic now recommends against scanning your entire system drive, but suggests instead that specific folders (for example, more...
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Araxis Find Duplic... User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:9,793 |
| Version Downloads:191 |
| Type:Utilities : File Management |
| License:Demo |
| Date:09 Feb 2012 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price: $14.99 |
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Araxis Find Duplicate Files allows you to de-clutter your hard disk by finding, viewing and managing files with duplicate content, whatever they're named. Free 7-day trial.
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Bob.jacobson reviewed on 02 Jan 2012
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Across_fan reviewed on 22 Jul 2011
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*When the filesystem root (/) is in the list of folders to be scanned, FDF will no longer scan /Volumes and /dev. To scan a mounted volume, add it to the list of folders to be scanned. [I11815]
*It now takes much less time to save a large set of scan results, and to open such previously saved results. As a result of this change, scan results saved with this version of FDF cannot be opened by earlier versions of FDF. [I12045]
*The FDF application icon is in the new Araxis product family style. [I11883, I11905]
*The serial number support expiry notification will now appear briefly whenever the application starts, until it is expressly dismissed. Previously, it appeared only once every 30 days and was therefore easy to miss. [I11475]
*The notification messages that appear in the bottom left of the screen now show for slightly longer than before. [I12057]
*The alignment of a check box on the Preferences… > Notifications page has been corrected. [I12062]
*A typographical error has been fixed in the online help. [I11954]
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Pecosbill reviewed on 05 Aug 2010
The single focus of this app is to find duplicate files. It found many for me, but alas, no count is shown on the GUI. It*seemed* to run quickly but typically you'll have to walk away while any similar app runs.
The biggest problem I found is it does not clearly display the duplicates! Currently, it is showing me two music files side-by-side that it considers dupes. Unlike the rest of the files, it is only showing one row in the list for each of the two dupes. If I click on that one row, two files appear in the bottom section. Very confusing and makes me wonder if I can trust it. All the other dupe pairs+ have multiple rows. It's showing a single music file in a row later. This concerns me when the removal button is called "Delete Selected Items". For that reason, I did not test the delete function. If nothing else, the Location column has to reflect the different pathing for each of the files.
I've been trying to stick to only apps that use SHA1 (which you can test using the terminal command:
openssl dgst -sha1 fullfilepath-use-drag-and-drop
I'm not sure if this app uses SHA1 or not. It does show a hash (like you'd get from a dgst) in a column. This could be md5 which has been proven to be unreliable (see Security Now podcast). Others use SHA1.
Thanks for the lower price but I'm thinking there are better options elsewhere.
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Without going into too much detail, you mentioned "It found many for me, but alas, no count is shown on the GUI"
At the bottom of the GUI there's an indicator clearly showing the number of scanned files as well as the number of duplicates.
"The biggest problem I found is it does not clearly display the duplicates"
Having the duplicate files grouped by color, with information regarding Name, Location, Size, etc., was very clear in my experience. You can select to view all files instead of just duplicates, and you can choose a sorting method that potentially has the files in different places on the list. For example, if the duplicate files are named aaa.txt and zzz.txt and you choose to sort them by name ("File").
"If I click on that one row, two files appear in the bottom section. Very confusing and makes me wonder if I can trust it."
If you click on any file the display at the bottom shows a preview of the file and every duplicate, whether there are 2 files or 20. That way you can actually look at the file and visually confirm that it is a duplicate. This works better with PDF, JPEG, etc., but I find it useless with audio and other formats. I wish they incorporated the Quick Look capability.
"This concerns me when the removal button is called "Delete Selected Items". For that reason, I did not test the delete function."
What name would be more appropriate? That button Deletes the Items you Select. You still have the choice of moving the files to a folder you specify instead of the Trash, which is the default. You can also select duplicates by clicking a button, but I prefer to do it manually.
"If nothing else, the Location column has to reflect the different pathing for each of the files."
It's already doing that. Most of the time that's how I manually choose which duplicate(s) to remove.
All of this -and more- is explained in a single page in the Help (Using Araxis Find Duplicate Files). It probably took me 5 minutes to read it.
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At the bottom of the GUI there's an indicator clearly showing the number of scanned files as well as the number of duplicates.
My review: "The biggest problem I found is it does not clearly display the duplicates"
Having the duplicate files grouped by color, with information regarding Name, Location, Size, etc., was very clear in my experience.
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I did not understand your last comment, but to clarify:
You said: "no count is shown on the GUI"
I said it is indeed shown at the bottom of the GUI.
You said: "it does not clearly display the duplicates"
I said it does. Duplicates are given the same color and are typically grouped together.
Fortunately there's a demo and people can try the software and decide for themselves. I just wanted to point out that those criticisms -and others- are not accurate.
I do think that there's room for improvement in other areas of the software such as QuickLook for example, but have to disagree with some of your comments.
I hope this clarifies my prior comments.
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Espiridion reviewed on 05 Dec 2008
At $20, this is their cheapest program. Tidy Up, for example, is $30. FileBuddy is $40 and has a myriad of features including finding duplicate files. Great program.
Overall I like Araxis FDF, but there's room for improvement:
1. Some file types are not recognized (e.g., text clippings, XMind documents, etc.). File Buddy had no problem with these files. On the other hand, FDF found many images from OMNI Graffle files, and FB did not.
2. The font size seems too small.
3. It does not have many preference, so it does not allow for much customization.
I did like the preview of the files, and managed to get rid of many duplicates I had in one folder and various sub-folders. The process was slow since I would not let FDF automatically choose which files to remove, but just from that folder containing mostly PDF files I got rid of 1.2 GB of duplicates.
I will be using it quite a bit, so I decided to purchase it, but at first it seems a bit expensive.
It also integrates with Araxis Merge.
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Please bring the prices down or get with MU and do a one day deal, I think your company would benefit from more customers at a lower price. I don't need to explain economics, you know what your doing. Just wish they were priced fairly.
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AndrewK714 rated on 21 Sep 2011