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DESCRIPTION
Tidy Up! is a complete duplicate finder and disk tidiness utility.
Here are a few Tidy Up! features:
- With Tidy Up! you can search for duplicate files and packages; by the owner application, content, type, creator, extension, time modified, time created, name, label, visibility and date/age. You can also search by the tag, duration and bit installments of MP3 and AAC sound files and EXIF metadata, search the contents of the iPhoto, Aperture, iTunes, iPod databases and Mail mailboxes, and synchronize deletions with iPhoto, Mail and iTunes.
- Tidy Up! allows you to search for duplicate folders; by name, date modified, date created, label visibility, empty folders, their contents and more.
- Tidy Up! is fast, it doesn't index the scanned volumes, so you don't waste additional precious space. With its multitasking capability, you can do more searches at a time and take advantage of the latest Macintosh computers and operating systems.
- Tidy Up! comes with a search mode called Basic Mode*, which includes more than 90 pre-defined searches. For a customized strategy, you can opt for Strategy Wizard, which based on your choices creates the appropriate criteria with which to search for duplicates and a new "Smart Basket" that will contain the items to be removed, or the manual method, the most customized method offered.
- TTidy Up! has a security system that assures you will keep at least one file of the duplicate group on your disk, the ability to undo copied and moved items and the ability to restore trashed items as long as the trash is not emptied, even after a restart of the computer.
- Tidy Up! offers a full-size preview of the most commonly used files such as: audio, media, text, pdf, graphics, fonts and more... and Quick Look like in the Finder (only from OS X 10.5).
- One of the most interesting features of Tidy Up! is the capability to separate, for quick and easy organization, found items using custom criteria via "Smart Baskets." It also includes the possibility to choose, from the items belonging to the supported applications, a specific album , playlist or mailbox.
- Tidy Up! allows you to trash, move, replace the moved and trashed items with aliases or simbolic links, burn, assign colored Finder labels and export into html and text files all found items.
- Tidy Up! is fully customizable and allows you to create your preferred workspace.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.1.1: - Improved the search for MP3 by tag.
- Fixed a bug that sometimes crashed the application during a search.
- Fixed various small bugs created during the process of programming compatibility with Snow Leopard.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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| Tidy Up! User Reviews (45 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Nov 2 2009 |
FIMAN16 This doesn't seem to be working for me. I am on an 2008 intel iMac running snow leopard and Tidy Up 2.1.1. I found a bunch of old music on an external hard drive of mine which were sorted into folders that represented the song's tags. But not all of the songs were tagged correctly when I imported them into iTunes. So I thought Tidy Up would be able to sort through my iTunes folder and the music folder on the external and find the duplicates that were tagged incorrectly. Since iTunes replaced the file names of the songs that were tagged correctly, I knew that in order to find the the dupes I would need to search the filename. I verified that the untagged songs were in the "Unknown Artist" folder of the iTunes music folder so I selected the folder along with the folder on the external. I verified beforehand that there was in fact at least one set of dupes from each folder with the filename "14 - Oh Very Young.mp3". However when I perform the search, it does not give any duplicates. It searches all the files because I can see the total files searched before it finishes, but it doesn't work. I then tried a search term for the filename "14 -" and it still did not find the files! I am really disappointed with this.
(Version 2.1.1) | |
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 | Oct 25 2009 |
DROOPYSIGNAL How do I install the MP3 Pearl Module? I can't do any type of search because of the error that TidyUp can't perform the search without the module.
(Version 2.1.1) | |
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| Oct 16 2009 |
SNOWWHITESICKETTE I have several Macs and backup drives. Because I like to have certain files on all of my Macs, I noticed I had a lot of duplicates, particularly in one backup partition that all the Macs access. With the massive size of drives these days, I felt I could no longer do the job of removing duplicates manually. Who has the time? I downloaded several programs that locate duplicates, searching for the "right" app for me. Tidy Up! was the winner, hands down. There are cheaper applications, and my runner up choice was free. But Tidy Up! impressed me so much, I bought licenses for the version 1 for Tiger and version 2 for Leopard. I got both for $40, on sale at the Kagi page. Tidy Up! is FAST. I scanned an entire 120GB drive on an old G3 iMac, and Tidy Up! spotted thousands of duplicates and was done in less than a minute. Amazing! Some of the apps I tried were so slow I gave up and quit mid scan. Tidy Up! has plenty of customizable settings that can be set for scanning and/or deleting. I prefer to delete manually, because I want the greatest control over what is deleted. Some of the duplicates that Tidy Up! showed me were files I didn't even want one copy of, much less multiples. I am an icon junkie, and Tidy Up! helps me keep 15,000-20,000 icons per Mac duplicate-free. I thought I liked the version 1 of the application better, until I tweaked the preferences on version 2. Then they offered the same options on start up. Until I decide to learn more about the features, it's easier for me if both apps are alike. Tidy Up! deserves better ratings than it currently has, IMO. Most of the poor reviews are for the price to upgrade, not performance. I don't have a problem with someone leaving a poor rating for that reason, as that the reviewer's judgment call. But the application itself is very good. Tidy Up! 2 has a different look, and additional features over version 1. There are also complaints about the price from people who never bought a license. IMO Dupe Guru and its offsprings are the real rip-off in this category. Three programs from 20-25 bucks a pop and Tidy Up! finds the duplicates that take three Dupe Guru apps. Tidy Up! is a bargain in comparison, and faster by far. Tidy Up! is not cheap, but if money is more important than time, there are free apps that can help remove duplicates. My only complaint with Tidy Up! is I would have liked if the trial period let you delete more stuff, as the amount alloted is so small it is hard to judge how fast larger actions will be if you buy the license.
(Version 2.1.1) | |
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 | Sep 17 2009 |
STEVE FRAWLEY Get it while you can at this price. Some complained at $39, but this software is tremendously powerful and Giuseppe responded with a temporary price cut. No, I am not affiliated, but have used Giuseppe's excellent support when I first started using it to manage the Master Copy of my very large iTunes library. Read my earlier comments about taking time to make sure you do with it what you intend, because it really does what you tell it to do, whether you want it or not! ;) Great for finding duplicates of any kind as well . . . .
(Version 2.1) | |
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| Sep 3 2009 |
PATRICK SHEEHAN I'm guessing that some reviewers here haven't taken the time to read the "read me" file to learn how to use the program. I've been using Tidy Up since its inception and have found it incredibly useful for keeping my Macs' files in order. Often I transfer files across several machines and duplicates (and older versions) can easily become nested in folders where they're not expected. Tidy Up races through all of the files on my hard drives and presents me with the exact information I need to decide on what to keep and what to toss. What I especially fail to understand is the lambasting going on here for $20 for an upgrade to a program that many folks have used for years for free. It seems to make common sense that if a programmer spends time rewriting code to both add features and to adapt to Apple's new operating systems that such time should be remunerated. Best as I can tell, no one is being forced to upgrade. If the program is useful to you, $20 seems a small price to pay for all of the benefits it offers. Just my two cents, but I've had no problem backing that with my twenty dollars.
(Version 2.0.4) | |
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| Oct 7 2009 |
STEVE FRAWLEY Giuseppe also has a pretty high VAT tax to pay on any revenue he makes.
(Version 2.1) | |
| Aug 20 2009 |
XENOPHILE 25 freakin' megabytes for this one-trick pony? And 20 bucks, too? A very aptly named software company.
(Version 2.0.4) | |
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| Aug 20 2009 |
XENOPHILE No, make that 30 bucks. Jesus, do people really buy this stuff?
(Version 2.0.4) | |
| Jul 6 2009 |
JAN13 Unfriendly a pretty expensive for >>> UPDATE
(Version 2.0.2) | |
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| Jun 13 2009 |
MIKE_SAN cool app!! I just can't understand why only 3,5 stars at all?
(Version 2.0.2) | |
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| May 11 2009 |
NARROWNECK I couldn't believe my luck finding this application. But I find I am not able to understand the interface to achieve what I want. Which is: What images in location A are also in location B? It tells me duplicate within A and within B but not between the two! It finds JPG files when all images are selected but not when JPEG is selected! Setting up duplicates in the same location are not detected by Selecting Images, All kinds in Basic Mode. Selecting the folder and Search. Nothing found even though the selected folder has two folders containing duplicate JPG files! Hmm What did I do wrong there? Do the same with Other files and packages, All file types and they duplicate JPG files are found. Repeat that selecting two volumes with known duplicates between them but not within them and no items are found. I've experimented for an hour or so with strategies but still no success. The application is obviously very powerful and I hope to grasp it eventually. I have got some results but I'm unconfident why. JPEG filter does not allow JPG files for example. For now though I'm unable to achieve what I want. So I will not buy until I have.
(Version 2.0.1) | |
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| Nov 2 2009 |
EOLITH Per this review, Has anyone found a good duplicate file finder that will compare two different external hard drives with each other?
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