I'm looking for a Window-Eyes-friendly program which will help me
identify and get rid of duplicate files. I'm thinking of something
like the fc (or file compare) utility in DOS which compared files
character by character and showed up to ten differences, giving a
message if more than ten differences existed.
I'm also looking for something like a third-party DOS utility called
"repeats.com", which searched a hard drive for files with the same
name and produced a report (which you could pipe to a file) grouping
together all files with the same name, showing the path, date and
byte count for each .
Of course <smile> I'm also open to learning new ways to accomplish
the task of identifying and removing duplicate, or near-duplicate but
outdated, files from hard drives clogged with such material. If the
program can be told to move all non-duplicate files from the source
to the target directory and to delete source-directory files which
match target-directory files byte for byte, so much the better.
I know about the search utility from the start menu (Windows XP Pro).
But some of the path names will be fairly long, and that utility
seems to truncate such names or snip bits out of the
middle. Besides, finding small differences in long path names by
ear alone overloads the buffers in my verbal memory.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Steve
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