It depends what you're looking at - in my environments it's *highly* unlikely any two files with same name, created/modify date, file size and checksum are actually different files. Having said that I don't ever blindly have it delete every duplicate either.
The users I deal with are good at copying the same file into their local My Documents, their home drive on the LAN, and a team folder on the LAN. Oh yeah, and in their e-mail as well because they sent it to their buddies.. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: James Winzenz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 9:14 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Duplicated File Finder I would be wary of using any product to check for duplicate files. How do you *know* they are duplicate files? How is it checking? Filename, last modified date, size, etc. could all be the same, but the files could still be different. Unless your program has a way of scanning the content of the files (scary!) to confirm all of the data is exactly the same, I would be leery of any results, and I certainly wouldn't use this for any sort of data cleanup effort unless it were just to notify the user(s) and ask them to check those files and remove any duplicates. That being said, I have never used said program, so I don't know anything about the way it works. But we have seen other programs that claim to find duplicate files (Treesize Pro, have used Bindview (now Symantec Control Compliance Suite)), and none of them work to the level where I would completely trust the results. Thanks, James Winzenz Infrastructure Engineer - Security Pulte Homes Information Services ________________________________ From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 8:42 AM Posted To: NTSysadmin Conversation: Duplicated File Finder Subject: RE: Duplicated File Finder I'm running it on 2003, it's amazing how some users have to have the same files in so many different folder! I guess they user belt and suspenders also! __________________________________________________ Stefan Jafs From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:38 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Duplicated File Finder Bah. It doesn't understand the file and directory links used by Vista and Server 2008. It seriously over-reports disk usage and finds duplicate files that aren't actually duplicates. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 1:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Duplicated File Finder Thanks, seems to work good! __________________________________________________ Stefan Jafs From: Liu, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 12:18 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Duplicated File Finder Disk recon. Its cheap & you can do other storage mgmt/reports From: Stefan Jafs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 12:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Duplicated File Finder What do you guys use to find duplicated files on your file server? __________________________________________________ Stefan Jafs This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). 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