![]() ![]() DS_Store file (though it is on the filter list by default, of course). This way you can specify files which won't be flagged as duplicates, such as the ubiquitous. However, Decloner has many positive points as well! It is integrated with QuickLook, the feature in OS 10.5 which allows you to see what a file's contents are, be they text, a picture, a movie, or anything else. When you have over 1,000 duplicate files as is the case in my project, this becomes quite a hassle! ![]() You have to select each file manually by clicking it, because there is no Select All option, in order to see how many duplicates there are in total. The second, more minor flaw is that there is no total for duplicate files. In my opinion, the one flaw which keeps Decloner from being the "perfect" utility for its job is the fact that it has no "auto-delete" option, that is, an option which would keep the first copy of each file and delete the duplicates. You are then supposed to check the ones which you want to delete, which brings me to Decloner's number one flaw. Clicking the disclosure triangle will list all the duplicates of this file. It will give the name of the file, its size, how many duplicates of it there are, and what the total size of all these duplicates are. The version of Decloner was 1.0rc1, written by PixelExpresso.Īfter the scan is complete, Decloner will show you a list of files and their duplicate(s). The Mac I reviewed it on was a 1.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mac mini with 1 GB of RAM and an 80GB internal hard drive running OS 10.5.6. My main project folder (I gave the statistics earlier) took 3 minutes and 52 seconds to scan a sub-folder with 10,500 files (1 GB total) took a mere 45 seconds. This folder and all of its sub-folders will be searched. The process of using Decloner is simple enough: one simply launches the application, and then chooses the folder to search through. Decloner uses the SHA-1 algorithm to compare the contents of files, even if they have different names. ![]() Thus, Decloner can scan the directory where all of these files are and alert me of the duplicates. Since these files have come from all sorts of locations, there are bound to be duplicates. A project I'm working on, Mac GUI Vault, currently involves 27,000 files taking up about 7.2 GB of space on my Mac. If you've got many thousands of files on your Mac and you're paranoid about duplicates like I am, then Decloner is the near-perfect solution for weeding out the duplicates. ![]()
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