#DUPLICATE FILE CLEANER REVIEW UPDATE#
#DUPLICATE FILE CLEANER REVIEW PRO#

Here is a summary of our review of Clone Files Checker and Duplicate Cleaner.User issues, however, are a different story altogether. Considering that all the complex filtering options are provided in this software, it would have been a huge drawback if this particular feature wasn’t there. Duplicate Cleaner provides a remarkable set of features as well as filtering options and the developers have done a commendable job arranging the GUI in a simple way that anyone can get used to within a few minutes.Īnother point worth mentioning about the Duplicate Cleaner is the ability to save/load profiles to persist filtering preferences. However, one area where the Duplicate Cleaner designers deserve appreciation is how intelligently they have packed a host of features in the UI. The UI of Duplicate Cleaner looks to be designed while keeping in mind the same old school approach, and there isn’t much worth mentioning about it.

#DUPLICATE FILE CLEANER REVIEW UPDATE#

Even though the UI of Clone Files Checker is fine, there is always room for improvements and it is hoped the next update will signal changes which combined with the excellence of the software will lead it to new heights. It has a catchy yet extremely simple UI compared to its compatriot. UI and UsabilityĬlone Files Checker certainly enjoys a clear advantage over its rival in this category. It also has a feature to scan your Google Drive for possible duplicates on the cloud drive. Moreover, Clone Files checker has a very handy option to scan iTunes library for duplicates, which will surely be music to the ears of Apple fans. So we can easily conclude that both of these tools perform a simple file content match, rather than a complex music analysis. But both of them did identify these two files as duplicates when we only used the metadata search. Unfortunately, both of these tools failed to identify them as duplicates.

Unfortunately, Clone Files Checker does not provide this feature.ĭuplicate Cleaner also enables you to specify if you just want the content inside the files to be ignored and just want the scan to be carried out by taking into account other similar attributes.Īnd there are also some advanced filtering options to modify your scan criteria.īoth of these tools allow you to search for duplicate music files.Īs you can see, both the tools allow us to scan the content of the music files to identify the duplicates, apart from the obvious metadata search.Īs a test case, we added two music files of the same song with nominal variation (My Immortal by Evanescence from Fallen and Origin albums) and scanned for duplicates. Although this option takes up a considerable amount of time if you’re looking among a large number of files with a low similarity threshold. And it does identify these two files as potential duplicates. Hence we changed the content of the two files into “Hello friends” and “Hello friend”, and set the similarity threshold at 90%.

#DUPLICATE FILE CLEANER REVIEW PRO#

Since Duplicate Cleaner Pro provides an additional feature where it scans the content present inside the file and looks up for files containing the same content. In order to test the duo, let’s make two text files which contain exactly identical content, and then scan them.īoth the tools identify these duplicate files without any hassle. You’ll easily notice the complex filtering options that Duplicate Cleaner provides, compared to the intermediate level options incorporated by Clone Files Checker. The first difference that’ll strike you in the first look is the filtering options in these two tools.

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