Duplicate Files Deleter helps me a lot when i have an issue like file deleting or renaming the file.

Installed without problem on a WinXP 64 machine and am very pleased with the programme. I really like the fact that it picks up files that are the same but have different names. You have to be aware that there will be some false matches, but since I check the whether I want to delete something beforehand these are pretty easy to spot, checking what the files are is very easy as well so not an issue at all. This amounts to a huge advantage over those programmes that are based on file name matching. Thank you very much for an excellent giveaway.

TriSun Software and GOTD should REALLY consider having the Advanced Date Time Calculator as a giveaway again. It is a very handy program to have. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more !!!!!

Not nearly as capable as Clonespy, which is free.

This program is a real disaster. It finds as "duplicate" filel that are DEFINITELY NOT duplicates !!! It is fast but unreliable !

Downloaded, installed and registered with no problems. Ran my first scan and it took about 20 minutes but then, at the end, it said it was loading the results. I waited for 15 minutes and it kept telling me it was loading the results. I finally quit and just selected a few files instead of the complete HD. It scanned very rapidly but when it was supposed to publish the report it again said it was loading. I waited another 15 minutes but nothing ever happened. I uninstalled the program and downloaded and installed it again. I ran the same two tests described previously with the same results. After the holiday weekend, I will try to use the chat capability for support and see what they say. If they can't help, I'll just uninstall and chalk it up to a bad experience.

Aaaak! Could not, would not, find, or start or take any action what so ever! Win 10 64-bit. Mmaaaa! What a pain!

Win 7. Set it running last night and went to bed. No longer scanning this morning, no results and its locked solid - not responding. Uninstalled.

I'm kinda curious.. Other than eliminating clutter which of itself is useful, with today's terabytes who really needs to recover valuable space when there's always space to spare? (at least for me).. I'll pass, not because it's a bad deal but because I have this as a secondary option in another program and hardly ever use it. Thanks anyway TriSun & GOTD.

Disappointing. Slower than molasses running uphill on a cold day. Uninstalled.

Downloaded and registered without problems on Windows XP SP3 and Win 8.1. Scanned a disc with 160 GB of data (photos, music, installers, aso). The program froze after 4 minutes. Could stop it in task manager. Did a second scan of photo folder only (98 GB). The scan was fast (34 sec) and accurate ans allowed to delete +/- 150 MB of dups. When looking to the results however, I noticed that all the duplicate photos where 100% identical. Will a picture with reduced size be detected as duplicate ? I don' t know and there is no information about the similarity (like in the free program Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder).
So, how to improve the program ? 1. Detect similar pictures and provide similarity info. 2. Change the display color of the duplicates; difference between green and black is not very visible. 3. Allow to open duplicates individually. 4. When saving current results, include files that were selected.
For me, it's double usage with the duplicate file finder included in my JV16 Power Tools, but I' ll keep it for it' s ease of use and speed. Thanks to TssI and GOTD !

Software hanged after a couple of min in the "only scan the following selected drives " mode. Wa looking for images & videos.

Does it use exif photo data?

I downloaded, opened it & waited for it to do its thing. It did not do a thing. I was careful about what I wanted it to search for (having read the comment about possibly changing settings without your knowledge, etc). Do tell me, how long is it supposed to take to find the files? I've been sitting here for 5 minutes. Granted, I have a lot of stuff on my desktop, but still ------ I'll report back if it doesn't work at all. Sounds like a nice program. We'll see.

From the wording used in the writeup by the developer of the software, I get the feeling that if you should lose the software for some reason you could reinstall it - reinstall it at least on the same computer. One of the phrases that makes me think this might be true is a statement regarding a "lost password" and recovery of same.

KC4COP

Watch out: do NOT check all files that are displayed in groups (colors) in the "duplicate file finder plus result" window because all files with the same content will then be deleted (no files with that content will remain). I had rather seen that when for instance 2 duplicate files are found, only one of the 2 could be selected to be removed.

downloaded and installed just fine, registered the software with key, no problems on Win7Pro

however, either I am great at not having dupes or it won't run. clicked the green 'find' button which brings up another window and it just sits there. at the very bottom it says waiting. any clues to what I am doing incorrectly?

It does not work for me. Already uninstalled and installed with antivirus off, no change. I ve got only blank screen

I installed and registered the program on a windows 10 computer. with both a system drive and an external 4tb usb3 drive. I checked off those options which would search for files of one meg or more, and all of the standard file types.

The windows that is labeled "Current Progress", shows the program to be "Scanning in" the contents of a subfolder on the C drive. That subfolder has about 300 large pdfs in it. The window remains with that display - there has been no change of where the program appears to be searching. This has been the situation for the 20 minutes since the search started. There is no indication that program has hung, and no indication as to whether the program is actually chugging along.

I will let this continue for another hour or so. It is possible that the program simply has poor status indication.

HJB

As is my habit (a good habit to have), I read all the comments concerning this giveaway. I have to say this is the most positive feedback I have seen in well over a month at GOTD! This is a good thing too because I certainly need an app like this. I know I have a lot of duplicates on my hard drive, and they are pretty much scattered in several folders. So this will be a big help in cleaning up and recovering much needed disk space. I have to go out for a bit to get some errands taken care of, and when I return, I will certainly grab this. I do have Glary Utilities, but have been unable to use it for this type of process, mainly because I did not know it had the feature (As one person that posted here has indicated, unless that is something other than the Glary Utilities Registry Cleaner). Will look into that and see what I can find out. However, I definitely plan to grab this one while it is being given away. I will then try it out and report my findings.

I used Revo Uninstaller to remove version 3 of this program (from GOTD back in 2013!). After the program's uninstaller finished, Revo found NO other leftover files to delete. Very rare for a developer to be so thorough and caring for their customers. Thanks TriSun!

This GOTD is one to pass on. I have WIN 7, with 172 GB to be scanned on the C drive. It has failed twice with the "Not Responding" failure. I have Clone File Checker from a previous GOTD (it works great, but it's slow), and had hopes that Duplicate File Finder Plus 4.0 would be faster. Anyway, this will be deleted. Save your time and skip this one!

Hello,

If there is a 50% discount how come the purchase page reflects $12.49...instead of like $7.99 or so. Half of $14.99?
Please advise.

A real eye opener. Found roughly 15 gb of dupes mostly due to iTunes (curse it to death) copying files as if there were no tomorrow. Worked quickly and AFAIK, found no false positives. There may be those but of the ones I examined, I found none.

Downloaded and registered without problems on Win10. Tried scanning three time but it stopped responding each time. The first time it was scanning both my C drive and my external drive. The second and third times it was scanning just the C drive. I'm done with it.

Dear all,

Some users ask us "how to register the license", we answer all here:

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Please use it to register your license and keep it well.

Register Steps
1. Download the latest version of Duplicate File Finder Plus from its official page. Install and run it.
2. Click the 'License' button (BOTTOM-LEFT, FOURTH) on the main interface, and then click 'Input License Key...' menu item.
3. Paste your license key and input your name to complete the registration.

Note: if you lost the license key, please click 'Retrieve License Key' menu item (under 'License' button as above) to get it again.

Please let us know if you have any questions about this.
Thanks and best regards!

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Windows Explorer Solution Team
TriSun Software
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I've tried to install the program, but it seems to have disappeared. Tried to install first as normal user, but the Windows allow install window was invisible. So I changed to Admin User, it seemed to install ok, but where on earth is it? Totally disappeared. Something is badly written, and this worries me. If it can disappear, what else can it do? Any help please? David

I'm amazed! When I saw this giveaway, I thought, "Why would I have duplicate files?" I still tried it, though, because I've been running low on disk space lately. Wow, GBs! I guess I was sloppier when I first got this PC and the free space seemed inexhaustible.

Thanks! : )

This is a great tool and fairly fast. The options after the scan are also very handy.
I would like to install it on a thumbdrive if I could. I could use it on my computer
at the cottage. Anyone have some success in installing on a thumb.
Thanks GOTD and Trisun for this program. It is a very useful tool.

No one mentioned in previous comments that you have to agree to change your homepage and search engine in order to download this program. If I am mistaken on that, please let me know as I wanted this program.

Can those who have installed this software, do a quick check to see if it has affected your Network in any way?
Has it changed any of the settings (without telling you)?
I recall previously when I installed this, my Network went haywire.

Tried a USB 2.0 flash drive. Scanned 7,000 files (14.5 GB) in 5.7minutes. Nice software.

The program is stuck on "waiting". What am I doing wrong? I've uninstalled and installed it again, the key was accepted, everything fine but doesn't seem to scan anything. Any help?

Installation and registration went smoothly on Win 10/64-bit.

This program searches very quickly, and I most commend it for that. It did slow down quite a bit for loading the list after it finished searching, but the searching itself was fast.

I really like the way it presents duplicates so that you can know what you're doing when choosing to delete or not.

I would like to suggest, though, that in a future version the size filters be recalibrated. This being 2016, 1 MB is not really a very large file. I have files as big as 28 GB (.mkv), and to be lumped into the same size group as 128 MB is laughable. Now days a picture file can be over 1 MB, a song can be 5-###? MB, and a movie/video file can range from 10 MB (short clip) to multiple GB (full movie as above mkv). Hopefully a future incarnation will add a couple more size groups for searching out really big duplicates.

Overall, this is a really good program and a definite keeper!

AllDup. It's free, fast and there is a portable version. Suits me. The Best!

To complicated. Where can i find my photo map.?

I get as far as checking for duplicates and then stop there for fear I will delete something that I shouldn't. Haven't given this a try in a long time. Can anyone tell me if these kinds of programs have become more fail safe to use in the last few years?

Will not run on Windows 10 Pro??

Ran the setup file, Said "Successfully Activated" witch is funny because I have not put in the Registration key!

OK so where did it install to? No Desktop shortcut, no start menu shortcut, not in "C:\Program Files" Not In "C:\Program Files (x86)"

Tryed to registete.
shoud also give a name.
But registration lock up with a statement of "false name"

Joergen

Glary Utilities offers a good duplicate file finder as part of its arsenal of utilities. Coincidentally I had *just* finished using it when this giveaway came up. This is slightly faster, but as I had just finished "de-duping" I'm not sure it's a fair comparison!

Not exactly a 'Beyond Compare', but great software!

Now a GOTD-offer for Advanced Date Time Calculator, Date Time Counter and Easy Work Time Calculator and I'm in heaven! Not between 8 and 16 July please ... Holiday ;) :D

Thanks a lot TriSun and GOTD!

At last a decent duplicate file finder; excellent filtering is allowed, where to search, types of file to search for, video, images etc and select the size range of the files.

When the search is completed a list of the duplicates is presented, it gives the file name, the file path, file size, file type and date modified.

If you select a file the options are, move to recycle,delete, open run, open location and properties.

According to the help it finds duplicates by content, rather than just size and name.

This is by far the best duplicate file finder I have found because of its easy use and method of filtering, I will most certainly be keeping this first-rate piece of software.

Downloaded, installed and registered with no problems. No email required for the registration code as it's supplied in the notepad file.

Tested it on a folder where I knew I had a bunch of duplicate files from a recent recovery of an outside drive. This program found multiple duplicates in a matter of seconds in a folder with over 43,000 font files.

Relatively self-explanatory interface and is easy to use.

While this program is useful for finding duplicate files it would be also useful to have a program for finding files that are not duplicate then I can find the files that I have not backed up on my external hard drive.

Just in case folks are looking for other options to compare with this giveaway I personally I recommend two freebies...

https://www.hardcoded.net/dupeguru/ (dupe finder with LOTS of features)

and

https://windirstat.info/ (to get big picture of where all your space has gone)

J