I'm looking for a WE-friendly utility which will scan a hard disk (or
other media) to locate duplicate files. I'm looking for
three functions in particular:
1. finding files with duplicate file names. I had a DOS utility
called "repeats" which would do this and from which you could pipe
the output to a .txt file. That program would scan all directories
and subdirectories and group all files with the same name together in
the report so you could easily tell where all the files with the same
name were located.
2. File comparison. Once files with the same name are located, I'd
like to be able to compare them byte-for-byte. The DOS fc (for file
compare) utility did this. Does Windows XP have a similar facility
which works well with WE? If not, is there a third-party utility out
there that will do the job?
3. Finally, I'd like to be able to delete in directory B all files
which are byte-for-byte duplicates of files in directory A. I
imagine Jamal and many others on the list could in no time flat whip
out a batch file to do this. But I'm not at that level. <smile>
Thanks for any ideas.
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