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| File Size | 4.6 MB |
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| License | Freeware |
| Operating System | Windows 7/8/Vista/XP |
| Date Added | October 14, 2019 |
| Total Downloads | 20,196 |
| Publisher | Marcus Kleinehagenbrock |
| Homepage | CloneSpy |
Publisher's Description
CloneSpy can help you free up hard drive space by detecting and removing duplicate files. Duplicate files can have exactly the same contents regardless of their name, date, time and location. It is able to find files that are not exactly identical, but have the same filename. Perhaps you have different versions of a file and you want to find all of them and remove the older versions. It can also find zero length files, which are files that have no content.
Latest Reviews
chrispaul reviewed v3.01 on Feb 17, 2014
excellent
DKDude reviewed v2.61 on Jun 29, 2011
Great tool, have used it for years.
Keep up the good work.
cassidy reviewed v2.33 on Nov 30, 2008
This program has no way to filter searches, which is a serious detriment if you have a lot of files.
AnybodyMustermann reviewed v2.33 on Sep 27, 2008
Good program, but the duplicate detection engine needs some serious work. To check my sample of 232GB for duplicate files CloneSpy took 17minutes and read 53GB of data from the Harddisk.
Duplicate Cleaner v1.2 (also a free program) on the other hand also gets the job done within 7 minutes while reading 15,2GB of data. Since CloneSpy did not find any additional duplicates that Duplicate Cleaner v1.2 had not already found, CloneSpy's engine must have some efficiency drawbacks and probably needs a rewrite...
zridling reviewed v2.33 on Jul 18, 2008
Hard to argue with the results of CloneSpy. Works like a charm, and is faster than the rest.
d1910 reviewed v2.3 on Apr 13, 2008
No unicode support
zridling reviewed v2.3 on Dec 6, 2006
DoubleKiller is fine, but doesn't have nearly the accuracy and features that CloneSpy has.
notcho reviewed v2.21 on Jul 11, 2006
I would also suggest anyone looking for a duplicate files locator to try "DoubleKiller".
ahjefri reviewed v2.21 on Jul 1, 2006
Very nice program , but needs to have differenct setting as defaul, like by default it shoul list all duplicate in a list instead of 1 by 1 select,,
I will give it 5 for the choices for selecting the duplicate and replacing shortcut for the duplicate,,
zridling reviewed v2.21 on Jun 20, 2006
My experience was just the opposite of jamomea's: CloneSpy found what a half dozen other duplicate finders could not and did not take forever doing so. I even tried to trick it by renaming some of the files and it still flagged them as duplicates. CloneSpy is fast, easy, and accurate, which makes it well worth a donation.
chrispaul reviewed v3.01 on Feb 17, 2014
excellent
DKDude reviewed v2.61 on Jun 29, 2011
Great tool, have used it for years.
Keep up the good work.
cassidy reviewed v2.33 on Nov 30, 2008
This program has no way to filter searches, which is a serious detriment if you have a lot of files.
AnybodyMustermann reviewed v2.33 on Sep 27, 2008
Good program, but the duplicate detection engine needs some serious work. To check my sample of 232GB for duplicate files CloneSpy took 17minutes and read 53GB of data from the Harddisk.
Duplicate Cleaner v1.2 (also a free program) on the other hand also gets the job done within 7 minutes while reading 15,2GB of data. Since CloneSpy did not find any additional duplicates that Duplicate Cleaner v1.2 had not already found, CloneSpy's engine must have some efficiency drawbacks and probably needs a rewrite...
zridling reviewed v2.33 on Jul 18, 2008
Hard to argue with the results of CloneSpy. Works like a charm, and is faster than the rest.
d1910 reviewed v2.3 on Apr 13, 2008
No unicode support
zridling reviewed v2.3 on Dec 6, 2006
DoubleKiller is fine, but doesn't have nearly the accuracy and features that CloneSpy has.
notcho reviewed v2.21 on Jul 11, 2006
I would also suggest anyone looking for a duplicate files locator to try "DoubleKiller".
ahjefri reviewed v2.21 on Jul 1, 2006
Very nice program , but needs to have differenct setting as defaul, like by default it shoul list all duplicate in a list instead of 1 by 1 select,,
I will give it 5 for the choices for selecting the duplicate and replacing shortcut for the duplicate,,
zridling reviewed v2.21 on Jun 20, 2006
My experience was just the opposite of jamomea's: CloneSpy found what a half dozen other duplicate finders could not and did not take forever doing so. I even tried to trick it by renaming some of the files and it still flagged them as duplicates. CloneSpy is fast, easy, and accurate, which makes it well worth a donation.
jamomea reviewed v2.11 on May 15, 2006
Pros: Has a lot of config options and pretty fast.
Cons: Does not really seem to find any duplicate files. I tested it against My Music folder which contains 4,971 files - CloneSpy found 0 duplicates (but did so pretty quickly!). I then tried Mo-Search's built in [Find Duplicate Files] tool (also freeware) and it took longer but found 420 files, but: all files where album art.
Overall: Better free tools are out there.
MoeRL reviewed v2.11 on Apr 12, 2006
I have to change my earlier review. After testing Duplicate File Finder, I'm sold on it. I'd recommend it before CloneSpy. They are both very powerful and CloneSpy has one important feature that DFF does not have, and it's very much for the advanced user: the two compare pools and the independent CSC checksum generator. The description of that, from the official CloneSpy site, is here:
"With CloneSpy you can build checksum files from files on CDs (or even on hard drives, etc.) and use them to check whether these files already exist on your system. The checksum files will prevent you from having to play DJ every time you search for duplicates!"
That certainly is a nice feature if you need it, and DFF does not have that, but DFF's interface makes more sense to me even if they are in fact pretty similar.
What really made me switch from CloneSpy is the fact that CloneSpy simply did not find a very obvious duplicate file in a folder I gave it to search, and I have no idea why it didn't. With DFF I had no such problems. Also, DFF seems quite a bit faster with CSC checksum generation on my system than CloneSpy.
I'm keeping them both, for sure, but DFF's my new default :)
httpd.confused reviewed v2.11 on Apr 28, 2005
I'm rather tired of seeing the elusive utility named "Duplicate File Finder" being vomited all over the site--as if anyone cared about it.
CloneSpy is pretty impressive in its functionality and sound design. There are some relatively minor issues while running 120 DPI, but nothing insurmountable.
Quite a good utility, especially considering that it's freeware. (Though its freeware status has nothing to do with my rating here.)