The modern home or professional computing user’s appetitive for disk space just keeps on growing, primarily because of our ever-evolving ability to digitize critical elements of our personal and business lives.
At home, people are amassing large volumes of documents, images, music files, and videos. In particular, modern digital photo and video cameras produce very large, high-resolution content files that consume considerable amounts of disk space. And how often have you downloaded and saved a file (be it an application, image, video, or whatnot) a second (or even third) time simply because you couldn’t quickly find the original that you knew existed somewhere on your hard drive?
In the business arena, we’re working to digitize our document libraries to improve efficiency and reduce use of paper products, often creating duplication along the way. We’re maintaining large image and video repositories for archival and analysis purposes. And, we’re keeping these items in storage areas (often accessed through a local area network), portions of which are often allocated to users who download (or exchange via email) and store the same files repeatedly.
In both the home and the office, the use of inexpensive external file storage mechanisms is also increasing. It’s not uncommon to see people carrying around one or more USB keys and copying files onto various desktop and notebook computers for immediate use. Many home and business computing users also utilize one more larger external (eSATA, USB, or FireWire) storage volumes. All of these storage devices can quickly become cluttered with multiple copies of identical files.
And duplicate file storage has serious consequences. Not only is disk space used unnecessarily, duplicate files can also deteriorate the performance of backup processes and – in the case of the frequently-used online backup storage option – increase their expense considerably. The presence of duplicate files can also impede business collaboration when users discover multiple copies of seemingly identical documents, as well as impacting file system searches and archival processes.
Duplicate File Detective 3 is a software product designed to help users find and remove duplicate files. It can operate against local drives, network attached storage volumes, removable devices and more – and it search them all at the same time. What’s more, it contains powerful tools to help remove or archive duplicate files quickly, and safely.
With Duplicate File Detective 3, you can:
- Reclaim wasted local and network storage resources quickly and efficiently
- Speed up backup processes by reducing storage allocation redundancy
- Gain visibility into what types of duplicates are consuming space and who owns them
- Process (move, delete, or zip) duplicates safely with our built-in file management system
- Scan and de-dupe file systems of virtually any size with our extreme scalability engine
- Find duplicates by any combination of attributes, including content-only matching (regardless of file names)
You can download Duplicate File Detective 3 and begin using the free, fully-functional trial version immediately.