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Duplicate Files and folder merging
Arnold Richter | Mar 17 2008
I've searched a bit around this forum and others, and not found particularly useful information on merging and otherwise distilling duplicate files in Leopard and possibly Windows. In particular I have nested folders on two macs and a win xp machine that I would like to merge and synchronize. Currently I'm syncing the macs with Chronosync, but I'd like to merge the data from the windows machine and sync all three ideally. I could conceivably de-nest everything using some scripting to handle obvious duplicates, and then give everything a new hierarchy once cleaned up. But I'd like to explore a more eloquent solution as I value my time and efficiency somewhat more... Is there anybody who has used Araxis Merge and has an opinion to share? http://www.araxis.com/merge_mac/topic_features.html Is there anybody who has used DupeGuru and has an opinion to share? http://www.hardcoded.net/dupeguru/ Can Merlin's beloved Pathfinder handle duplicate finding and or folder merging with files and folders containing duplicates in differing trees? Can Chronosync do something along these lines that I've missed? arri 1 Comment
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 Duplicate Files and folder mergingSubmitted by vicpo on April 1, 2008 - 9:21pm.
arri have you tried "Duplicates SearcherFull.jar" Forgot where I got it but should be easily obtained using a search engine. It is freeware. It's a Java based program that has worked very well for me (using leopard 10.5.2) I am very new to using Macs and have screwed up more file duplicate removals in the past than I can shake a stick at; but this program works great for me. Can't tell you if it works across platforms though. Good Luck :-) ~v » POSTED IN:
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