Remove duplicate files – Duplicate Files Search & Link 10.4.0 + Portable

Duplicate Files Search & Link (Duplicate Searcher) is an application for searching for duplicates (duplicate files) and hard links, as well as NTFS symbolic links to the same file on hard drives. Duplicate Files Search & Link searches for duplicate files, regardless of the file name (using byte-by-byte comparison), as well as NTFS links to the same file. This application allows you to not only delete duplicate files or move them to another location, as most other programs of this kind do, but also replace duplicate files with hard links or NTFS symbolic links to the same file on disk (unique!).

System requirements:

Windows 7 – Windows 11 (x86 / x64)
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8 or later
Additionally, you can install .NET Desktop Runtime 7.0 (The version for .NET7 is the fastest)

Torrent Duplicate Files Search & Link 10.4.0 + Portable details:

NTFS hard links are entries in the NTFS file system through which multiple file paths can reference the same file on disk. NTFS hard links allow multiple files to share the same disk space (same file). For example, multiple applications can use hard links to the same version of a library, rather than using separate copies of the library files. If multiple hard links point to the same file, then deleting any of those links will not delete the file and free up disk space until the last hard link to the file is deleted.

Peculiarities:

• Free for non-commercial use.
• The fast search engine can scan files on multiple independent physical drives in parallel, and read and compare multiple files simultaneously from a single solid-state (SSD) drive.
• Allows you to identify directory entries that reference a shared file (hard and symbolic links).
*Since version 6, hard and symbolic links are also supported on partitions with Linux EXT2, EXT3, EXT4 file systems (tested only with the Ext2Fsd driver for Windows).
• Allows you to identify audio, video, and JPG files that contain binary identical media content, but have differences in media tags or metadata describing the content of the content. (New in version 7. UNIQUE!)
• Allows you to replace files with hard and symbolic links.
• When replacing files with hard links, an optional check for compatibility of NTFS access rights is possible.
• File replacement with hard links means linking multiple directory entries (file names) to a single file located on the same logical drive (also called a partition or volume).
• Attention! Be very careful when replacing links with system files, backup files, or files that may be modified by users or the system. Hard and symbolic links are no longer separate (independent) files, all links lead to the same file, so changing the file on any of the links will change the contents of the file for all links at the same time.
• Detailed visualization of connections and grouping of duplicate files, as well as hard and symbolic links.
• Filtering and sorting files according to various criteria, including the number of hard links and the degree of file fragmentation.
• Supports long file and folder paths (longer than the standard 260 character limit), which are often not supported by other programs.
• Supported languages: English, English, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Italian, French, German, Polish, Japanese, Chinese.

Changes in version:

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About Portable:
The program is from the developers and does not require installation. Launches and works from any USB drive. Distributed in the form of an author’s archive due to high compression.

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