In , on 03/03/06 
   at 05:19 PM, Kevin Johnson  typed:

>  Anyone a favourite software item to search, preferably the whole drive,
>looking for file duplicates Byte by Byte, and then the option to copy
>move or destroy?

Hmm - I don't have such an animal, but if I were to design a tool, I
would: 1. build a list of all files on the drive with their full filespec
and file lengths. 2.  sort by length.
3.  Discard files with unique lengths.
3a. optional - discard any files with length less than xxx (avoid working
further on files that are too short to bother).... 4.  For every group of
files with the same length, compute the CRC for each file 5.  Sort this
list (file name, length, crd) by length (high order key) and CRC (low
order key). 6.  When 2 files have same length and CRC, do a binary
comparison to be sure.

Anything that survives is a candidate.
 
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