Duplicate files exits in every home computer and enterprise storage system. Sometimes there
may be many duplicate files wasting large amounts of disk space for no reason. FlexTk files
management toolkit includes a built-in duplicate files finder allowing one to scan hard disks
and network shares and detect duplicate files. The user is provided with the ability to delete
duplicates or move duplicates to an archive location while keeping file links pointing to original
files. In addition, the FlexTk's built-in duplicate files finder allows one to export duplicate
files reports into a number of standard formats such as HTML, Excel CSV and ASCII text.
Typically, duplicate files are collected over time as we are downloading music files and movies,
burning CDs, working with documents and organizing photos. It is very common to use various download
accelerators, which are capable of downloading tens of files simultaneously in a single mouse click.
Multiple versions of the same file are saved in different directories and sometimes have different
file names. The only way to get rid of duplicate files wasting your disk space is to periodically
scan the hard disk for duplicates and delete all duplicate files that are wasting a significant
amount of space. Not all duplicate files may be safely deleted. Duplicate files that are located
in the Windows system directory may have a special use and it is not recommended to delete them.
