StopDuplicates

System Requirements :

You need Java 6 update 10 to use this program (current Java version is Java 6 update 12).

Tested on Fedora 9,10 and Windows XP, Vista

Launch StopDuplicates :

Linux :
In a terminal type :

$ java -jar StopDuplicates-1.4.jar

Windows :
In Files Explorer

Double click on StopDuplicates-1.4.jar

Preparing for Searching

If you want a based on extensions search. Enter these extensions in the extensions field.
Extensions must be separated by comma ",", no need to enter a dot "." before every extension. Using the wild card "*" means do a global search, including all files with any sort of extensions

Select Include Sub folders, if you want to search in sub directories too

Click on "Browse" to select the root directory for duplicates searching

Select a Directory :

Browse your file system. A file chooser is opened where you can select a directory.

Click on "Search"

This will begin searching operation

You can cancel

At any moment you can cancel your searches

Duplicates (duplicate files):

All files that have duplicates in the selected "root"directory are found and displayed. Total number of these files is also displayed.

When you click on a file in the left list (Files), all duplicates of this file are displayed in the right list (Duplicates)

Simple Delete

If you want to delete one or more duplicates of a given file :
Select the file(s) in the right list (Duplicates) -> click on Delete button.

Please note :
"Global Delete" is not checked in this case.

Deleted Files

After the selected files have been deleted, right list is updated (Left list also and total number of duplicates if the file has no more duplicates) A list of the deleted files is displayed in the messages area and whether the deleting operation was successful or not.

HTML Files Case

For HTML files you can delete the duplicates and also their duplicate associated directories.

To use this option check "Del. HTML Directory". This check box is enabled if HTML file(s) are found.

Global Delete

You can delete all duplicates of one or more files with a simple click on "Delete"

1. First of all select "Global Delete"
2. Select one or more files in the left list (Files)
3. click on Delete

Deleted Files

All the duplicates of the the selected files are deleted, lists and total field and the messages area are updated.

HTML Files and Global Delete

In the same way, you can delete all duplicates of a given file and all duplicate directories associated with HTML files. If non HTML files are found too and selected for a delete, this option (Del. HTML Directory) has no effect on these files. "Global Delete" will simply delete HTML files and directories and delete also non HTML files.

Debug Option

If you check "Debug" check box, errors will be written in .log files

Normal .log Files

After a searching operation, you will find in the current directory, a file called "sd-duplicates.log"

After a delete operation, you will find in the current directory, a file called "sd-deleted.log"

Duplicates Log File

When a searching has finished, names of files and their duplicates are written in a file.

This file is "sd-duplicates.log" and is located in the same directory from where you had launched StopDuplicates

Deleted Files Log File

All deleted files have their names written in "sd-deleted.log". This file is located in the same directory as StopDuplicates

Using Internationalization i18n

A click on "Language" menu -> select a language. From this moment on your interface will be in the chosen language

Changing the Look

A click on "L&F" -> select a look and feel from the list (depending on your OS)

And what about errors :

Critical errors are sent to sd-info-errors0.log, or sd-info-errors1.log located in the same directory as StopDuplicates (if Debug is checked)

All feedback welcome ! all comments welcome !

Enjoy :)