Network aware duplicate file checkers

[MarcLister]

Does anyone know of any free duplicate file checkers that can scan network drives? I have a few network drives where I think we probably have duplicate files, mainly photos and videos, that staff have made copies off. I'd like to re-arrange these files to have them centrally stored, where only I can access them, and save the network space.

 

I've used Duplicate File Searcher but it is quite slow and hasn't been updated in 5 years. https://sourceforge.net/projects/dfr/

[Norphy]

Does anyone know of any free duplicate file checkers that can scan network drives? I have a few network drives where I think we probably have duplicate files, mainly photos and videos, that staff have made copies off. I'd like to re-arrange these files to have them centrally stored, where only I can access them, and save the network space.

 

I've used Duplicate File Searcher but it is quite slow and hasn't been updated in 5 years. https://sourceforge.net/projects/dfr/

 

You're fighting a losing fight there. You're better enabling deduplication on your volumes.

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/data-deduplication/install-enable

[MarcLister]

Hi Norphy. Thanks, I shall look into that.