Singlemizer: The Duplicate Finder

I compared two demo versions of utilities to remove duplicate files/folders. I chose this one because … * I can clearly see all of the folders that are going to be scanned in the opening input panel (and could not in the other app) * The panel to do the selections can be reduced in size, which is critical on a small screen (even on a 15 in MBP, the other app over-dominated the screen real estate) * The selection method clearly prevents you from removing all “duplicate" copies of a folder or file Both this app and the other one I demoed missed certain duplicate files and did not collect comparable file sets properly in their folders first. I would suggest therefore not to make a decision only on this criteria. I also did not test on photos or music libraries, only on Finder-level folders, and in those cases YMMV. Documentation for help is sparse if non-existent for this app. It took a while to understand the “priority ranking” method of arranging folders on the input panel (suggestion — give a cleaner presentation of this info in the input panel). Whether you want also to eliminate empty folders behind trashing files or instead want to make alias or links to trashed files may make a break-point in your decision process. A nicer method to do “side-by-side” nested comparisons of the contents in folder structures would be useful, as would a method to tag folders (ie attach a Finder tag — “cleaned”) where files have been removed (for later review and post-processing at the Finder level). In any case, this app, with it minimalist UI and clearer up-front selection of folders to scan, won my votes.

Finds duplicate files and allows you to delete them. I used it to recover a lot of space formerly used by dupilate video files on my NAS.

Superb interface allowing you to rank searched folders, so that candidates for trash appear and can be dealt with consistently.

Beavers away in the background and lets you know if you have duplicates files. Useful to reclaim disk space and organize stuff. Magically seems to know which files are “duplicates” and which files are “originals” and lets you delete duplicates. When it does NOT guess correctly, you can override - but (feature request!) wish it was easier to say “No, this one is te duplicate” so then one can go ahead and “delete all duplicates”.