Description: Duplicate & Same Files Searcher for Windows 2000 / XP / Server 2003 / Vista / Server 2008 / Windows 7 / Windows 8
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Duplicate Files Search & Link (Duplicate Searcher) is an application for searching duplicate files (clones) and NTFS hard links as well symbolic links to the same file. It searches duplicate file contents regardless of file name (byte-by-byte comparison is used). This application allows not only to delete duplicate files or to move them to another location, but to replace duplicates with NTFS hard links or symbolic links as well (unique!) .
This application was developed because I haven’t find any similar application which allows to operate NTFS-links.
A NTFS hard link is the file system representation of a file by which more than one path can refer a single file in the same partition. NTFS hard links allow several files to share the same space on the disk (the same file). For example, several applications can use NTFS-links to the same version of the library instead using different copies of the library files. If several hard links point to the one file, deleting of any hard links doesn't cause deleting of the file and freeing disk space until the last h