DupeGuru - cross-platform duplicate file finder

[webfork]

Highlighted over at ghacks
http://www.ghacks.net/2015/10/22/dupegu ... le-finder/

Status: not portable: writes settings to AppData\Local\Hardcoded Software and HKU\..\Software\dupeGuru

License: GPL v3

Home: http://www.hardcoded.net/dupeguru/

EDIT: Note that newer versions are 64-bit only. The 32-bit Windows version appears frozen at v3.8.0.

[webfork]

Feature request for portability: https://github.com/hsoft/dupeguru/issues/336

[shnbwmn]

For an application of this type, does it matter that it writes its settings to AppData? Typical one would load up some directories and change settings on-the-fly. There really is no need to store settings at all (at least, in my opinion).

[webfork]

does it matter that it writes its settings to AppData?

If the settings are incidental or unimportant, that’s fine but DupeGuru is fairly intelligent (and getting smarter). There’s a mutual relationship that - as tools get more intelligent and more configurable - they also get more annoying to go back in and change the settings to what you like.

Anyway I think there's enough settings to modify here that it's important:



... especially if you start digging into custom commands and regular expressions.

[shnbwmn]

Fair enough.

[webfork]

Fair enough.

It's definitely worth asking. Duplicate-finder programs are generally pretty straightforward so I can see it getting past the usual hesitation.

[webfork]

The program is now 64-bit only. New website (and maintainer): https://dupeguru.voltaicideas.net/ ... currently at 4.0.3.

No response so far to the portability request: https://github.com/hsoft/dupeguru/issues/336 , though that could be due to a new maintainer.

Very warm review of the program: https://lifehacker.com/the-best-duplica ... 1696492476

[olliebean]

This program, now at v4.3.1, has had portable Windows versions (both 32- and 64-bit) since v4.2.2. The zips are downloadable from the Releases page at https://github.com/arsenetar/dupeguru/releases.