Bytessence DuplicateFinder (v1.3, 07Oct2011)

[Inf0Byt3]

Version 1.2 released. Here is the list of changes:

- The program now writes an UTF8 BOM in the file when exporting the duplicate list
- Corrected a translation string
- The program jumps to the second page after pressing 'New scan'
- If a CHM file can't be found the user will be notified and BDF will use the English help
- Fixed the 'Translation author' field (Settings dialog) not showing correct information
- Added the German translation and help file in the package (thanks to Vera)

Here's a tip!

If you are able to detect if the two files to be compared are on different devices. (two different HD's or DVD and HD etc.)
Then you could just do a byte compare as that should be slightly faster than doing CRC32 + bytecompare, as CRC32 reads every byte anyway.

However if the files are on the same device then doing CRC32 is faster as you do sequential read of one file then sequential of the other obviously.

Another tip is that you could also do CRC32 using two threads and use large filebuffers.

Interesting ideas, these should speed up the processing. I'll try to implement them in one of the future versions. One thing that i'll probably need help with is the threaded CRC32 as I don't have too much experience in writing multithreaded code.

[Inf0Byt3]

Version 1.3 of BDF has been released .

Here is the changelog for this version:

-Added possibility to resize the main window of the program
-Added capability to search for files in the duplicate list
-Added system icons for the files in the duplicate list
-Added a new selection mode for the selection manager
-Added update searching capability
-Added possibility to delete the duplicate files directly
-Fixed progress indicator not resetting when scanning two times in a row
-Fixed selection manager not selecting the right files in some cases
-Updated the License file
-Updated Help files
-Updated the icon file of the program
-Various other small fixes and tweaks

P.S. @Michael Vogel, thanks for helping me update the German translation.

You can find the download links on the first page of this topic.