Some of these tools are really powerful, like Duplicate Searcher and CloneSpy, but the caveat is their dated interface and the requirement for manual work. While these are free, others like XYplorer and Duplicate Detective offer a much more seamless and hassle-free interface and operation at the expense of costing you big bucks. In the end, since almost all the paid solutions offer a free trial or demo, we recommend giving these a try yourself and see which one works best for you. And drop us a comment if you have further recommendations or feedback.

In addition, it also includes image file creation capacity, providing the user with the ability to recover lost data from a byte-to-byte clone version of the device/partition, without having to risk the original storage source. In addition to that, multiple extra tools, like Duplicate File Finder, or Emergency Recovery Boot Drive, are available for free. Disk Drill in a popular publication The user interface is very friendly, and the Pro version includes an effective support service and a lifetime-upgrade option that covers every new version. Disk Drill successfully manages the balance of essential and advanced features for the casual, professional and enterprise users alike, that makes it worth the money spent on the upgrade. There’s something in Disk Drill that even forensic experts and law enforcements organizations will find useful. PhotoRec is not the most powerful free Mac data recovery tool, but it has the advantage of being open source. Facebook badge. This basically means that not only the application, but also the source code is available to the public. Office 2016 for mac os sierra.

Of course, we can do a standard search using search my files, then sort the list by name or size to find the similar files, apparently it is awkward. I used to use double killer till it started to have problem with my vista. It is a nice one but as the development stops at 2007, I am not sure it works with win7 and later windows, especially 64 bit system. Download.com indicates it supports up to vista, while softonic thinks it supports up to xp. Although this category title focuses on the *removal* of duplicate files, the current reviews would be better described as being for a Duplicate File 'Finder' category.

Those options may include, for instance, scanning by folder or drive, searching specific apps like Photos for Mac, including/excluding specific file types during a scan, setting the desired file type/size/time, etc. How customized are the searching methods? This varies by software.