Re: Check folder for duplicate files

"Co" <vonclausowitz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1187112810.989536.322340@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I need a code to check a folder on my HDD for duplicate files.

.. . . just to expand on what I said in my previous post (which seems a little ambiguous now that I've looked at it again), if you discover a file called test1.doc and another file called test1.pdf they may in fact represent two totally different documents, regardless of the fact that their names happen to be the same. Also, checking the actual file contents will not produce any meaningful result because they will be completety different. Furthermore, it is possible to produce dozens of completely different pdf files each of which represents the same original doc file. So finding two such files, regardless of whether or not you also analyse their contents, will not tell you whether they represent the same document or not. The same sort of thing goes for other types of file. For example, a file called test1.bmp may represent the same image as another file called test1.jpg, or it may not. Furthermore, you could not even deliberately create a jpg file from the bmp file in order to check to see whether the resultant jpg is the same as the "test" jpg, because any specific bmp data can produce dozens of completely different jpg data files, depending on the compressions settings and the algorithm used and all sorts of things.

Mike


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