CISDEM Duplicate Finder is a great tool to delete duplicates from your computer and other storage mediums. It supports more than 200 file types.
Here is an alternative. It is called Clone Files Checker. It checks for duplicates based on the content of files, and is worth giving a try.
Use Clone Files Checker to Delete Duplicates with ease and speed
Clone Files Checker follows Google Software Principles
Much like any other duplicate finder, you can scan multiple folders and drives at once. If you don’t want to scan any folders for duplicates, just exclude them from the scan.
Other Features:
- You can either scan all file types for duplicates, or only file types of your choice.
- CISDEM Duplicate Finder compares your files by analyzing their content.
- CISDEM Duplicate Finder automatically excludes any important operating system folders.
- The program supports multiple world languages including French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, etc.
- You can either delete duplicate files permanently or move them to the Recycle Bin.
Clone Files Checker – CISDEM Duplicate Finder Alternative
Clone Files Checker is considered one of the closest alternatives to CISDEM Duplicate Finder. CFC can find duplicate documents, photos, music, videos and archives. You can also add certain folders to exclude them from the scan.
CFC offers various hashing methods including CRC32, MD5 and SHA1. To protect your system files from accidental deletion, it automatically skips system files, hidden objects. Recycle Bin contents are also skipped by default, although you can change the behavior.
Compatible with Map Drives
CFC also supports scanning files from network drives. If you’ve got a mapped drive or a NAS, you can run a full scan using CFC and get rid of duplicates that are wasting the storage space. Please note that a system reboot is required after you activate this feature from the program settings.
File Backup
When the file backup is activated, CFC takes a backup of the file before deletion. This can be a handy feature if you ever need to restore an accidentally deleted duplicate file. The backups are compressed to take less space.
Music Search
Clone Files Checker is not a general-purpose duplicate finder. It has the capabilities to perform specialized scans such as music search. You can search for music by different tags such as title, artist, album, track, duration, bit rate and file content.
iTunes Search
Do you have iTunes installed? Now you can search your iTunes media library for duplication using CFC’s iTunes Search. You can check music tags of your choice (title, artist, album, track, duration, bit rate and file content) to compare files.
Empty Folders Remover
You can use CFC to scan for empty folders on your hard disk and remove them.
Remove Dead Tracks
Your iTunes library may contain tracks that can’t be played due to missing media files. The easiest way to identify such tracks is an exclamation mark in front of their icons. You’ll often get the File not found error while trying to play such tracks. CFC can find and automatically remove such dead tracks to get rid of the clutter.
| CISDEM Duplicate Finder | Clone Files Checker | |
| User Interface | Very basic | Easy, intuitive and professional user interface The interface is split in two parts- scan settings and scan results |
| Exclude folders from scan | Yes | Yes |
| Scan methods | Scan files by name and content | Scan files by content |
| Minimum & maximum file size limits | Yes | Yes |
| Exclude files by their types | Yes | Yes |
| Exclude system hidden files and folders | Yes | Yes |
| Drag & drop interface | Yes | No |
| File previews | Yes | Yes |
| Full screen supported | No | Yes |
| Export results to .CSV | No | Yes |
| Group duplicate files | Vertical grouping | Files grouping in list box for easy reviewing |
| Filter file types in the results window | Yes | Yes |
| Search files by name, size, count & type | Yes | No |
| Find similar images (Fuzzy-matching comparison of images) | Yes | No |
| Fix Wizard (Delete duplicates in 3-steps with a simple wizard) | No | Yes |
| Review & Fix | Yes | Yes |
| File selection patterns | Select newest files in each groupSelect oldest files in each groupSelect files by nameSelect files by location | Retain newest file in each groupRetain oldest file in each groupRetain most modified file in each groupRetain least modified file in each groupSelect files by locationUnselect all |
| Supported actions | Move to Recycle BinDelete permanentlyMove to folder | Delete permanentlyDelete permanently (with backup)Move to Folder |
| View scan history incl. scan time, files list, action taken, etc. | No | Yes |
| Automated backups before deletion | No | Yes (if activated from the program settings) |
| Restore deleted duplicate files | No | Yes |
| Delete empty folders | No | Yes |
| Remove dead tracks | No | Yes |
| iTunes Search (Scan iTunes media for duplication) | No | Yes. Supports scanning iTunes media using different tags such as title, artist, album, track, duration, bit rate and file content |
| Music Search | No | Yes. Supports scanning music using different tags such as title, artist, album, track, duration, bit rate and file content |
| Scan duplicates on cloud services (such as OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon S3, Box Cloud, etc) | No | Yes |
| Uses official APIs to safely connect to your cloud accounts to find & delete duplicates | Not applicable | Yes |
| Video tutorials | No | Yes |
| Email support | Yes | Yes |
| Chat support | No | Yes (Limited through Facebook chat only) |
| Pricing | $29.99 for 1 PC$44.99 for 2 PCs$82.99 for 5 PCs | $39.97 for 1 PC$49.97 for 3 PCs$69.97 for 10 PCs |
| Compatibility | Windows and Mac | Windows and Mac |
| Updates | Lifetime free updates | Unlimited free updates until subscription expires |
| Refund Policy | 30-Days Money Back (Refunds are provided only if there are technical issues with the product and the CISDEM Team is unable to resolve them, according to the Refund Policy) | 60-Days Money Back Guarantee |