CloneSpy v1.51 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Application to find and delete duplicate files. For Windows 95/98/ME/NT4.0/2000/XP. Why was CloneSpy written? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Do you often download files from the Internet? Is your hard drive crowded with these files? Have you ever asked yourself which files you have downloaded more than once? Perhaps you already burned files to a CD and retrieved them again? Do you want to find these files and eliminate the duplicates? Maybe you want to find duplicate files without checking your entire backup CDs every time? Then CloneSpy is the right tool for you! What can CloneSpy do? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CloneSpy can help you free up hard drive space by detecting and removing duplicate files. Duplicate files can have exactly the same contents regardless of their name, date, time and location. Also, CloneSpy is able to find files that are not exactly identical, but have the same filename. Perhaps you have different versions of a file and you want to find all of them and remove the older versions. CloneSpy can also find zero length files. These are files that have no content. With CloneSpy you can process files which - are duplicates - have the same file name - are duplicates and have the same file name - are zero bytes long CloneSpy offers you a complete mechanism to determine which duplicate or same-name files should be deleted. It is also possible to leave this decision up to the user. With CloneSpy you can build checksum files from files on CDs (or even on hard drives, etc.) and use them to check if you have these files already on your system. The checksum files will prevent you from playing DJ every time you search for duplicates. Installation ~~~~~~~~~~~~ CloneSpy v1.51 does not need to be installed. Just create a new folder and copy all files from the CloneSpy archive to the new folder. After starting CloneSpy the first time take a look at the help file. Release History ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Version 1.51 (30.03.2002) Fixed: While using the "Enhance logging" option a window showing "sdfgsdg" was displayed every time a file was deleted. Fixed: CloneSpy crashed on some systems (e.g. Windows 98) when the duplicate display window was closed for the first time ("Ask which to delete" mode). Version 1.5 (24.03.2002) Added: CSC-files can now be viewed by opening them from the File menu. Added: a new option concerning the data written to the log file. It is now possible to log not only the deleted files, but also the corresponding retained files. Added: a new option that allows CloneSpy to replace a duplicate file by a shortcut to a corresponding retained file. Fixed: the "creeping window" effect of the duplicate window which appeared when the Windows taskbar was at the top or on the left of the screen. Fixed: when scanning for duplicates with same name while using both pools all duplicates will now be found. Fixed: when scanning for duplicates and using the "Override delete selection" option, the program sometimes crashed. Fixed: pressing return in the main window will not close the program any more. Fixed: the "ignore folders" option did not function properly if a folder added to a pool already contained a folder name to ignore. Version 1.41 (28.12.2001) Added: a new button in the duplicate display window to skip all displayed files. Fixed: pressing the return key in duplicate display window will not mess up the displayed duplicates any more. Fixed: chicken delete did not function properly under Windows ME. It now also works under Windows XP. Version 1.4 (16.12.2001) Added: a new option concerning chicken delete (Deletion tab): - Choose to move files and also retain the folder structure in the chicken folder - Choose to move only the files to the specified chicken folder Added: a new entry to the settings menu named Automation: - Choose to load a specified settings file on program start - Choose to save all settings to a specified settings file on program end Added: if files are compared to files from a CSC-file, deletion on user selection is now possible. Therefore the structure of the CSC-files changes. Added: duplicates displayed for user selection can now be executed and explored. Added: checksum files are now viewable by double clicking on them in the CSC-frame. Modified: much of the code has been rewritten in order to represent duplicates in lists. This has also resulted in considerable speed improvements. Modified: hidden files and system files are no longer scanned by default (see options). Modified: an empty chicken folder will now be deleted after a scan. Modified: bigger files are now checked first in order to free disk space faster. Modified: the option "Ignore folders" (Folders tab) now accepts masks for specifying folder names to ignore (see options). Modified: folder restrictions are now also applied to files imported from CSC-files. The restrictions concern the original location of the files. Fixed: zero byte files are now scanned correctly. Fixed: when the user selects files to delete, the "override delete selection" is now deactivated. Fixed: the option "Deletion of read-only files" (Attributes tab) now works correctly (see options). Fixed: when doing chicken delete the read-only flags of moved files are no longer removed. Version 1.3 (02.09.2001) Added: a new tab (Misc) to the Options: - Choose if a file access problem that can be ignored should not be displayed to the user. The file will be skipped automatically Added: a new tab (Folders) to the Options: - Specify by name folders that should not be scanned Added: a new tab (Time + Size) to the Options: - Choose which time and date a file must have to be scanned - Choose which size a file must be to be scanned Modified: merged counting files and generating compare list. CloneSpy acquires files faster now, especially when used on a LAN. Fixed: not all filename comparisons were case insensitive. When files with same names are searched now, all pairs of them should be found. Fixed: file access errors should now be displayed fully in English. Fixed: when scanning for duplicates with same name and using a single pool, some duplicates were not found. Fixed: when doing a chicken delete and using the recycle bin an additional copy of every moved file was placed in the recycle bin. Fixed: after the "scanning read-only files" check box in the options was clicked, the cancel button did not function properly. Fixed: when scanning for duplicates and using both pools, the cancel button had no effect while generating checksums. Fixed: when scanning for duplicates and using a CSC-file, the program sometimes crashed while generating checksums. Version 1.2 (28.07.2001) Added: just one more option: CloneSpy will now be able to delete a folder if the last file in this folder was deleted by it. Modified: the options window now has a tab control to present the options. Modified: rearranged the menu bar. It should now look more like a menu bar rather than a row of push buttons. Fixed: a bug in CloneSpy when used under Windows 95/98 leading to an incomplete scan. This resulted in whole drives not being scanned at all. Version 1.11 (09.07.2001) Fixed: files imported from a CSC-file will now be correctly filtered by attributes chosen in the options menu. Version 1.1 (08.07.2001) Added: options menu in main window: - Choose if recycle bin should be used - Choose if files with special attributes should be scanned - Choose how to handle duplicate read-only files Added: settings menu in main window: - Load all settings from the options menu and the main window - Save all settings from the options menu and the main window - Restore default settings Added: 3 new buttons in the Overide-delete-selection frame and in the Restrict-to-files-or-file-patterns frame: - Clear file mask list - Import file masks from save file - Save file mask list Added: buttons in the main window now have small icons. Added: delete selection dialog will now show file attributes. Added: a sound is played when CloneSpy has finished scanning or generating a CSC-file. Fixed: pressing the return key in the main window will not close CloneSpy any more. Version 1.0 (24.06.2001) First release of CloneSpy. _______________________ http://www.clonespy.com