![]() I'm done.It’s common knowledge that cars require maintenance to stay in good working order. I only post this for the benefit of newcomers. It is known to us expert regulars on the forum that no contents comparison is being done. Luckily the above user had a backup from which to restore.Īnd not only that I ran the finder and it reported 8 DESKTOP.INI files as being the same, but in reality are different. Typically a user that has advanced enough on their own will sooner or later seek out a dupe remover utility and be quite aware of the pitfalls and dangers associated with it. And all the while unwittingly castrating a working o/s file-by-file. It will do no good (and plenty of bad) to have novices getting click-happy in the dupefinder area thinking they're freeing up tons of space. This methodology will instill a false confidence in newcomers and the result is anything from a few missing icons to BSOD requiring a restore operation and a bad taste against Piriform. People will need to be informed and instructed that operating a duplicate finder and remover program is an operation that requires 100% manual review and knowledge of precisely what is being removed.Įspecially considering that the rest of CCleaner is "automated" and has "safe" default settings which work correctly. He would also need to avoid hash checksum validation. If the user can uncheck the "size" box to see if he has more than one quality of an MP4 download, I think SHA-512 is valuable to defeat skilled malware creators who can infect a download and manipulate its MD5 hash checksum.īut SHA-512 could be overkill for simply deciding whether the user has duplicated a download,Ĭhecksum validation should have a separate check box. I agree with other commentators that a checksum must be available to determine if files with the same name are really the same. It is essential that all reparse-points and hard-links be excluded from any list of "duplicates". Therefore if Reparse Points provide alternative Reality and Illusion paths the removal of either duplicate could destroy both. It is worth noting that partitions other than C:\ are commonly used for valuable libraries and archives,Īnd are not always protected as being hidden or system or Read Only, ![]() If I additionally uncheck the "File Size Under" box it takes much longer to search and produces many results. ![]() I searched C:\ for qmgr1.dat using Defraggler version 2.13.ĭepending upon Access Control Levels which Windows can fumble and users can meddle with,ĭeleting either the real deal file or the counterfeit shadow could destroy both reality and illusion. Many of these appear to be some sort of reparse point, e.g.Ĭ:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Network\Downloader\qmgr1.datĬ:\Users\All Users\Microsoft\Network\Downloader\qmgr1.datīoth instances are seen by Windows EXplorer asĤ.00 MB (4,194,304 bytes) Modified 27 March 2013, 11:51:11 Unfortunately some users will blindly trust CCleaner's actions regardless,Īnd will Wipe Free space because they think it will give more free space.īy unchecking System and Read Only and Hidden check-boxes another 9 pairs. It appears to me that removing such duplicates could have significant consequences. When I deselect all drives other than C:\ the default result isġ5 pairs are very important to Comodo Internet Security suite and hopefully that is self-protecting.Ĥ pairs are very important to actually booting up Windows 7 :-ģ pairs are C:\boot\.\fonts\?_boot.ttf I have now looked at duplicates in general. Previously I only looked at WinSXS / System32 hard-link problems
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