Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Duplicate File Management

I'm looking for something (that may not exist yet) wich will:

1. Search NTFS drives
2. Find duplicate files
3. Delete all but one
4. Leave shortcut markers in place of the files, pointing to the single file
5. If someone were to click the shortcut, they get a copy of the file. Once the copy is changed, the user gets to keep the changed file.

I know of something similar that works with Exchange... but haven't seen anything for other file types.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Waco, I don't think this is going to be the real answer, but maybe it will lead to one. Check out Moonwalk, http://moonwalkinc.com/. They have ways of manipulating files and leaving stubs behind. I don't think they actually search for duplicates, however.

Waco Muse said...

It's a good place to start, Tony. I found out that Moonwalk has partnered with EMC (http://www.moonwalkinc.com/EMC-family).

I’ll be calling them to set up a demo if possible.