Decloner is a duplicate finder for Mac computers that provides you with a simple way to clean up your media library of file copies and reclaim disk space on your Mac. The application brings you an efficient duplicate detection engine, provides you with results in a few moments, and auto-selects the unnecessary file copies for deletion.
All you need to do in order to work with this Mac tool is to select the folder you wish to scan for duplicates and wait for the results. Once the scanning process is complete, the application provides you with a list containing the duplicates and their corresponding original file.
One of the changes made to this app release is the renaming of the built-in Trash utility to Staging Area. Therefore, you will now move the unnecessary file copies to Staging Area from where you can either permanently delete them from your Mac or send them back to the results window.
Another good aspect about Decloner is the fact that it offers you various filters to organize the found duplicates and help you decide which of the file copies need to be removed from your Mac.
To sum things up, Decloner proves to be a smart addition to my collection of programs. This application provides you with an accurate duplicates search, brings you a comprehensive help guide, and comes at a fair price.
v1.6 [Oct 18, 2014]
- New faster duplicate detection engine
- New Counting and Processing interface
- Elapsed and approximate remaining time is now displayed during file processing
- The Add button menu now shows a list of five recent locations for easier addition
- Scan location ranking: files in groups are now automatically sorted so that the higher the file's containing folder is located in the list of scan locations, the higher the file is ranked in a duplicate group
- Scan location reordering using drag-and-drop or keyboard shortcuts
- Whenever scan locations are reordered, files in duplicate groups are automatically reordered accordingly
- Auto-selection of duplicates has been redesigned so that files in groups are always sorted automatically in such a way that the top file is preferred to be left alone and the rest of the files are selected
- The list of duplicates is no longer expanded automatically. Use View → Expand All or press ⌘→
- Expanded groups now keep their state after restarting Decloner
- The preferred file in each group is now shown in green color
- New preference to keep Old or New files when auto-selecting duplicates
- It is now not possible to sort by the Name column anymore because of improved automatic duplicate ranking and selection
- Removed automatic preference of Aperture library images over iPhoto library images over ordinary files; reorder scan location to tell Decloner which files should be preferred when autoselecting duplicates
- When a scan location is removed, the files contained in it are also removed from the list of results
- The individual file size column is back, together with the option to sort groups of duplicates by the size of individual files in the group
- Added Creation Time column
- The process of displaying files in the list is now much faster
- Files and groups can now be deleted by pressing the Delete button
- After deleting files and groups the selection moves in a more sensible and predictable manner
- Decloner Trash has been renamed to Staging Area where files are staged for removal
- Number of files and the individual file size are now shown in groups' File Size column
- Improved accessibility, now much easier to use with VoiceOver
- HockeyApp is now used for crash reporting
- New feedback menu item.
