Find & Trash Clone Files Or Replace With Symbolic / Hard Links Using Fequal
Even though many of us now use our smartphones and tablets for common tasks like exchanging emails or surfing the web, desktop and laptop PCs still have the edge when it comes to dealing with large amounts of information. Most importantly, it's the huge variety of very elaborate and powerful applications available for PCs that make them so great. Fequal is a handy desktop application for Windows that allows you to find identical files on your system. It also allows you to swiftly remove duplicates from your hard disk with a click, and even replace them with shortcuts, symbolic links or hard links to the copies that you're keeping. If you’re not sure what symlinks or hard links are, they are basically pointers registered on the file system to a specified location. Unlike shortcuts, symbolic links do not take your precious disk space, but are treated as files by programs.
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