Find duplicates fast
It's amazing how quickly your hard drive can get filled with duplicated files and folders. Chipmunk will help you clean up your Mac and rid it of any duplicate files.
The application displays files in an intuitive way, linking folders together in a graph style view which may look odd at first but you soon get used to it. Instead of simply looking for files with a similar name or creation date, Chipmunk goes further and finds folders that include identical content. Once you've found a duplicate you can choose to simply remove it or keep it with a click of the mouse.
Most recently, Chipmunk has included a useful Quickview feature so that you can preview duplicates and there's much better integration with Finder. Searches are very fast and the results are returned by default in order of file size so you can see which files are occupying the most space first. The only thing that is lacking is any way to customize the results to your liking.
Chipmunk helps you find folders that have the same content quickly thanks to an original graph view.
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User reviews about Chipmunk
by Anonymous
More for techs than mums, but a great app none the less.
This is less user friendly than some people expect BUT is very useful for techs like myself who understand directory structures etc. It not only finds duplicates, but then allows easy mass removal of duplicates from specific folders or disks. Once you understand what you're looking at, it is very useful. My mum couldn't use it, but I need functionality like this (rather than pretty icons with less functionality).
Pros:
The ability to find and remove duplicates en mass from specific folders.
Cons:
The instructions could probably be clearer More
by Anonymous
A waste of time, thanks to the high praise it received in MacWorld..
A huge disappointment. I think I may have gotten it to work ONCE, but that was it. A waste of money. Yes, and this was recommended - RECOMMENDED - by Apple/Macworld More
by Anonymous
Wish I'd read Captron's comment before downloading.
Wow. downloaded the trial, let it scan my drive for about half an hour, then got to watch it do absolutely nothing.I must say, as trial versions go, this is a humdinger. I've got Mac OS X 10.4.11. Is part of the features that aren't available for 10.4.11 the features that actually make it useful? Because of downloaded the PC version or Bejeweled Blitz 3 and gotten the same results. Big thumbs down.And this from the Mac OS Software link in the Apple menu. Embarrassing.
Pros:
There may be many, I didn't see any. It scanned and "compared" (to what I don't know as there wasn't any activity window) for nearly half an hour and then did nothing and displayed nothing. If there were any duplicates (which I know there must be many) it showed absolutely none. When I clicked on the Help link, it crashed the program and I haven't bothered to re-open it.
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There was absolutely no indication that this program would suck. More
by Nick Mead
Re: Trial Version - I Don't Get It.
The trial version will only find duplicates but it won't delete them for you. Also, note that Chipmunk works on Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later, though some features are only available when running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard or Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
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by Anonymous
Trial Version - I Don't Get It.
I downloaded and installed the trial version. It did a scan but nothing else! Did I miss something? What is the supposed benefit of the trial?Now I'm getting a prompt that says my opinion is too short! If that isn't prophetic! More