Smart Duplicate Finder 1.6

About Smart Duplicate Finder

Finds duplicate files by content (MD5) and visually similar photos (perceptual
hash), including the iPhone HEIC and AVIF formats that Windows itself often
cannot open. Two-phase scan with a guided candidate dialog and per-family time
estimates. Results are colour-grouped by file family with a colour-coded Excel
report, so you can clean up at your own pace. Right-click a result to open the
file, open its folder or copy its path - opening is deliberately disabled for
executable files. By design the program never deletes
your files - the only optional deletion is invisible system junk
(Thumbs.db, .DS_Store) verified by content signature before removal.
The report also says which copy is most likely the original and, just as
importantly, WHY - reading what the files say about themselves through their
names, folders and dates ("the others are named as copies", "the others sit
deeper in folders"). Where nothing tells them apart it says so plainly
instead of guessing. A side effect worth mentioning: on a Python virtual
environment the rule reliably picks the real package over pip's vendored
copy of it.
Proven on a three-million-file endurance exam: a report larger than Excel's
row limit is now split into numbered files instead of being silently
truncated, and pathological same-name piles no longer stall the scan.
One exe for all UI languages (English, Lithuanian, Russian and German,
switchable in-app, first run follows the Windows language). Optional portable
mode keeps all working files next to the exe and leaves no traces on the
computer.
Portable single exe: no installation, no ads, no telemetry, no network access.