

Good thing the programmers aren't taking it lying down! For example, there's AllDup from Michael Thummerer Software Design.

Today, duplicate files are more like stubborn body fat, your PC's "love handles": Not exactly welcome, but too much trouble to remove. Programmers responded with duplicate file finders, which had a bad habit of misidentifying duplicates. Back when disk drives were huge in size yet minuscule in capacity, duplicate files were like coronary blockages, a growing problem that could crash the system at any time.
