Duplicate Files Search & Link is a portable freeware app designed to quickly search out duplicate files, NTFS hard links, and any symbolic links to the same file.

Duplicate Files Search & Link will search all duplicate file contents regardless of the file name (an accurate byte-to-byte comparison is used). It will then permit you to delete the found duplicate files or move them to another location and replace duplicates with NTFS hard links or symbolic links.

Duplicate Files Search & Link's main difference compared to other similar applications is its ability to operate NTFS links. An NTFS hard link is the file system representation of a file by which more than one path can refer to a single file in the same volume. NTFS hard links allow several files to share the same space on the disk (the same file). For example, several applications can use NTFS links to the same library version instead of using different library files. If several hard links point to one file, deleting any hard links doesn't cause the deletion of the file and frees disk space until the last hard link to the file is deleted.

Duplicate Files Search & Link Features:

Fast search engine (byte-to-byte comparison and hard/symbolic link detection algorithm are used)

Detailed visualization of duplicate files, NTFS hard links, junction points, and symbolic links

Shows fragmentation of files

Shows compressed NTFS files in color

Manual and filtered selection files to delete, move or replace with NTFS hard links

Allows moving and deleting files

Allows replacing files with NTFS hard links

Allows replacing files with NTFS symbolic links

Allows compressing files on NTFS volumes

Allows selecting disks and folders to scan

Supports long paths (paths longer than 260 characters)

Allows saving/loading results

Supports alternate NTFS-streams

Supports checking NTFS-permissions compatibility for the files being replaced by hard links

Supports ignoring differences in MP3-files metadata (ID3-tags) and comparing the music MP3-content only (experimental)

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