Duplicate files on my hard drive

?from your link. Even Windows. How about that!
From the link:
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Peter, Have you tested this? How good is it?
What does MacWorld have to say concerning this software?

Why use it it in the first place??

Does this program get rid of duplicate files that Grim was concerned about?
Interesting.

-Kevin

I will definitely try this and let you know how it works.

I have never been the most organized (I would send you pictures of my desk and studio but can't find them ). Found out a long time ago that shelves instead of filing cabinets work best for me... once something is out of sight it's definitely out of mind. I work best using a GUI of folders rather than the view list mode. As Kevin might say... "strange".

The computer for art and photography is both a boon and a dilemma. A versatile machine that allows you to create fluid creations that would be next to impossible without years of skill and much equipment... yet the same tool demands rigid organizational skills to keep track of your work. What a dichotomy! I wonder if there are studies about how graphic artists interact with their computers and if they do it much differently from, say an engineer or a secretary doing office work?

I will try this out and get back to you all this weekend...

Thank you very much to Peter, Kevin, and anyone else who might want to post further about their own experiences in keeping track of stuff on their Hard Drives.

grim

Grim, You are not alone. I loose track of where the heck I filed it also.
Spotlight seems to find it quickly. That's if I named it correctly in the first place.
Were you able to use Spotlight and view duplicate files?
I am starting to use Spotlight more often.
Thanks Grim,

-kevin

Do you think spotlight would serve much the same function as the chronosynce program I'm looking at right now?

I could spend the thirty bucks on the OS upgrade if it would be better.

Hmmm. I guess I will have to consider this more closely.

grim

We seems to be moving off track on this one, I thought your problem was deciding which file was the most up to date one from a pile of duplicate files. Spotlight is a index and metadata based search tool that will find stuff like you wouldn't believe. It will even find stuff within stuff.
All it will do for you is find any files with a specific name, quickly.

Now, as you have not moved towards Tiger, you can use that good old standby Apple + "F", enter the filename and off it will go and find your files for you. Certainly not as fast as Spotlight but what the heck.
It will probably allow you to sort the found files into some sort of order but it will almost certainly use the Modified date as a sort tool. Spotlight will also do that.
The program that I emailed you about, does not use that date. There is another date that it uses to decide which one is the newer file. It looks at the last time it was saved, I think, which would make more sense than the Modified date.

Try the Apple + F and see what happens.

P