Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv — Message #63658
From: Chris Zwar <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Subject: [OT] software to consolidate / clean up files
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 13:16:43 +1100
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Hi all,

Looking for recommendations for file management software, the sort of thing that can scan a drive / folder and find duplicates etc.  
It sounds so simple and there seem to be 1000 apps out there that claim to do it, but our IT guy said he’d tried several and none of them were good enough to recommend.

Main purpose is to try and organise / optimise projects before they are archived.  In some cases, mostly when we outsource to 3rd parties but also when a project is started in the office but then completed on-site, we can end up with 3 or 4 project folders with varying degrees of duplicate files.  Sometimes projects can be terabytes in size.  

The idea is to copy everything to a single folder for archiving and avoid duplicates, but also ensure we aren’t overwriting newer versions of files with older versions.

So obviously it’s easy to google for this and there’s no shortage of apps out there that CLAIM to do it, but can anyone recommend one that’s good?

-Chris

(PS- looking for both Mac and Windows recommednations)
 
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