One of the biggest problems of every computer user is the piling up of junk in their system. This happens due to many factors, and the creation of duplicate files is one of them. Duplicate files decrease the performance of a system drastically. They aren’t created by the user intentionally, but nevertheless, they will clutter the hard drive and cause disorganization of data without the user even knowing about them.
Luckily enough, some genius people have worked endlessly to come up with unique state-of-the-art methods that make scanning for and getting rid of duplicate data of all kinds a very straightforward matter. So let’s jump into some detail of the mechanism that is employed to scan for duplicates and then we shall move on to a genius solution of its own kind. But let’s just introduce it to you before we go into more details. Clone Files Checker is its name, and its job is to go after those pesky duplicates on Windows as well as Mac systems!
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Why Use MD5 Check to find Duplicate Files?
The history of MD5 starts from 1991 when the systems had already been upgraded to 128-bit data transfer rates and a security feature that could encrypt 128-bit data slot was very much needed. MD5 was initially used for cryptographic purposes only, but the discovery of several vulnerabilities meant it was put out of service soon after. However, the algorithm is still used to verify the authenticity of a file, and to know if it has been through an event of data corruption.
The benefits of MD5 check over other cryptic algorithms is that it can be implemented faster than the other cryptic algorithms and provides an impressive performance increase for verifying data in comparison with SHA1, SHA2 and SHA3 cryptic software.
However, MD5 is vulnerable to collision resistance. But, the good point is that in finding duplicate files, collision resistance is not really an issue. Collision resistance refers to two inputs providing the same outputs when hashed. But
A good MD5 hash program will work in unison with the file size, type, and the last byte value. This is because it is common for various parameters of some files to be similar/ identical/ different (size, name etc) but the hash value will always be the same (provided these files are duplicates). This absolutely does away with the chances of deleting a file which isn’t a duplicate while cleaning up duplicate data. Therefore, MD5 is a huge blessing while on the lookout for duplicates.
Now let’s take a brief look at a software that uses MD5 to weed out duplicates swiftly and accurately.
Clone Files Checker
This software is simply put, a death sentence for duplicate data. Be it duplicate data of any kind, located on your local computer, external hard drive or even your cloud account, this software will dive into great details and make exceptional use of MD5 Check to bring up a list of all the duplicate data that had eaten into your previous hard drive and was beginning to slow down your system.
From then onwards, it is pretty simple for you to choose between deleting the duplicates permanently or moving them to a separate folder. But it is all due to the goodness offered by MD5 Check and the genius brains behind Clone Files Checker that you can be assured to a swift and accurate scan that will help free up a big quantum of your hard drive.