Re: Find identical files

[Daniel Naber <list2006 danielnaber de>]

On Monday 12 February 2007 21:41, Joe Shaw wrote:

> There's no way to do this right now, but it's a good idea.  We don't do
> anything with md5sums right now because that's an expensive operation
> that can take quite a while on large files.

Java Lucene actually has a similarity search in its "contrib" section. It 
doesn't only find duplicates but also similar files which might also be 
useful. I don't know if this has been ported to .NET.

Regards
 Daniel

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