I made A.S.H. to allow you to control your disk space usage by discovering files that are duplicated and if you wish, deleting or archiving one or more of these duplicates.
A.S.H. also offers a visual directory explorer, that is a set of charts representing your drives and directories with alot of usefull information about space wasted, large directories, file size statistics, creation, update and access date.
Now A.S.H. is more than a duplicate file searcher. It offers usefull information about your disk usage and the price is low, you can use it as a disk cleaner, but also as a nice tool to understand how your disk space is used.
There are many ways in which duplicate files can be left on your hard disk, for example programs which don't check to see if you have a particular DLL installed and install their own private copy just in case, or other programs that install a DLL in your \Windows directory when it is already in \Windows\System.
Internet is another great duplicates producer, because of the cache directories and also becouse all of us collect graphical, text and zip files around.
A.S.H. scans your drives to find duplicate files. First it scans all the directories and collects information about the files it finds, than it sorts the file list by size and checks for duplicates.
To ensure files are really duplicates A.S.H. can use a CRC32 algorithm over the whole file.
A.S.H. makes also a file name comparison and creates a list of same name files, so you can check if there are different version of the same DLL or file.
A.S.H. provides also other usefull
information and hints, such as:
You have the ability to delete files from A.S.H. itself (move to Recycle bin), but be warned, you take sole responsibility if you choose to delete a file because A.S.H. makes no attempt to check if the file is in use or key to the functioning of your computer.
Generally:
So you have also the option to archive the files in a special Ash Tray directory from where you can restore files to their initial location.
A.S.H. is a very powerfull and easy to use utility, but like most powerfull utilities, it allows you to cause lots of damage, so use it carefully.
Even if you don't use A.S.H. to delete duplicate files, you can take advantage of it using the visual space explorer or the other features (i.e. you can use A.S.H. to plan your partition size before you migrate to a new hard disk and more....).
A.S.H. give you also information about wasted space. If you are using old FAT32 disks and you have big partitions and your drive is not compressed then you are surely wasting a lot of space because of cluster space waste. A.S.H. gives you information about this problem also.
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