Kifkif is a new Open Source Localizable Tool for finding out all duplicates of either Files and Folders.
It is designed so that it can be used in different ways:

• As an Extensible Duplicates Finding Library to include in any other project or application
• As a Console Application (Unix command like)
• As a Windowed GUI Application (GUI Front end)

Main Features

• Find File Duplicates
• Find Hole Folder Duplicates
• Automatic / Interactive Duplicates Removal
• Localization Support : Arabic, English, French and Italian
• Extensible Library
• User Freindly Front end
• Multiple Source FileSet Support (Multiple Folder and Files Selection to searh into)
• File types filter (according to file name extension)
• ... And any other useful feature you'll suggest ;)

Screenshots (GUI Front end)

Download latest release of Kifkif

Latest release is 1.2b1 and you can find it here.

Requirement

Java Runtime Environment(JRE) 1.5 is required for running this tool.

Credits

• Main Developer : Taha Ben Salah (thevpc@walla.com)

Change log

version 1.2b1 (04/03/2004)

1. Improuvements in Console Mode
2. Bug fixes

version 1.1 (24/01/2004)

1. Added new Time stampinf Filter
2. Added Versatile and deterministic progression
3. Added Proress chronometer
4. Summary support (Nbr of duplicates, total size of duplicates)
5. Added Reverse Order Sorting, Folders first Sorting
6. Improvements in File Selection
• Select/Deselect
• Clear selection
• Auto select
• Select by location
• Deselect by location
7. Added Italian Localization support : Arabic, English, French and Italian are right now Supported
8. Added PL&F; support
9. Added Shell interaction Support (Open file)
10. Added Memory Use Icon Tray
11. Lots of GUI Improvements
12. Auto Check for updates (In the About Panel)
13. Minor bug fixes

version 1.0 (17/01/2004)

1. First stable version
2. Duplicates Removal
3. Export Plain Text
4. Localization support : Arabic, English, French are Supported
5. Minor bug fixes

version 1.0alpha2 (15/01/2005)

1. Simple GUI Front End
2. File filter support

version 1.0alpha1 (07/01/2005)

1. First release
2. Simple Console application

Features Planned for future versions

1. More interactive Remove Duplicates
2. Show Duplicates summary (depends on type) plugin for Summary Icon (like in linux) for text, and images
3. Tree Popup support (select all but this, select all like this menu items ...etc.)
4. Save Result so that you can remove duplicates later in witch case will be prompt for relaunching the search on restart
5. Save/load search options
6. D&D; support
7. Export Result to
   1. Text File
   2. XML File
   3. Html File
8. Support for more Locales (German, Espaniol)
9. Help, more help
10. Website, paye some attention on website
11. Pluggable l&f; support
12. Sound/animation Alarm support
13. More stamp comparators (DES checksum, ...)
14. More content comparators (special pdf, special xls and xml support, case insensitive content,)
15. Rewrite Kifkif for earlier targets of JVM (specially 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 & 1.4)