Windows 10: Recommendation for a safe duplicate file cleaner?

I see recommendations for back in 2019. Wondering if anyone has 2023 recommendations?

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what is a good safe duplicate photo cleaner

what is a good safe duplicate photo cleaner

 

Finding duplicate files

Hey hey,

During the years the backups have just accumulated in random places, essentially, and I would like to clean up. Is there a program that can search for duplicate files? And by that I mean identical files. I tried dupeGuru, but that somehow found ... all files to be identical I guess? Like how a bunch of jpg's with different names, sizes and locations being marked 100% identical, or how a bunch of xls-files with completely different everything also were 100% matches with each other. I don't need any fancy functions, just a list of the files that share the name and filesize and created/last write dates.

 

Duplicate Cleaner Pro not recognizing duplicates! Solution? Alterna?

I have the PRO version of Duplicate Cleaner (Digital Volcano). Today I was trying to cull obvious duplicate NEF files prior to doing a Lightoom import, but Duplicate Cleaner Pro doesn't identify any of the duplicates. Yes, I paid for this utility, but I'm entirely open to a new one, either free or even paid if necessary. So did I do anything wrong?

Here are my Duplicate Cleaner "Find Files" settings.





And here is the target folder with all the obvious duplicates. (No I don't know how I created all these duplicates, but it was years ago, before I even started to use Lightroom.)