Title: Ultra Fast File Compare
Question: I've a folder full of files, and I want to work out which are the same.
Answer:
I was once stuck in this situation as I was cleaning out my "Folder Album"
Here is the solution I came up with. (note: Non-Recursive)
uses PSPcrc;
implementation
var
LookIn, LookFor:String;
Filenames,Crcs,Dups : TStringLists;
Procedure TForm1.btnBeginClick(Sender: TObject);
var
sr:Tsearchrec;
crc : TPSPcrc;
begin
Lookin := editLookin.Text; //(eg c:\windows)
Lookfor := editLookFor.Text; //(eg *.ini)
Filenames := TStringList.Create;
Crcs := TStringList.create;
Dups := TStringList.Create;
crc := TPSPcrc.create(form1);
if findfirst(lookin + '\' + lookfor, faAnyFile, sr) = 0 then begin
if (sr.Attr and faDirectory) sr.Attr then begin
Filenames.Add(sr.name);
crc.filename := lookin + '\' + sr.name;
crc.calculatecrc;
crcs.add(inttohex(crc.crc32,8));
end;
while findnext(sr) = 0 do begin
if (sr.Attr and faDirectory) sr.Attr then begin
crc.filename := lookin + '\' + sr.name;
crc.calculatecrc;
if crcs.indexof(inttohex(crc.crc32,8)) 0 then
dups.add(sr.name)
else begin
Filenames.add(sr.name);
crcs.add(inttohex(crc.crc32,8));
end;
end;
end;
end;
findclose(sr);
listbox1.items.commatext := filenames.commatext;
listbox2.items.commatext := crcs.commatext;
listbox3.items.commatext := dups.commatext;
filenames.free;
crcs.free;
dups.free;
crc.free;
end;
Of course you may want to sweeten this up by using TPSPcrc's on progress event... and possibly build a file progress bar again to show current progress through the file system.