quick question: I am looking for a file version-management/backup software (windows).

sorry but thanks !

gonna bump this so a actual hard drive maniac should help ya

http://zabkat.com/ ?
http://zabkat.com/x2facts.htm

Why do different computers have different versions of the same file?

thanks a lot for chooooo chooooo!

Just a bump here.

If you have branching and multiple people working on the same project etc. you probably should just use git or svn like everybody else these days. Or if you're doing photoshop-specific stuff (as in your example) maybe Adobe Version Cue is still a thing, if Adobe hasn't killed it off. Version Cue is what they used at my last job for PS teamwork.

If you just want to keep track of old versions of files, perhaps look at a backup solution that does versioned/snapshot backups. Then it should let you access the previous N versions of that file (depending on how you set it up and how much space you have to spare). Or if you use cloud storage (or DAM for photo/media stuff) many of them allow you to access old file versions.

Or if you just want to be able to sync files more consistently to the NAS storage look at using rsync or robocopy, perhaps. If people are not synchronizing files from their workstations back to the server then some kind of automated tool like that could help, otherwise it's just a training/communication thing between you all to get everyone working the same way.

For your specific desired scenario with keeping multiple copies and renaming etc I suppose you'd probably need to make your own script to do that, it sounds like a nonstandard workflow.

Good luck :)

Try Unison.

Sorry, can't help :/
I can BUMP so others may, though

FreeFileSync can do
except detecting different metadata as equal as it is in fact different

I am clueless about this stuff personally, so... I am bookmarking this thread for the day I need it.

For this requirement: "files that actually are the 100% same (even if they have different metadata like the date they were last edited)" assuming you just mean filesystem timestamps that is actually fairly common. Anything that has a checksum/hashing feature (md5, sha256, sha512, etc) should be able to determine this. If you mean something like songs that are the same even though the binary file is different (e.g. one copy of the song is 3MB but another is 6MB), then I would expect that to be much much more difficult for a program to detect without a lot of custom handling... I am basing that off of the fact that I am a programmer and it's easy to find snippets in 5 or more different languages online for hashing algorithms (and not too bad to make your own) but audio/video-analysis is generally a LOT of work and most programmers would probably rely on a dedicated library or service to handle that kind of thing for them rather than write their own.

try googling for something like "duplicate file detector with checksum" or "duplicate file detector with md5" and add the platform you want (windows, linux, mac, bsd, etc). i would be surprised if there wasn't something for this already... especially if you're on something *nix based.

If you are looking for specific software recommendations, you might help folks help you by providing more info (e.g. what os platform are you running, are you comfortable using command line/scripts or does it need to be GUI, etc).

Here's a couple other places to look:
Lifehacker - Best duplicate file finder for windows
Alternativeto.net - dupeguru/

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I have no experience with this on Windows, so have a bump hoping someone knows of exactly what you need!

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