284GB duplicate files discovered in King of dedupe - NoClone contest result anounced.

    /24-7PressRelease/ - BRADENTON, FL, September 16, 2008 - United States, September 14, 2008 --Reasonable Software announces "King/Queen of Dedupe" contest result of Aug

Reasonable Software House Limited announced the "King/Queen of Dedupe" contest result in Aug 2008. Since April 2007, the contest was held to raise the awareness of duplicate files in PC Desktop and corporate network. Computer users may not be aware of how many duplicate files they have until disk space is full and file scattered around without management. NoClone is simply but powerful file utility to uncover true duplicate files, similar file and duplicate emails. The contest is held monthly. Score is calculated on monthly basis. Score = number of duplicate files found + number of duplicate files removed + size of duplicate files found (in KB) + size of duplicate files removed (in KB) + number of files marked by Smart Marker. User with top 3 highest score in a month will be rewarded! King/Queen of dedupe can get ONE free installer CD and license / upgrade. Registered users will have higher chance to get prize due to ability to remove large amount of duplicates. Aug 2008 result:
Champion: Dicky (score 277911533)
1st Runner-up: Bill Tower (195327487)
2nd Runner-up: George (56709791)
The champion was estimated to discover 284GB duplicate files.
To join the contest, download NoClone free trial at
NoClone - find and remove duplicate files, emails . After duplicate files search, click "All sessions" in duplicate files statistics, fill in your name and email then click "Submit your score". See latest contest information and result at
King of dedupe - NoClone Monthly Contest
. Reasonable Software House Ltd. reserves the right of judges.

About NoClone 2007
NoClone 2007 with New Features to Find Duplicate/Similar Files and Duplicate Emails for Recovering Disk Space, File Management and Digital Forensic

NoClone 2007 (v4.1.35) has the two new powerful and exciting features - Finding similar files and Finding duplicate Outlook emails. Apart from the existing function of finding exact duplicate files, resulted in accurate result without false duplicates, NoClone 2007 helps user find similar files and find duplicate Outlook emails. NoClone brings significant benefits to users in terms of recovering more disk space, managing files to save users' time. It is a helpful tool to digital forensic and e-discovery. Customers include local and overseas enterprises like the WWF UK.

Finding Similar Files / Grouping
Finding duplicate files can free users' disk space, but it is not enough because sometimes documents of different version are not exact duplicates. NoClone 2007 allows users to scan for similar files instead of true byte-by-byte comparison to uncover more suspected duplicate files. This feature can check similarity between files regardless of file size. NoClone 2007 can check content similarity between Office documents like Word doc but not down-sampled images and mp3 with different sampling rate.
Uncover more "duplicates"; recover more valuable disk space
Rather than buying a new hard drive which costs much, NoClone helps users to recover more valuable disk space. Users can uncover different versions of documents, spreadsheets, mp3 and photos. In most corporate environment, NoClone 2007 can classify similar files in shared folders on server.

File management: save your valuable time
How much time will you spend in sorting out your unclassified files manually? 1 day? With this feature, you can use NoClone to help you to sort out quickly. Example: Uncover installers of different version. You may have downloaded different version of installers, but most often users just want to keep the latest and NoClone helps.


Finding Duplicate Outlook Emails
Users can choose 'duplicate email' in the search template and scan for duplicate email and perform corresponding action like deletion and moving to other mail folders. Smart marker is also enhanced to support scanning result of duplicate emails. After installation, users can access NoClone from Outlook.
Other improvements of NoClone includes Shell context menu: Right-click folders to start NoClone with select folder and Column sorting in search result is back.
NoClone is a file utility shareware that you can try before buy at http://noclone.net. Home and Enterprise Edition are available.

About Reasonable Software House Ltd

Founded by a group of IT veterans, Reasonable Software House Limited is a software developer in the area of storage management and web-based business service. The company is committed to developing practical and cost-effective online solutions for companies ranging from home users to fortune 500 enterprises. Reasonable Software is Microsoft Certified Partner.

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