SMF – Search my Files is a desktop freeware application designed for advanced file searching, duplicate detection, and file management tasks. It targets users who need to locate, organize, and manage files across their systems with a high degree of precision and flexibility. The tool is positioned as a multi-dimensional file searcher, duplicate files finder, file copier/mover, deleter/eraser, and duplicate previewer.
One of SMF’s core strengths is its extensive search and filtering capabilities. Users can search for files by last modified date, keyword, file attribute, and more. Specialized filters allow searching for images by filesize, dimensions, or EXIF metadata, and for MP3 files by length, author, or bitrate. The application also supports searching for duplicate pictures based on filesize and dimension, and offers md5-driven duplicate file detection with simplified calculation for speed. SMF enables users to open, copy, move, delete, or erase any file found, and initiated searches can run in the background while the application is minimized to the system tray.
3) formats, polling file extensions, times (modified, created, accessed), sizes, attributes, and extended attributes. Filters can be applied by extension, attribute, filesize, filetime, or via regular expressions. dll, calculate hashes (md5, crc32, sha1), and analyze ADS (Alternate Data Streams) from any file. Results are managed through a SQLite-driven reporting tool, which allows saving, loading, and querying of search results, as well as previewing files (including jpg, pdf, mpg, and other formats supported by Windows Explorer).
The software is available as a 64-bit and 32-bit executable for Windows desktop, with some DLLs and features only available in the 32-bit version. SMF is distributed as freeware and is also described as open source. The tool is updated regularly, with enhancements such as improved visual experience, support for new file formats, and bug fixes included in recent releases.
SMF sits in PulseGate's Other productivity category. Finding, managing, and removing duplicate or unwanted files on a user's computer efficiently. It is built as a consumer product for desktop users needing advanced file search and management. SMF is free to use. The product ships for the command line and Windows.
funk.eu builds and maintains SMF. PulseGate's similarity index finds few close equivalents — SMF occupies a relatively distinct niche. Key capabilities include duplicate file finder, advanced search filters, and file copy and move.
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