When comparing Advanced Renamer vs Directory Report, the Slant community recommends Advanced Renamer for most people. In the question“What are the best bulk rename tools for Windows?” Advanced Renamer is ranked 4th while Directory Report is ranked 12th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Easily composable rules and priority ordering
Pro It does almost everything and it uses regular expressions and wildcards
Pro Portable version available
Pro Very user friendly
Pro Very user friendly
Pro Never encountered anything the program doesn't do.
Pro Regular updates and forum support
Pro Offers good options for quickly dealing with duplicates
Once duplicates are found you can choose to select certain files based on criteria like when was it created, when was it last modified, size, folders they're in or if the folders they're in contain a particular string.
Pro Reasonable rules for finding both duplicate files and folders
The program can find duplicate files based on any combination of size, name, CRC. It can also compare files byte by byte. Also, it can compare folders (with or without subfolders) based on any combination of size, name, CRC as well as file count.
Pro Gives a clear overview of found duplicates
It shows duplicate items grouped with every second group highlighted.
Cons
Con No great support
You may not receive any answer to your emails.
Con More advanced renames (such as presets and scripts) require some learning
And research to do the learning in the first place. It's not in-app.