When comparing dust vs Directory Report, the Slant community recommends Directory Report for most people. In the question“What are the best tools to discover disk usage?” Directory Report is ranked 6th while dust is ranked 20th. The most important reason people chose Directory Report is:
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.
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Pro Supports NTFS directory junctions
NTFS filesystems use several types of reparse points, one being the directory junction which is akin to a directory symlink on ext2/3/4. dust is able to traverse these successfully and add their contents to the reported sizes unless most other Windows command line tools of this nature.
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.