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189,147 files, 2.1 TB scanned, 5,485 in both, real scan
Buckrr matches files by content, not by name. Every extra copy goes into one folder for you to check, the last copy of each file is locked, and it shows you what your backup is missing.
Every card you dumped onto the desktop for now. Every I’ll sort it later. Every backup you started and abandoned. It all piled up — now your life’s work is scattered across an old laptop, four external drives, and folders named FINAL, FINAL_v2, and import_new.
Deleting feels dangerous. So you keep everything, buy another drive, and the pile grows.
Start with the one job you came for, or run all four on your first drive.
Point it at one folder to find the duplicates inside it. Point it at two, say a drive and its backup, to see what’s in one and missing from the other. Identical files under different names still get caught.
First set only means it’s on the laptop and missing from the backup.
Buckrr moves duplicates into a folder called /duplicates for you to review, and you can undo a whole run from the app. The last copy of every file is locked. Empty the folder when you’re happy, and the space is yours.
One run builds the complete copy you’ve never had. Buckrr skips every file that already exists at the destination and copies the rest — keep the original folder structure, or flatten everything into a single folder.
Every folder with its file count, size and share of the total. 849.8 GB of folders mapped in 3.5 s, so the folder that ate the drive stops being a mystery.
Buckrr fingerprints every file by the bytes inside it. Rename it, move it, change the date — the fingerprint stays the same, so two names can still be one photo. Only the contents settle it.
Buckrr turns years of scattered copies into one library you can trust, and gives back the space the duplicates were stealing.
What stops you: “What if it throws away the only copy I have?”
Buckrr sets a file aside only after an identical copy is verified somewhere else — the last copy of anything stays put, and everything it moves lands in a duplicates folder you can review. When it isn’t obvious which copy to keep, Buckrr asks you first. Nothing moves on a guess.
What stops you: “I’m not uploading ten years of photos to anyone.”
No upload, no cloud. Your files never leave your PC. Buckrr only goes online to check your licence now and then.
What stops you: “I’ve renamed half of these. It’ll never match them up.”
That’s the difference between finding some duplicates and finding all of them.
What stops you: “I spent three hours sorting and barely scratched the surface.”
983 GB of photos and videos (37,108 files), analysed in 4 min 19.5 s on an NVMe drive. Older drives take longer; Buckrr doesn’t mind. Press start, walk away, come back to review what it found.
Here’s honestly where each one leaves you.
| Doing it by hand | A duplicate finder | Cloud backup | Buckrr | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tells you what isn’t backed up | No | Mostly no. It finds what’s doubled, not what’s missing | Not the drives in your drawer | Yes. Across every drive you point it at |
| Finds renamed copies | No. You’re reading filenames | Usually, by content | No. It uploads your duplicates too | Yes, by content |
| Can delete your only copy | You do | Often | No | Never. It moves copies aside |
| Handles a decade in one run | No | It finds; you still sort | Uploads for weeks | Yes. One run, unattended |
| What you’re left with | A new folder called FINAL_v3 | A smaller mess | A copy of the mess | One library you can trust |
I shoot holidays and astrophotography — a hobby that fills a drive faster than anything else you can point a camera at.
Full even after I’d added 3 TB, plus three external drives. Some photos existed four times over; some drives held the same photo three times — FINAL, FINAL_v2. And some existed exactly once, so if that drive died, they were gone.
So I bought a two-drive RAID, 20 TB each. And then I stopped. Copying everything I owned onto it would just move the mess into a bigger box.
I went looking for a tool that would find the duplicates and tell me which files existed in only one place. I couldn’t find one that did what I needed.
So I wrote a quick Python script. Work that had taken me an hour and a half took five minutes. Then I turned it into Buckrr. I’m not the only one with drives like that.
Full refund inside 30 days, no questions you have to answer. Sort out the mess once, then stop making it: Buckrr finds what’s duplicated and what exists nowhere else, this weekend and on every card you import after.
EU law says we owe you 14 days to change your mind. We’d rather you had long enough to run it on everything, so it’s 30. Ask, and you’re refunded. We’ll ask what went wrong, because that’s how the app gets better.
No files are deleted, ever. Buckrr moves duplicates into a folder you can review or restore, and locks the last copy of every file so it can’t be removed. With “Remove empty folders” on, as it is by default, Buckrr also deletes folders a move leaves empty. Restoring a file won’t bring them back. To actually free the space, review the duplicates folder and delete it yourself; nothing is freed until you do.
Mostly your disk, not the app: NVMe fastest, then SSD, then HDD noticeably slower. Connection matters too. Internal is best, USB 3.0 is fine, USB 2.0 isn’t recommended. On NVMe, Buckrr analysed 983 GB in 4 min 19.5 s.
No. Buckrr runs entirely on your PC, with no upload and no cloud. It goes online only to check your licence: at activation, and now and then after that.
Buckrr fingerprints files by their content, not their name or location. Renamed, moved or re-dated, the fingerprint doesn’t change, so it still finds the match.
Most find copies and stop. Buckrr also shows which files your backup is missing, copies just those across, and never lets you remove the last copy.
Ask for a refund within 30 days and you get all of it back. We’ll ask what went wrong afterwards; answering is optional.
You get a download link by email right after checkout. Install Buckrr, click Activate in browser, and approve it in your account. There’s no licence key to copy or lose, and your files stay on your PC.
Yes. Buy here, and the download link arrives by email. Open it on your Windows PC whenever you’re ready, install Buckrr, and approve it in your account.
3 on Yearly, 5 on Perpetual. If you switch computers, release the old slot from your account any time. No need to contact support.
Yes, whenever you like, for €69. It’s €69 in month 2 or month 12, and Perpetual starts straight away. The rest of your Yearly term isn’t refunded.
The four tools pause when the licence lapses. Nothing on disk is touched, and files already moved into the duplicates folder stay exactly where they are. Renew, or buy Perpetual, and everything picks back up.
Not yet. Buckrr is Windows only for now, Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit.
Email us at support@buckrr.com. No ticket system, just a reply from us.
Same address: support@buckrr.com. We read every one, and Buckrr’s roadmap will come from what people ask for.
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