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How to remove duplicate files with easy duplicate finder?

Duplicate Finder retrieves duplicate files in a fast and the most reliable manner by providing the user the ability to delete those duplicate files from their system or move it to a separate folder.
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STEP 0. Where to search?

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Select necessary folders and/or drives

 


STEP 1. Setting the search options

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Set the following options:

  1. Set file mask
    to search files by mask
  2. Set min file size
    to exclude files with less size than been specified
  3. Protect system folders
    to exclude system folders (e.g. "Windows", "Program Files" etc.) from search
  4. Protect other system files
    to exclude system files (that are situated not in system folders) from search

STEP 2. Search

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Click the Start button to begin the search process.
The search process consists of two steps: scanning for files in selected folders and drives and checking for duplicates.

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STEP 3. Managing the duplicate files

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Select copies of files which will be deleted.
You can mark files manually or use following functions from the contextual menu:

  1. Select all duplicates in this folder
    e.g. if you've compared 2 folders and now want to delete duplicates from the second folder then just use this function to select required files.
    Comment: the previous selected files remains still selected after using of this function.
  2. Leave only oldest version in each Dup.Group
    Selects all files except the oldest ones in each Dup.Group (based on the modification time of files)
  3. Leave only newest version in each Dup.Group
    Selects all files except the latest ones in each Dup.Group (based on the modification time of files)

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Even though disk space gets cheaper every day, you need to keep your files well organized. Otherwise you will sooner or later, simply fill your disks with clutter. Also, files sizes tend to increase with all the fancy multimedia presentations, music files, digital pictures, and so on. It can be VERY difficult to determine if such files are really identical, without a Duplicate Files Finder. Duplicate Finder, is designed to assist home users/corporate users in supporting the task of retrieving true duplicate file (byte by byte) in their system. Duplicate Finder retrieves duplicate files in a fast and the most reliable manner by providing the user the ability to delete those duplicate files from their system or move it to a separate folder.

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