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Adding folders

  • Click on button
  • Browse and add a folder. Continue to add as many folders as you want
    • To remove a folder, click on (X) mark which is available right extreme corner of each folder entry.
    • Important Note: DupFinder search duplicates in all folders together.

Adding Extension Filters

  • To include only desired extensions, select Include following extensions button. In the text box below type extension without '.' and press enter. Add as many extensions as you want.
  • To exclude some extensions, select Exclude following extensions button. In the text box below type extension without '.' and press enter. Add as many extensions as you want.
  • If you do not specify anything DupFinder search all extensions.

Adding Size Filters

  • Specify file size in MB if you want include in the specified range. If you leave both empty DupFinder searches all file sizes.
  • If you specify minimum size and leave maximum as blank, it finds all files above the that value.
  • If you specify Maximum size and leave minimum as blank, it finds all files below the that value.
  • You can add in decimal values to search to be more precise. Example you can specify 1.23 or something else.

Note:

  • It is a good idea to add some filters. Make sure your search is not including any Operating system files. Even though there may be duplicates in OS files, deleting those may cause issues.

Manual Fix


  • Take the mouse to a group which you want to clean. Fix button appears on screen as shown below. Click on fix button to delete the files.

    It gives the option to select files to delete. It helps you keep you one file as original.

Auto Fix

Auto Fix wont delete your files instead it will be moved to a sepcial folders called ".duplicates" and keep the folder structure intact.

For each folder it creates ".duplicates" folder, which contains duplicates found in the current folder(files compared with other folders in search)

Revert Auto Fix

Some case you want to revert the Auto fix it is easy to do.

Note: All these are not from DupFinder software. These things may slightly different for each OS(Ex: Windows7, Windows8 and Windows10) You can use command line or terminal to do things.

Windows OS:

  • Open file explorer go the each folder.
  • Look for ".duplicates".
  • Go inside ".duplicates", press Ctrl+A (select all) and right click select "Cut"
  • Back to original folder and right click select "Paste"

Ubuntu (Linux)

  • Open file explorer (It is called Files in ubuntu)
  • By default all files start with "." are hidden so go to "View" menu select "Show hidden files"
  • All other steps are same as windows