Duplicate Files

The Duplicate Files report locates and lists duplicate files throughout the scanned folder (and its sub-folders).

How duplicate files are identified depends upon the Attributes drop-down box setting. You can elect to compare the name and size of files, a combination of the name, size, and date - or simply file names alone.

Once the Duplicate Files report has been generated, the upper half of the report interface will expose the names of the duplicate files discovered during the scan, along with the file count and total aggregate size. Clicking on a duplicate filename will reveal the specific path, size and owner of each duplicate instance in the lower half of the report interface.

As with all File Reports, the Duplicate Files report can be sorted by any column in either ascending or descending order. Simply click a column header to sort by that column – click again to reverse the sort order.

The Duplicate Files report has the ability to ignore files smaller than a specific threshold, which defaults to 100Kb. Setting this threshold to a higher value increases the speed of File Report scans, and reduces system memory utilization. You can also set this option to "all files" to ensure that no file is omitted.

The Duplicate Files report can be exported to HTML format. Although printing is not supported directly within this particular report, you can easily export the results to HTML format, and then print them from within your web browser of choice.

Note: If you need more advance duplicated file detection and management capabilities, please consider our Duplicate File Detective software product, available on the web at http://www.duplicate-file-detective.com.