DupScout is a duplicate files finder utility allowing one to detect and cleanup duplicate files on local disks, networked computers and NAS storage devices. Users are provided with multiple product versions ranging from an easy-to-use free version to an enterprise-grade version capable of detecting and removing duplicates in an automatic and unattended mode.
All you need to worry about when you launch the program first is its right-hand “Input Directories” panel. Dup Scout will search these (and any folders beneath them) looking for duplicate files. So if there’s anything there now, right-click it and select Delete, then click the Add button and choose the root folder of a drive you’d like to check: C:\ , for instance.
With that done, click the Duplicates button on the toolbar and leave the program to work. This is a reasonably quick process it took only around 7 minutes to scan 56,000 files and 112GB of data on it test PC – but may take much longer with, say, network drives which are crammed with data. You don’t have to wait until the scan is complete to get a report, though, as Dup Scout displays duplicates as they’re found, so that should keep you entertained while it works.
Once the process is complete, just right-clicking any of the listed duplicates will give you a feel for exactly what Dup Scout can do. It can delete all duplicates, compress them, or move them all to a folder somewhere. There are options to help Dup Scout decide exactly which is the duplicate file (the newest, or the oldest?) Or you can choose to open a duplicate set and take manual control, deciding yourself exactly what should be done with each individual file.
You do need to be careful here. Deleting duplicate MP3 files will generally be safe, but wiping EXEs, DLLs or other executable files may cause very real problems: Windows or your applications may require duplicate files to be present, and so removing them will be a very bad idea.
Features
- [advt]Maximum Number of Files 100,000
- Maximum Storage Capacity 1 TB
- Maximum Number of Profiles 3
- Support for Long File Names
- Support for Unicode File Names
- Support for UNC Network Path Names
- Option to Delete Duplicate Files
- Option to Move Duplicates to a Directory
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