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. It can delete all duplicates, compress them, or move them all to a folder somewhere. Once the process is complete, just right-clicking any of the listed duplicates will give you a feel for exactly what DupScout can do. You don't have to wait until the scan is complete to get a report, though, as DupScout displays duplicates as they're found, so that should keep you entertained while it works.
This is a reasonably quick process - it took only around 7 minutes to scan 56,000 files and 112GB of data on our test PC - but may take much longer with, say, network drives which are crammed with data. With that done, click the Duplicates button on the toolbar and leave the program to work. 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. DupScout will search these (and any folders beneath them) looking for duplicate files. And DupScout makes this all very easy.Īll you need to worry about when you launch the program first is its right-hand "Input Directories" panel. But more files means searches, disk defrags, Explorer browsing, virus scans and more can all take longer, so it can be worth checking your system for duplicates, just occasionally.
Of course if you've lots of free hard drive space left then a few duplicates may not seem to matter a great deal. DupScout provides a quick and easy way to locate and deal with all the duplicate files which could be cluttering your hard drive.
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