Modern computers come with fairly capacious hard drives, but often active users need to clean up the accumulated garbage. It’s better to start optimizing the free space of the media with the main thing - deleting the same documents. Search and removal of duplicate files is performed using special programs. Today there is no problem with free software, there are a lot of it on the Internet. Along with this, programs for searching for identical files are presented in a wide assortment, it remains only to choose a convenient interface and features of the functional load.
One of the best duplicate finder is DupKiller. We will analyze it as an example of document search.
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Consider the program in more detail. As already mentioned, the interface is clear and very simple. Even the most advanced user will be able to figure out how to manage the program.
The “Disks” tab is designed so that you can select the media on which you want to search for duplicate files. Here, the user will be able to additionally configure how the search will be performed, what types of files will be affected, and what the program should do when duplicates are detected.On the Settings tab, utility developers suggest debugging comparison criteria for duplicates found. You can compare not only the names, but also the contents of the files, their size and type. In addition, it is proposed to debug various attributes of documents and assign files that should be excluded from analysis by the program.
After the user has completed all the necessary settings, just click on the “Scan” button, and the utility will begin searching for the same files on all designated media.At the end of the scan, a window will appear where the number of retries found and the total amount of space they occupy will be displayed. The list is displayed clearly, so there is no need to analyze the result for a long time. It is shown in the form of groups visually separated from each other.
In this list, files to be deleted are selected using the selection function. For those who want to use the search for identical files with more accurate debugging, there is a special help on working with the utility.In general, the program is professionally executed. The disadvantages of the utility can only be attributed to the fact that adjusting the selection parameters is not always convenient, otherwise DupKiller is in no way inferior to its analogs, even surpassing them in the flexibility of tuning and the quality of the search.