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• What is Duplicate Finder?

• What is CRC32 and Byte to Byte

• Does Duplicate Finder support file systems?

• Can I scan two or more hard drives at the same time?

• What is the difference between an unregistered version and the registered version?

• Will Duplicate Finder check the files or folders located in removable media.

• How does Duplicate Finder save hard disk space?

• Does Duplicate Finder run on Linux systems?

• I am a novice PC User and I am not familiar with the System Files,
  does Duplicate Finder guide me before I start deleting duplicate files?
   

What is Duplicate Finder?

Duplicate Finder is a shareware utility designed to assist users in analyzing duplicate files and increasing the hard disk space by deleting, moving, copying them to the recycle-bin or moving the duplicate files to a folder. Duplicate Finder locates and removes the true duplicate files before they cause havoc to your system.

What is Byte to Byte and CRC32

Byte to Byte : Same-name files are suspected to be the same but their contents may be different. Duplicate files are those contents identically the same regardless of file name.

File A: 1010101010101
File B: 1010101010101

File A is exactly identical to file B

CRC32 : CRC can be considered as a string that represents the contents of a file. So if two files have the same CRC, it means their contents are the same. If this criteria is also included into scanning, you will get only duplicate files in every sense. Files with the same CRC and size will be identical. click here for more information about CRC32.

Does Duplicate Finder support file systems?

Duplicate Finder extends its support to NTFS and FAT.

Can I scan two or more hard drives at the same time?

Duplicate Finder supports the functionality of scanning multiple hard drives, including external drives like JAZ or USB

What is the difference between an unregistered version and the registered version?

The Unregistered version of Duplicate Finder can search only 2000 files at a time.
Registered version supports all the functionalities of Duplicate Finder.

Will Duplicate Finder check the files or folders located in removable media device?

Yes, Duplicate Finder checks for the files in removable media devices like floppy, USB, JAZ drive.

How does Duplicate Finder save hard disk space?

Duplicate files can begin appearing in your system for a number of reasons, and can have a number of unfavorable results aside from wasting your drive space. Various applications may install the same driver files, dll's, ocx's (activeX controls), etc. in numerous different locations on your system, or you may copy or download the same files into different folders on your system without knowing it. Sometimes the only result of this is waste of hard drive space. With Duplicate Finder, you can easily find and remove duplicate files.

Does Duplicate Finder run on Linux systems?

No, but even though Duplicate Finder is not yet available on the Linux platform, you can use Samba on the Linux system to give Windows workstations access to the files kept on Linux boxes. Simply map folders as drives on a PC workstation or use UNC path for folder to search.

That way, you can find duplicate files on Linux systems, and delete or move them as you would on a PC. Keep in mind that you need proper access rights in order to scan files (read access) and to delete them (write access). Since Linux file names are case sensitive but on Windows they are not, performance may not be as good, since more files will be checked. Also, always use CRC checksums due to the different case sensitivity.
 

I am a novice PC User and I am not familiar with the System Files, does Duplicate Finder guide me before I start deleting duplicate files?

Duplicate Finder protects the System folders and files by default. However, Duplicate Finder will ask for confirmation before deleting the selected system files from the result page.

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