DupKiller - Duplicate file killer

The situation of fear of being mistakenly erased by other people should have been scattered all over the hard drive, which is one of the reasons why the computer's hard drive is quickly filled. DupKiller (DK) is a utility that eliminates duplicated files that you should have.

Not only excellent in terms of speed of detecting and deleting duplicated files on computers thanks to complicated algorithms, DK also ceded the right to define duplicated files and the ability to set up processing filters for users. With this utility, you are no longer afraid of deleting the wrong duplicates (backup data).

With a capacity of 2.37 MB, compatible with all Windows, the free version (freeware) of DK is provided by author Oleksandr 'TR' Roslov at dupkiller.bira.ck.ua/download/DupKillerSetup.exe .

Using

1. Find duplicates on the hard drive

Install and activate DK, click on Scan Drives located on the left side of the interface and check the name of all the hard disk drives (logical discs) you are looking for from the list. Statistics are in the Select the drives area you want to scan. In addition, if you want to detect duplicated files on the rest of the drive types, simply check the corresponding options located just below the Refresh button as the floppy drives - Show floppy disk drives, removable drives - Show removable drives, CD / DVD drives - Show CD / DVD drives, network drives - Show remote (network) drives, virtual drives - Show virtual drives . ( see Figure 1 ).

2. Set up by directory and category

By default, DK will check all folders and files on the drives you have just specified in section 1. If you want to scan only one or more specific directories (mainly for shortening When you wait for the results, just click on Files and Folders on the left side of the interface and select Only folders named in the Folders area to scan. Then move the scroll bar to the bottom of the right window, click the Add button to activate the Adding Folder to List of Inclusions dialog box, specify the name and path of the folder you want to scan in Browse and then select OK. 2 times to complete ( see Figure 2 ).

If you want to scan only one or several file types, you just need to select the Files named item in the Files to look at area and then remove the checkmark from all unnecessary formats. For strange file types (not listed in the program's list), you need to manually declare by clicking the Add button to activate the Adding File to List dialog box of Inclusions, enter the signature representative of the file type (such as * .mp3) and then select OK to finish.

3. Set up the rules for identifying duplicated files

Click on Search Settings and then check all the rules you want to collect to help the program know when the files are considered duplicated. These requirements include duplicated files that must be created with the same date / time - Same date and time, with the same name - Same name, have the same name - Similar name, have the same Same size, same size, has the same extension - Same type as * .JPG, * .JPE and * .JPEG and has the same content - Same content. In addition, you can also specify a specific ratio between the two files in the Consider files same section so that DK decides if they are duplicated files ( see Figure 3 ).

4. Detection

After completing the steps above, click on the Scan button to officially tell DK to search for duplicate files. At the end of this process, the Scan complete dialog box will appear and notice the processing result including the -Time scan time elapsed, the total number of checked file groups - n groups found, total capacity and total volumes Duplicate information has just been discovered - x bytes found in y duplicate files.

Click on the OK button to close this dialog box and return to the interface to see a list of recently discovered duplicated files ( see Figure 4 ).

To delete any file in each of the recently found duplicates, simply right-click on its name in the list and then select Delete. Some of the remaining features are also very good in context menus including opening content of double files - Run / Open With, permanently deleting -Permanently delete, automatically deleting - Autodelete, renaming -Rename, viewing properties - Properties .

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