Quick Guide

to Duplicate FileFinder
Installing Duplicate File Finder
Main program window and search criteria selection
Duplicates list
How to delete duplicates from specific drive/folder
Rescue Center
The View tab
Getting help

02

Installing

Duplicate File Finder

Duplicate File Finder

Run the duplicate-file-finder-setup.exe file and follow theintuitive installation steps.

1

At the top-right of the installer window, you may
choose the interface language you’d like to use.

2

Launch the installer by double-clicking on thedownloaded file.

You can leave the installation options as they are orcustomize them on this page.

Here you can change the folder to install the program to.

Make sure that the option to create a desktop icon is checked
for quick access to the app later.

Click the links to review the EULA and Privacy Policy, then hit‘Agree and install’ to proceed with installation.

03

The installation should take less thana minute:

Duplicate File Finder

Click the ‘Finish’ button to finalize theinstallation and launch the program:

04

Main Program Windowand Search Criteria
Selection
Once Duplicate File Finder starts up, you will see the main
program window:

Duplicate File Finder

On the left, choose all the disk drives and folders you’d like tosearch for duplicates in. 

The right part of the main window is where you need to set
the criteria for your search. You can go with the default
criteria and just hit the ‘Search’ button, or go through thecriteria step by step by clicking ‘Next’ and checking orunchecking the boxes as needed
On Step 1 of criteria selection, choose the types of files
you would like to look for and click ‘Next’.

Duplicate File Finder05

Step 2 of criteria selection will looklike this:Here you can choose to ignore reallysmall or large files. When done, click‘Next’.

Step 3. Check the correspondingboxes if you’d like the search toignore file names, file dates andhidden files – each option is briefly
described to help you decide. Whendone, press ‘Next’.

06

Step 4. Here you can searchfor specific file names orextensions. For example,
search for .pdf files only byspecifying “.pdf” in the search
field:

Step 5. Here you need to select how you want the duplicates to bedeleted. Keep in mind that if you choose 'To Rescue Center', deleted
duplicates will be saved as a single archive. This means you will be able
to restore them all from this archive later, with no way to select specificfiles to bring back.
If you choose 'To Recycle Bin', you will be able to review each deleted
file and restore it, if needed, until your Recycle Bin is emptied.

Duplicate File Finder

If you choose 'Permanently', the files will be deleted without being sent
to Recycle Bin first and you won't be able to restore them later.

Press the ‘Next’ button to go tothe last step of criteria
selection.

When done setting yoursearch criteria, click the‘Search’ button and wait forthe scan to complete. Theprogram will display a listof all detected duplicatesthat match the criteria youspecified.

07

Duplicates List
Review the duplicates list and choose the files you wantdeleted.

Duplicate File Finder

Instead of checking one box at a time, you can choose
one of the automatic selection options by clicking on thearrow on the ‘Select’ button. The options you can choose
from include ‘By modification date’, ‘One in each group’,‘All duplicates in each group’ and duplicates with aspecific extension.
When you choose ‘Select One in Each Group’, the last
duplicate in each group is selected.

If you choose ‘Select All Duplicates in Each Group’, thefirst file in each group of duplicates will be treated asoriginal, and all other files in the group will be selected. 

If you choose ‘Select Duplicates by Modification Date’,the latest/earliest duplicates will be ticked.

08

Please also be aware that from the machine point of view,
there are no originals or duplicates, there are only files
that are identical. After you run the scan, the results are
displayed as groups of identical files. The user is the one
to decide which of the identical files to remove and whichto leave. The ‘Delete all duplicates in each group’ option
is selected by default, so if you press ‘Delete’ right after
the scan completes, the program will automatically delete
all of the files except one in each group.

Duplicate File Finder

After you select the duplicates you’d like to delete, clickthe ‘Delete selected files’ button. You will see a popup
asking you to confirm deletion– just click ‘Yes’ there.

NOTE: If you check the boxes next to all
detected files and hit ‘‘Delete
Delete selected files’,files’, theapp will delete ALL identical files, including theoriginals. You need to keep one file in eachgroup unchecked to make sure only the extra
copies are deleted.

09

How to delete
duplicates from specificdrive/folder

Duplicate File Finder

Trick #1

Although Duplicate File Finder does not let you choose which
drive to delete the files from directly, there are several waysof doing it indirectly. The first way is to manually select thefiles you'd like to delete. The second way is to combine thefollowing features in Duplicate File Finder:
1Click on the ‘Path’ column header to sort by file location
using alphabetic order.

2Use the ‘Select all duplicates in each group’ option tocheck all but the first file in each group.

This trick will work on most computers that usually have 2drives – C and D. Click the ‘Path’ header once or twice,depending on which drive you want to be at the top of thelist, as that will be the drive where the one file copy from eachgroup will be kept. After that, choose the ‘Select all duplicatesin each group’ option and click ‘Delete selected files’ toremove all but the first file in each group.

10

Trick #2

Duplicate File Finder

You may also choose folders to protect fromthe duplicates cleanup, set the folder todelete duplicates from, or choose a path toignore during cleanup, right from the search
results screen. To do that, right-click on afolder in the list and choose the option you
want:

11

Rescue Center
The Auslogics Rescue Center is where you savebackups created prior to running various
optimization tasks, and from where you canrestore things to a previous stable state if
something goes wrong or you don’t like theoperation's results. You can access Rescue
Center form the ‘File’ menu at the top of theprogram window.

If you click on the ‘Rescue Center’ option in thisDuplicate File Finder

menu, the Rescue Center tab will open:

12

If you had Duplicate File Finder delete
duplicates to the Rescue Center, you can restore
all deleted files by selecting a backup here andclicking the ‘Restore’ button.

If you’d like, you can relocate Rescue Center files to adifferent place on your PC, such as to a bigger drive toallow for more storage. To change the destination folder
for Rescue Center files, do the following:
Go to ‘File’ -> ‘Settings’ -> ‘Rescue Center’ -> ‘Change

Duplicate File Finder

Select a different location and click ‘OK’Rescue Center files are archives and they areusually stored at the following address on yourcomputer:

C:\ProgramData\Auslogics\Duplicate File
Finder\8.x\Rescue\Duplicate File Finder

13

You can also assign an external drive to theRescue Center. However, keep in mind thatthe backup and recovery process will onlywork as long as the drive letter does notchange (you need to create the same
conditions for your external media during
recovery as during backup).

Duplicate File Finder

To customize the program even further, you
can expand the amount of disk space
allocated to Rescue Center backups up to50%: go to ‘File’ -> ‘Settings’ -> ‘Rescue
Center’ and change the following setting:

14

The View Tab

Duplicate File Finder

You may use the View tab to edit the way you
review the list of detected duplicates bydeciding whether to see previews of all or justcertain files after the search. To access the View
tab from the main menu, go to ‘File’ -> ‘Settings’
and choose ‘View’ on the left:

Since loading large files may take time and slow
down the results preview on lower-speccomputers, you may disable the preview ofvideo files or files larger than a certain size.

If you are concerned about deleting importantsystem files in your cleaning spree, make surethat the ‘Search in hidden folders’ option isunchecked.

15Getting Help
Many of the questions you may have regarding
Auslogics software products have already beenanswered in the FAQ section on
www.auslogics.com. The Support section on theAuslogics website also offers a way to retrieve alost license code, request a refund, download
product manuals and more.
Should you have any questions that are notanswered on the website, don’t hesitate to email
our dedicated customer support team 24/7 at thefollowing address:

Duplicate File Finder

support@auslogics.com

Thank you for using Duplicate File Finder!