If your photos have EXIF tags, you can also try the “EXIF” scan method which is much faster.įor some reason, you’d like to remove or edit dupeGuru’s user files (debug logs, caches, etc.). If all you need to find is exact duplicates, just use the standard mode of dupeGuru with the Contents scan method. Every picture has to be individually and fuzzily matched to all others, and this takes a lot of CPU power. This very cool capability has a cost: time. It can detect duplicate photos even if they are not exactly the same. This scanning method is very different from methods. If this fail, HS forums might be of some help. In some cases, for example on network storage (NAS), this has been known to work when normal deletion didn’t. This will not send files to the Trash, but delete them immediately. If dupeGuru still gives you troubles after fixing your permissions, try enabling the “Directly delete files” option that is offered to you when you activate Send to Trash. You need write permissions on files you want to send to Trash. Most of the time, the reason why dupeGuru can’t send files to Trash is because of file permissions. On some OS, the fact that it’s disabled is harder to see than on others, but if you can’t move the slider, it means that this preference is irrelevant in your current scan type. When these types are selected, the slider is disabled. Many scan types, such as the “Contents” type, only support exact matches.
This slider is only relevant for scan types that support “fuzziness”. If, for example, you want to remove every song with anything inside square brackets : There’s nothing you can do to prevent that, but there’s something you can do to easily remove them from your results after the scan: post-scan filtering. If your comparison threshold is low enough, you will probably end up with live and remix versions of your songs in your results. It will then be easy for you to select all duplicates from the same folder, and then press Space to mark all selected duplicates. Thus, if you delete B and re-run a scan, you willĮnable the Dupes Only mode and click on the Folder column to sort your duplicates by folder. Really not what you want to do, right? So what dupeGuru does in a case like this is to discard theĪ-C match (and adds a notice in the status bar). And if one of them is not a duplicate, that is If there would be 2 groups (A-BĪnd A-C), you would end up delete both B and C. Probably means that either B, C or both are not actually duplicates.
Lets think about it: If B doesn’t match with C, it Group, but it will not, for security reasons. It could create 2 groups: one A-B group and then one A-C It cannot create a duplicate group with A, B and C in it because not allįiles in the group would match together.
The scannerĭetermines that A matches with B, A matches with C, but B does not match with C. We scan them using a low filter hardness. In some cases, some matches are not included in the final results for security reasons. Set its state to Reference at Folder Selection. If you want to be sure that dupeGuru will never delete file from a particular folder, make sure to (filename written in blue letters), you cannot remove it from the reference position. If the reference file is from a reference folder Thus, if a file you want to mark is reference, select aĭuplicate file in the group that you want to promote to reference, and click onĪctions–>Make Selected into Reference. You cannot mark the reference (The first file) of a duplicate group. The best way to report a bug or suggest a feature is to sign up on Github and open an issue. That makes sure that you will always keep at least one member of the duplicate group.ĭupeGuru is hosted on Github and it’s also where issues are tracked. dupeGuru has been designed to make sure you don’t delete files you didn’t mean to delete.įirst, there is the reference folder system that lets you define folders where you absolutelyĭon’t want dupeGuru to let you delete files there, and then there is the group reference system There’s a lot of scanning options that allow you to get the type of results you’re really looking for. Some scan types feature advanced fuzzy matching algorithm, allowing you to find duplicates that other more rigid duplicate scanners can’t. Each mode has its own specialized preferences.Įach mode has multiple scan types, such as filename, contents, tags. It has three operational modes: Standard, Music and Picture. DupeGuru is a tool to find duplicate files on your computer.
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