Duplicate Cleaner 6 Manual

Welcome to the Duplicate Cleaner 6 manual. Duplicate Cleaner finds duplicate and similar files - documents, photos, music, videos and more - and helps you decide which copies to keep and which to remove.

New to Duplicate Cleaner? Start with Getting started.

Contents

Introduction

• Overview
• Installation
• Registration
• Language

Getting started

• Getting started
• The main window
• Home page
• Wizards

Setting up a scan

• What to find
  • Metadata
  • More duplicate options
  • Search filters
• Where to look
  • Advanced folder search options
• Start scan

Scan modes

• Same content
• Attributes Only
• Image mode
• Audio mode
• Video mode
• Text mode
• Binary mode
• Document Mode

Working with the results

• Duplicate files
• Remaining files
• Duplicate folders
• Selection Assistant
  • Location marking
• Find in list
• Filtering the lists
• Files list context menu
• Image preview
• Media player

File removal

• Delete files
• Move or copy files
• Rename files
• Link files
• Sidecar files
• Export

Tools

• Virtual folders
• Hash tool
• Remove empty folders

Settings

• About
• General
• Theme
• File types
• Filter presets
• Ignore list
• Software updates

Reference

• Saving, exporting and importing scans
• CSV import
• Where Duplicate Cleaner keeps its data
• The log file
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Command line parameters
• Differences for Duplicate Cleaner 5 users

FAQs and troubleshooting

• Should I back up my files first?
• What is the difference between the content comparison / hashing types?
• No duplicate files were found!
• I can’t delete a file because it is protected / access denied
• I’m unable to mark a file