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Finding Duplicate Files in the Contents View
This tool will find duplicate files that are in the Contents View. For Explore Views all the files in one folder would be searched. For Virtual Folders all files in the Virtual Folder will be compared which can be in multiple folders or paths on the same drive or many drives.
After FileBoss has found duplicate files it will hide all other files and just leaving just the duplicate files displayed.
To refine the search and restrict it to the current files, select them first and then in the Find Duplicate Files dialog check the Restrict to Selected Files box.
To redisplay all files in the view use the View | Hide/Unhide | Show All from command from th main menu or simply press the F11 key.
Displaying the Find Duplicates Dialog
To find duplicates use the Tools | Find Duplicates... command from the main menu to display the Find Duplicates Dialog.
Selecting Comparison Attributes
Selecting the comparison attributes is straight forward. Note that the Names option will not be available when in an Explore View as it is meaningless in a folder where all file names must be different.
Restricting the types of files returned
You can enter optional file patters to explicitly tell FileBoss which files to include or even exclude from the search for duplicates. Separate multiple patterns with the bar character (|) and if a pattern should exclude matching files precede it with a dash (-).
For instance entering, *.jpeg | *.jpg | *.bmp | *.gif | -~* would compare all files with the extensions jpeg, jpg, bmp and gif the filename began with the tilde character (~).
Ref: HIDD_FIND_DUPLICATES
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