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How Clone Cleaner does work

HCC scans folders and adds duplicate files to one of 6 views. Views reflect duplicate FILE entries on your disk:

1. Same name (files have equal names - file name + file extension, like 'that.txt')
2. Same Size (files have equal sizes only regardless their names)
3. Same Name and Same Size (conjunction of previous two views)
4. Same content (for the Same Size files)
5. Full clones (for files which have same content and same name)
6. Zero size

1. Same name: the program puts files with the same filenames into the category. For example, your disk contains several files with name 'some.txt'. After disk scanning Clone Cleaner does place all the files 'some.txt' from different locations(paths) in one group in the category 'Same name'.
   C:\some.txt [52 bytes]
   C:\Backup\some.txt [730 bytes]
   C:\My Documents\some.txt [730 bytes]

Kindly be advised that program doesn't include into the group 'some.txt' files with different extension like 'some.jpg' or 'some.bmp'.

2. Same size: Clone Cleaner does exactly as above instead of filename the program looks for file size. Clone Cleaner does find files with the same size and puts them into the categorie 'Same size'. For instance, all the files with sizes 730 bytes would be in that category. These files may have different filenames.
   C:\that.txt [730 bytes]
   C:\My Documents\some.txt [730 bytes]

3. Same name and size: in this category are files which belong to both categories 'Same name' and 'Same size' .
   C:\Backup\some.txt [730 bytes]
   C:\My Documents\some.txt [730 bytes]

The Same content and Full clones are similar to the categories 'Same size' and 'Same name and size'. Additionally files in the categories have the same content (byte-to-byte comparison).

Zero size category shows files which do not have a content.

See also:
   Quick start tutorial
   Main wnidow