Tutorial 5

Tutorial 5: Safe cleaning disk

Task:
Clean your drive [C:] of duplicate files.

Solution:

We recommend turning on "Protect Windows" and "Program files" folders for safe cleaning disk. Click the button Options or use shortcut Ctrl+O to open the Options window.

In the Options window turn on tick boxes: "Protect Windows folder", "Protect Program Files folder", "Protect hidden folders". Click the button Save to save these changes. This will close the window and applies these changes.

You must add a path for searching. Click the button Add path or use shortcut Ins to open Add new search path window.

In the Add new search path window type the path [C:\] or click button Browse to select a path from folder tree presented.

Click the button Add path to save path in the search set.

To start searching for duplicate files click the button Search or use shortcut F5. This starts the scanning process. This progress will be shown in the Scanning folders progress window.

When the scanning of folders is completed, you will see the Scan info window.

To find duplicate files with the same content and "full clones" (files with same name and content) click the button Start content comparison. This starts the file content comparison process. This progress will be shown in the Progress content window.

When "file content" comparison is completed, you will see the Content comparison info window.

Close the Scan info window and select view: Full clones.

We recommend that you move all duplicates from drive [C:] to the temporary folder. This will be more safe than delete.

To move files from [C:] to the temporary folder you must first mark the files. Click the button Smart mark or use shortcut F7. This opens the Smart mark window.

In the Smart mark window set tick boxes to save one copy of each duplicate file. You can setup Smart mark to choose this file by:

modified date,
path,
file name.

Click the button Set marks in view Full Clones. This will set marks for all duplicate files, except one file in each group.

To move marked files click the button Move to... or use shortcut F10, this opens Move preview window.

In the Move Preview window type the path to the temporary folder like [D:\Temp] in the Destination folder. Then, click button Browse to select the folder from a tree or menu.

Review files in the Move preview window, and click the button Move files to move those files into the [D:\Temp] folder.

After you click the button Move files, you see a confirmation window. When you confirm this moving operation the Moving progress window will appear.

When "moving files" is completed, you will see the Moving information window.

Summary:
Now all duplicates files from drive [C:] have been moved to the [D:\Temp] folder.
Your drive [C:] does not contain any remaining duplicate files.
You can delete duplicate files from [D:\Temp] folder as soon as you need more space.