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Directories
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There is a panel in dupeGuru called **Directories**. You can open it by clicking on the **Directories** button. This directory contains the list of the directories that will be scanned when you click on **Start Scanning**.
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This panel is quite straightforward to use. If you want to add a directory, click on **Add**. If you added directories before, a popup menu with a list of recent directories you added will pop. You can click on one of them to add it directly to your list. If you click on the first item of the popup menu, **Add New Directory...**, you will be prompted for a directory to add. If you never added a directory, no menu will pop and you will directly be prompted for a new directory to add.
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To remove a directory, select the directory to remove and click on **Remove**. If a subdirectory is selected when you click remove, the selected directory will be set to **excluded** state (see below) instead of being removed.
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Directory states
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Every directory can be in one of these 3 states:
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* **Normal:** Duplicates found in these directories can be deleted.
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* **Reference:** Duplicates found in this directory **cannot** be deleted. Files in reference directories will be in a blue color in the results.
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* **Excluded:** Files in this directory will not be included in the scan.
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The default state of a directory is, of course, **Normal**. You can use **Reference** state for a directory if you want to be sure that you won't delete any file from it.
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When you set the state of a directory, all subdirectories of this directory automatically inherit this state unless you explicitly set a subdirectory's state.
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How safe is it to use dupeGuru?
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Very safe. dupeGuru has been designed to make sure you don't delete files you didn't mean to delete. First, there is the reference directory system that lets you define directories where you absolutely **don't** want dupeGuru to let you delete files there, and then there is the group reference system that makes sure that you will **always** keep at least one member of the duplicate group.
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Very safe. dupeGuru has been designed to make sure you don't delete files you didn't mean to delete. First, there is the reference folder system that lets you define folders where you absolutely **don't** want dupeGuru to let you delete files there, and then there is the group reference system that makes sure that you will **always** keep at least one member of the duplicate group.
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What are the demo limitations of dupeGuru?
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The mark box of a file I want to delete is disabled. What must I do?
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You cannot mark the reference (The first file) of a duplicate group. However, what you can do is to promote a duplicate file to reference. Thus, if a file you want to mark is reference, select a duplicate file in the group that you want to promote to reference, and click on **Actions-->Make Selected Reference**. If the reference file is from a reference directory (filename written in blue letters), you cannot remove it from the reference position.
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You cannot mark the reference (The first file) of a duplicate group. However, what you can do is to promote a duplicate file to reference. Thus, if a file you want to mark is reference, select a duplicate file in the group that you want to promote to reference, and click on **Actions-->Make Selected Reference**. If the reference file is from a reference folder (filename written in blue letters), you cannot remove it from the reference position.
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I have a directory from which I really don't want to delete files.
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I have a folder from which I really don't want to delete files.
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If you want to be sure that dupeGuru will never delete file from a particular directory, just open the **Directories panel**, select that directory, and set its state to **Reference**.
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If you want to be sure that dupeGuru will never delete file from a particular folder, make sure to set its state to **Reference** at :doc:`directories`.
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What is this '(X discarded)' notice in the status bar?
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In some cases, some matches are not included in the final results for security reasons. Let me use an example. We have 3 file: A, B and C. We scan them using a low filter hardness. The scanner determines that A matches with B, A matches with C, but B does **not** match with C. Here, dupeGuru has kind of a problem. It cannot create a duplicate group with A, B and C in it because not all files in the group would match together. It could create 2 groups: one A-B group and then one A-C group, but it will not, for security reasons. Lets think about it: If B doesn't match with C, it probably means that either B, C or both are not actually duplicates. If there would be 2 groups (A-B and A-C), you would end up delete both B and C. And if one of them is not a duplicate, that is really not what you want to do, right? So what dupeGuru does in a case like this is to discard the A-C match (and adds a notice in the status bar). Thus, if you delete B and re-run a scan, you will have a A-C match in your next results.
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I want to mark all files from a specific directory. What can I do?
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I want to mark all files from a specific folder. What can I do?
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Enable the :doc:`Power Marker <power_marker>` mode and click on the Directory column to sort your duplicates by Directory. It will then be easy for you to select all duplicates from the same directory, and then press Space to mark all selected duplicates.
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Enable the :doc:`Dupes Only <results>` mode and click on the Folder column to sort your duplicates by folder. It will then be easy for you to select all duplicates from the same folder, and then press Space to mark all selected duplicates.
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I want to remove all files that are more than 300 KB away from their reference file. What can I do?
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* Enable the :doc:`Power Marker <power_marker>` mode.
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* Enable the :doc:`Dupes Only <results>` mode.
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* Enable the **Delta Values** mode.
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* Click on the "Size" column to sort the results by size.
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* Select all duplicates below -300.
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I want to make my latest modified files reference files. What can I do?
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* Enable the :doc:`Power Marker <power_marker>` mode.
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* Enable the :doc:`Dupes Only <results>` mode.
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* Enable the **Delta Values** mode.
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* Click on the "Modification" column to sort the results by modification date.
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* Click on the "Modification" column again to reverse the sort order (see Power Marker page to know why).
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* Click on the "Modification" column again to reverse the sort order.
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* Select all duplicates over 0.
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* Click on **Make Selected Reference**.
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(ME) I want to remove all songs that are more than 3 seconds away from their reference file. What can I do?
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* Enable the :doc:`Power Marker <power_marker>` mode.
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* Enable the :doc:`Dupes Only <results>` mode.
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* Enable the **Delta Values** mode.
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* Click on the "Time" column to sort the results by time.
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* Select all duplicates below -00:03.
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(ME) I want to make my highest bitrate songs reference files. What can I do?
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* Enable the :doc:`Power Marker <power_marker>` mode.
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* Enable the :doc:`Dupes Only <results>` mode.
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* Enable the **Delta Values** mode.
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* Click on the "Bitrate" column to sort the results by bitrate.
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* Click on the "Bitrate" column again to reverse the sort order (see Power Marker page to know why).
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* Click on the "Bitrate" column again to reverse the sort order.
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* Select all duplicates over 0.
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* Click on **Make Selected Reference**.
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Folder Selection
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The first window you see when you launch dupeGuru is the folder selection window. This windows contains the list of the directories that will be scanned when you click on **Scan**.
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This window is quite straightforward to use. If you want to add a folder, click on the **+** button. If you added folder before, a popup menu with a list of recent folders you added will pop. You can click on one of them to add it directly to your list. If you click on the first item of the popup menu, **Add New Folder...**, you will be prompted for a folder to add. If you never added a folder, no menu will pop and you will directly be prompted for a new folder to add.
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An alternate way to add folders to the list is to drag them in the list.
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To remove a folder, select the folder to remove and click on **-**. If a subfolder is selected when you click the button, the selected folder will be set to **excluded** state (see below) instead of being removed.
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Folder states
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Every folder can be in one of these 3 states:
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* **Normal:** Duplicates found in this folder can be deleted.
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* **Reference:** Duplicates found in this folder **cannot** be deleted. Files from this folder can only end up in **reference** position in the dupe group. If more than one file from reference folders end up in the same dupe group, only one will be kept. The others will be removed from the group.
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* **Excluded:** Files in this directory will not be included in the scan.
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The default state of a folder is, of course, **Normal**. You can use **Reference** state for a folder if you want to be sure that you won't delete any file from it.
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When you set the state of a directory, all subfolders of this folder automatically inherit this state unless you explicitly set a subfolder's state.
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:maxdepth: 2
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quick_start
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directories
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folders
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preferences
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results
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power_marker
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faq
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changelog
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credits
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Power Marker
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You will probably not use the Power Marker feature very often, but if you get into a situation where you need it, you will be pretty happy that this feature exists.
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What is it?
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When the Power Marker mode is enabled, the duplicates are shown without their respective reference file. You can select, mark and sort this list, just like in normal mode.
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So, what is it for?
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The dupeGuru results, when in normal mode, are sorted according to duplicate groups' **reference file**. This means that if you want, for example, to mark all duplicates with the "exe" extension, you cannot just sort the results by "Kind" to have all exe duplicates together because a group can be composed of more than one kind of files. That is where Power Marker comes into play. To mark all your "exe" duplicates, you just have to:
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* Enable the Power marker mode.
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* Add the "Kind" column with the "Columns" menu.
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* Click on that "Kind" column to sort the list by kind.
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* Locate the first duplicate with a "exe" kind.
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* Select it.
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* Scroll down the list to locate the last duplicate with a "exe" kind.
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* Hold Shift and click on it.
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* Press Space to mark all selected duplicates.
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Power Marker and delta values
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The Power Marker unveil its true power when you use it with the **Delta Values** switch turned on. When you turn it on, relative values will be displayed instead of absolute ones. So if, for example, you want to remove from your results all duplicates that are more than 300 KB away from their reference, you could sort the Power Marker by Size, select all duplicates under -300 in the Size column, delete them, and then do the same for duplicates over 300 at the bottom of the list.
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You could also use it to change the reference priority of your duplicate list. When you make a fresh scan, if there are no reference directories, the reference file of every group is the biggest file. If you want to change that, for example, to the latest modification time, you can sort the Power Marker by modification time in **descending** order, select all duplicates with a modification time delta value higher than 0 and click on **Make Selected Reference**. The reason why you must make the sort order descending is because if 2 files among the same duplicate group are selected when you click on **Make Selected Reference**, only the first of the list will be made reference, the other will be ignored. And since you want the last modified file to be reference, having the sort order descending assures you that the first item of the list will be the last modified.
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**Copy and Move:** Determines how the Copy and Move operations (in the Action menu) will behave.
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* **Right in destination:** All files will be sent directly in the selected destination, without trying to recreate the source path at all.
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* **Recreate relative path:** The source file's path will be re-created in the destination directory up to the root selection in the Directories panel. For example, if you added ``/Users/foobar/SomeFolder`` to your Directories panel and you move ``/Users/foobar/SomeFolder/SubFolder/SomeFile.ext`` to the destination ``/Users/foobar/MyDestination``, the final destination for the file will be ``/Users/foobar/MyDestination/SubFolder`` (``SomeFolder`` has been trimmed from source's path in the final destination.).
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* **Recreate absolute path:** The source file's path will be re-created in the destination directory in it's entirety. For example, if you move ``/Users/foobar/SomeFolder/SubFolder/SomeFile.ext`` to the destination ``/Users/foobar/MyDestination``, the final destination for the file will be ``/Users/foobar/MyDestination/Users/foobar/SomeFolder/SubFolder``.
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* **Recreate relative path:** The source file's path will be re-created in the destination folder up to the root selection in the Directories panel. For example, if you added ``/Users/foobar/SomeFolder`` to your Directories panel and you move ``/Users/foobar/SomeFolder/SubFolder/SomeFile.ext`` to the destination ``/Users/foobar/MyDestination``, the final destination for the file will be ``/Users/foobar/MyDestination/SubFolder`` (``SomeFolder`` has been trimmed from source's path in the final destination.).
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* **Recreate absolute path:** The source file's path will be re-created in the destination folder in it's entirety. For example, if you move ``/Users/foobar/SomeFolder/SubFolder/SomeFile.ext`` to the destination ``/Users/foobar/MyDestination``, the final destination for the file will be ``/Users/foobar/MyDestination/Users/foobar/SomeFolder/SubFolder``.
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In all cases, dupeGuru nicely handles naming conflicts by prepending a number to the destination filename if the filename already exists in the destination.
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To get you quickly started with dupeGuru, let's just make a standard scan using default preferences.
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* Click on **Directories**.
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* Click on **Add**.
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* Choose a directory you want to scan for duplicates.
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* Click on **Start Scanning**.
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* Launch dupeGuru.
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* Add folders to scan with either drag & drop or the "+" button.
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* Click on **Scan**.
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* Wait until the scan process is over.
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* Look at every duplicate (The files that are indented) and verify that it is indeed a duplicate to the group's reference (The file above the duplicate that is not indented and have a disabled mark box).
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* If a file is a false duplicate, select it and click on **Actions-->Remove Selected from Results**.
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You can mark duplicate files, but you can never mark the reference file of a group. This is a security measure to prevent dupeGuru from deleting not only duplicate files, but their reference. You sure don't want that, do you?
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What determines which files are reference and which files are duplicates is first their directory state. A files from a reference directory will always be reference in a duplicate group. If all files are from a normal directory, the size determine which file will be the reference of a duplicate group. dupeGuru assumes that you always want to keep the biggest file, so the biggest files will take the reference position.
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What determines which files are reference and which files are duplicates is first their folder state. A file from a reference folder will always be reference in a duplicate group. If all files are from a normal folder, the size determine which file will be the reference of a duplicate group. dupeGuru assumes that you always want to keep the biggest file, so the biggest files will take the reference position.
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You can change the reference file of a group manually. To do so, select the duplicate file you want to promote to reference, and click on **Actions-->Make Selected Reference**.
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A **marked** duplicate is a duplicate with the little box next to it having a check-mark. A **selected** duplicate is a duplicate being highlighted. The multiple selection actions can be performed in dupeGuru in the standard way (Shift/Command/Control click). You can toggle all selected duplicates' mark state by pressing **space**.
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Show Dupes Only
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When this mode is enabled, the duplicates are shown without their respective reference file. You can select, mark and sort this list, just like in normal mode.
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The dupeGuru results, when in normal mode, are sorted according to duplicate groups' **reference file**. This means that if you want, for example, to mark all duplicates with the "exe" extension, you cannot just sort the results by "Kind" to have all exe duplicates together because a group can be composed of more than one kind of files. That is where Dupes Only mode comes into play. To mark all your "exe" duplicates, you just have to:
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* Enable the Dupes Only mode.
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* Add the "Kind" column with the "Columns" menu.
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* Click on that "Kind" column to sort the list by kind.
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* Locate the first duplicate with a "exe" kind.
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* Select it.
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* Scroll down the list to locate the last duplicate with a "exe" kind.
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* Hold Shift and click on it.
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* Press Space to mark all selected duplicates.
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If you turn this switch on, some columns will display the value relative to the duplicate's reference instead of the absolute values. These delta values will also be displayed in a different color so you can spot them easily. For example, if a duplicate is 1.2 MB and its reference is 1.4 MB, the Size column will display -0.2 MB. This option is a killer feature when combined with the :doc:`Power Marker <power_marker>`.
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If you turn this switch on, some columns will display the value relative to the duplicate's reference instead of the absolute values. These delta values will also be displayed in a different color so you can spot them easily. For example, if a duplicate is 1.2 MB and its reference is 1.4 MB, the Size column will display -0.2 MB.
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Dupes Only and Delta Values
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The Dupes Only mode unveil its true power when you use it with the Delta Values switch turned on. When you turn it on, relative values will be displayed instead of absolute ones. So if, for example, you want to remove from your results all duplicates that are more than 300 KB away from their reference, you could sort the dupes only results by Size, select all duplicates under -300 in the Size column, delete them, and then do the same for duplicates over 300 at the bottom of the list.
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You could also use it to change the reference priority of your duplicate list. When you make a fresh scan, if there are no reference directories, the reference file of every group is the biggest file. If you want to change that, for example, to the latest modification time, you can sort the dupes only results by modification time in **descending** order, select all duplicates with a modification time delta value higher than 0 and click on **Make Selected Reference**. The reason why you must make the sort order descending is because if 2 files among the same duplicate group are selected when you click on **Make Selected Reference**, only the first of the list will be made reference, the other will be ignored. And since you want the last modified file to be reference, having the sort order descending assures you that the first item of the list will be the last modified.
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Filtering
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Action Menu
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* **Start Duplicate Scan:** Starts a new duplicate scan.
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* **Clear Ignore List:** Remove all ignored matches you added. You have to start a new scan for the newly cleared ignore list to be effective.
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* **Export Results to XHTML:** Take the current results, and create an XHTML file out of it. The columns that are visible when you click on this button will be the columns present in the XHTML file. The file will automatically be opened in your default browser.
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* **Send Marked to Trash:** Send all marked duplicates to trash, obviously.
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* **Copy Marked to...:** Prompt you for a destination, and then copy all marked files to that destination. Source file's path might be re-created in destination, depending on the "Copy and Move" preference.
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* **Remove Marked from Results:** Remove all marked duplicates from results. The actual files will not be touched and will stay where they are.
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* **Remove Selected from Results:** Remove all selected duplicates from results. Note that all selected reference files will be ignored, only duplicates can be removed with this action.
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* **Make Selected Reference:** Promote all selected duplicates to reference. If a duplicate is a part of a group having a reference file coming from a reference directory (in blue color), no action will be taken for this duplicate. If more than one duplicate among the same group are selected, only the first of each group will be promoted.
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* **Make Selected Reference:** Promote all selected duplicates to reference. If a duplicate is a part of a group having a reference file coming from a reference folder (in blue color), no action will be taken for this duplicate. If more than one duplicate among the same group are selected, only the first of each group will be promoted.
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* **Add Selected to Ignore List:** This first removes all selected duplicates from results, and then add the match of that duplicate and the current reference in the ignore list. This match will not come up again in further scan. The duplicate itself might come back, but it will be matched with another reference file. You can clear the ignore list with the Clear Ignore List command.
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* **Open Selected with Default Application:** Open the file with the application associated with selected file's type.
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* **Reveal Selected in Finder:** Open the folder containing selected file.
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