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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
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contains the list of the folders 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.
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If you added folder before, a popup menu with a list of recent folders you added will pop. You can
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click on one of them to add it directly to your list. If you click on the first item of the popup
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menu, **Add New Folder...**, you will be prompted for a folder to add. If you never added a folder,
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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
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you click the button, the selected folder will be set to **excluded** state (see below) instead of
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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:**
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Duplicates found in this folder can be deleted.
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**Reference:**
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Duplicates found in this folder **cannot** be deleted. Files from this folder can
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only end up in **reference** position in the dupe group. If more than one file from reference
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folders end up in the same dupe group, only one will be kept. The others will be removed from
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the group.
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**Excluded:**
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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
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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
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state unless you explicitly set a subfolder's state.
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.. _iphoto:
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iPhoto and Aperture libraries
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dupeGuru Picture Edition supports iPhoto and Aperture, which means that it knows how to read these
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libraries and how to communicate with iPhoto and Aperture to remove photos from them. To use this
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feature, use the special "Add iPhoto Library" and "Add Aperture Library" buttons in the menu that
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pops up when you click the "+" button. This will then add a special folder for those libraries.
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When duplicates are deleted (sent to trash) from an iPhoto library, it's sent to iPhoto's
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trash.
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When duplicates are deleted (sent to trash) from an Aperture library, it unfortunately can't
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send it directly to trash, but it creates a special project called "dupeGuru Trash" in Aperture
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and send all photos in there. You can then send this project to the trash manually.
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iTunes library
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dupeGuru Music Edition supports iTunes, which means that it knows how to read its libraries and how
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to communicate with iTunes to remove songs from it. To use this feature, use the special
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"Add iTunes Library" button in the menu that pops up when you click the "+" button. This will
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then add a special folder for those libraries.
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When duplicates are deleted from an iTunes library, it's sent to the system trash, like a
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normal file, but it's also removed from iTunes, thus avoiding ending up with missing entries
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(entries with the "!" logo next to them).
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