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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 basic input dupeGuru needs to start a scan:
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* An Application Mode selection
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* A Scan Type selection
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* Folders to scan
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Application Mode
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dupeGuru had three main modes: Standard, Music and Picture.
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Standard is for any type of files. This makes this mode the most polyvalent, but it lacks
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specialized features other modes have.
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Music mode scans only music files, but it supports tags comparison and its results window has many
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audio-related informational columns.
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Picture mode scans only pictures, but its contents scan type is a powerful fuzzy matcher that can
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find pictures that are similar without being exactly the same.
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Choosing an application mode not only changes available scan types in the selector below, but also
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changes available options in the preferences panel. Thus, if you want to fine tune your scan, be
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sure to open the preferences panel **after** you've selected the application mode.
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Scan Type
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This selector determines the type of the scan we'll do. See :doc:`scan` for details about scan
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types.
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Folder List
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To add a folder, click on the **+** button. If you added folder before, a popup
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menu with a list of recent folders you added will pop. You can click on one of
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them to add it directly to your list. If you click on the first item of the
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popup menu, **Add New Folder...**, you will be prompted for a folder to add. If
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you never added a folder, no menu will pop and you will directly be prompted
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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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Scan
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When you're ready, click on the **Scan** button to initiate the scanning process. When it's done,
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you'll be shown the :doc:`results`.
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