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Some applications and computer usage, distributes copy files all over your hard disc. When an application is working – it does not check to see if you already have a necessary file – it just installs it on your computer just to make sure.
If a file has a duplicate at another location – it does not necessarily mean this twin file can be removed. It may be that another program needs this file to operate normally.
Another option that will discover these duplicate files, is to search by name or size. This will increase your probability of finding true duplicates that can be deleted.
Step 1
Choose Advanced Features and then Click Duplicate Files. - Click Add a New Path button to add a new path for System LifeGuard 2 - Duplicate File Finder Remover to scan.
- Click Delete Path button to remove a certain path from the list
- Click Add All Local Drives to add to the list all the local drives of your computer
- Click Clear All Paths to clear the entire list of paths/drives.
Click Next button.
Step 2
Choose between : - Filename Only - if two files have the same name, they will be considered as duplicate files
or - Filename and Size - if two files have the same name and size, they will be considered as duplicate files.
- You can also edit a list of files that should be allowed to have copies. Use Add button to add a filename to the list and delete button to remove an item from the list.
Click Next and System Lifeguard Duplicate File Finder Remover will start scanning for duplicate files.
Step 3
After the scanning process is done System LifeGuard 2 will display a list of the duplicate files found on your computer.
- Click Select All button to select all the files from the list (in order to clean all these files).
- Click Unselect All button to unselect all the files from the list.
- Click Filter to filter the files from the list on several criteria: by name, by date, by size or/and by security level.
- Click Clear Filter to remove the filter that has been applied to the list.
- After selecting the files to clean click Clean All Selected button and then choose what to do with the selected files:
- Secure Delete Files - the files will be deleted but there will be a possibility to recover them using Restore Deleted Files function
- Delete Files - the selected files will be deleted from your computer.
- Shred Files - the selected files will be permanently removed from your computer and there will be now way to recover them.
- Click Backup All Selected to backup the selected files that you are going to delete. You will be taken to Backup Files page
- Click Zip All Checked to create a zip file from all the selected files. A window will de opened so that you can select the path and type in the name of the Zip file that is to be created.
- Click Organize To button if you want to organize the selected files to a certain folder.
System LifeGuard 2 will locate duplicate files, while tagging them with the “Safe”, “Warning” and “Critical” icons. This will allow you to assess whether to delete or retain these files.
Duplicate File Finder Remover - optimize the way your hard disk space is used.
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