General Duplicate Hunt Options

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The General Duplicate Hunt Options contain options that apply to all duplicate hunts no matter what other options are selected.

 

Remaining Time Estimation

The Remaining Time Estimation method controls how zsDuplicateHunter estimates the amount of time remaining in the duplicate hunt.  There are three options.

1. Calculate Number of Files to Search Before starting duplicate hunt.
2. Calculate Number of Files to Search during duplicate hunt.
3. Do not estimate time remaining.

If you want to see the time remaining then either of the first two methods will display the time remaining in the duplicate hunt.  The second method will result in a slightly faster total duplicate hunt time, but the first method is easier to understand as the total number of files to be searched is completely calculated before the program starts to determine if files are duplicates.

 

Not estimating the time remaining will result in the fastest duplicate hunt on most systems, but you will not be able to see the remaining time.

 

By default, the program calculates the number of files to search before starting the duplicate hunt.  You can only change this setting in the Standard and Enterprise Editions of zsDuplicateHunter.

 

Please note, the time remaining is an estimate based on the amount of data to be found.  The remaining time will normally be close to the total duplicate time remaining, but it can be high or low depending on the actual data being searched, the number of duplicates found, the number of files being searched, etc.  In general, the remaining time will stabilize and be more accurate after the duplicate hunt is about 25% complete.

 

Duplicate Hunt Priority

The Duplicate Hunt priority allows you to control how much of the computer's resources a duplicate hunt can take.  You can set the priority to High, Medium, and Low.  The higher this setting is, the faster the duplicate hunt will finish.  However, other programs that you run at the same time will be slower.

 

By default the priority is set to Medium.  You can only change this setting in the Standard and Enterprise Editions of zsDuplicateHunter.

 

Show Deletion Method Details

The Show Deletion Methods Checkbox will allow you to hide the detailed information about each deletion method from the main screen.  Hiding the information will allow more results to be shown at one time.