Understanding the Display by Path View

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zsDuplicateHunter has offers you two methods of displaying duplicates. The first type of display is display by path. This display type shows duplicates based on the path where the original file is located. The second type of display is display by group. This display type displays duplicates according to the criteria you set for grouping. In both cases, the Timestamp of each file is displayed to help you determine which files you want to preserve and which files you want to delete. The format of the timestamp can be customized using the options dialog.

 

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In the display by path view, all folders that were searched for duplicates are displayed just as they exist within your file system. After each file and folder, a summary of the status of the file and folder is displayed. For a folder, this status tells you how many files exist within the folder as well as how many of the files are unique and how many have duplicates. The status also tells you how many sub folders exist within the folder and how many of the sub folders have duplicates. For each file, there is a summary describing how many duplicates were found for the file.

 

In the example above, the BIRDS directory has 10 directories under it all of which have one or more duplicate files within them. The BIRDS directory has no files in it. The FLIGHTLESS directory has a total of 57 files in it. 13 of the files have one or more duplicates in the area that was searched and 44 of the files have no duplicates. The file 1993516.WMF has one duplicate in the area that was searched. The full path of the file is listed under the file.

 

Only duplicates which meet all the criteria you specified for the duplicate hunt are listed. Partial matches are not listed in the results.

 

Unique files are only listed if the Include Unique Files in Results setting was turned on when the duplicate hunt was run and Show All Files is turned on in the View menu.

 

When you open a file, a list of all files in that group will be displayed with the full path of the file. You can use the full path to identify which duplicate you would like to preserve and which duplicates can be safely deleted.