Quick Start
Make sure that you read the Important Note before using CloneSpy.
If you just want to find identical files in some of your drives or folders, follow these instructions:
Make sure that you read the Important Note before using CloneSpy.
If you just want to find identical files in some of your drives or folders, follow these instructions:
- Press the Add folder button in the Pool 1 frame on the Main window. The Add folder window appears.
- Choose the drive or folder you want to recursively search for duplicates from the folder tree on the left side of the Add folder window and press the Add selected folder button. Repeat this until all folders you want to scan are inserted to the pool. Finally press the OK button.
- Back on the main window, leave the mode in the Mode frame set to Compare files within Pool 1.
- Make sure, that the option Duplicates is selected in the Search for frame.
- Check if the option Ask user is activated in the Action frame.
- Finally, press the button Start scanning in the lower right corner of the Main window. CloneSpy will start scanning all the drives and folders which were added to Pool 1. If CloneSpy finds duplicate files, these files will be displayed. Then, you can decide which file (if any) should be deleted. Deletion takes place immediately.
- If you choose the option Automatically delete in the Action frame CloneSpy will automatically delete files without any further confirmation.
- Run the scanning process only on drives or folders where you are both aware of the contents and confident that it is safe to allow files to be deleted.
- Be especially careful about scanning system folders! Over-zealous use could have very damaging effects.
- Never use CloneSpy to scan the Windows folder or the whole drive where Windows is installed with automatic deletion. This will kill your system because there are certain files with the same content which Windows does not regard as redundant duplicates.