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Define Report

For flexibility and user convenience, you have options to disable startup tips, disable tooltips, delete files to recycle bin, clear history and reset warning and tips.

To open Define Report dialogue box, click the link "Redefine..." on the main page or click Review > Define report.

* Define Report dialog box

• Duplicate rule preset
  There are some rule preset for user to search the custom duplicate files. The set of presets are:
  • Exact-content duplicate file
  • Same-name duplicate files
  • Duplicate MP3
  • Large duplicate files (>1 MB)
  • Large files ( >1 MB)
  • Zero-size files
  • All files
  • Similar files
  • Similar images
  • Custom
  • Compare folders
     
  • Exact-content duplicate file
    This option allows user to search for duplicate files with the exact content. This option is recommended because deletion of exact content duplicates is the most safe. The same file size ,file name or modified date could not reflect whether the files are duplicates and safe to delete without information lost.
     
  • Same-name duplicate files
    This option allows user to search for duplicate files with the same name only.
    Note: Same-name duplicate file does not necessary having the same content, user should pay attention to the content before deletion.
     
  • Duplicate MP3
    This option allows user to search for duplicate MP3 with the same tag data.
     
  • Large duplicate files (>1 MB)
    This option allows user to search for duplicate files with the file sized larger than 1MB.
    For example, large files included:
    1. Music files( mp3, ogg, wav , wma, etc.)
    2. Movie files( mov , mpg , avi , etc.)
    3. Photo ( jpg, bmp, gif, tiff, png , etc.)
    4. Compressed files ( .zip , .rar, .tar , etc.)
    5. CD Image files( .iso, .bin, etc.)
     
  • Large files ( >1 MB)
    This option allows user to search for files sized larger than 1MB . This option is suitable for user to search for all files and skim through all large files and have an report of large files in the hard disk.
     
  • Zero-size files
    This option allows user to search for all zero-sized files in the hard disk. Even they are zero-sized, zero-sized file could make a folder harder to manage as there are too much unused files in the same folder. This option is could help user to discover and remove them all.
     
  • All files
    This option allows user to search for all files in the in the path specified.
     
  • Similar files
    This option allows user to search for similar files.
     
  • Similar similar
    This option allows user to search for similar images
     
  • Custom
    This option allows user to make custom filtering setting. The combination can be varies such as same name but not same size , same content but not same name.
     
  • Compare folders
    This option allows user to search duplicate files between selected folder.
     

  There are some options allow user to define custom duplicate definition by itself.
   

• Duplicate file definitions
  User are allowed to search for duplicate file or unique file. For choosing duplicate, more than or equal 2 copy of the same file would be displayed. For choosing unique, file with no duplicate would be displayed.
  Same name files can be defined as same file name and/or same file extension
  Duplicates can be defined as same file size, file content and/or file name, but it is recommended to check duplicate files with same file content to return true duplicate files.
  Byte-by-byte comparison can be used for duplicates search types.
   
• File size
  You can specify the minimum and maximum file size to include in the search. For example, you can set minimum file size to 2KB to ignore those small files as there are many which you don't interested in at all.
  
   
• Date
  You can specify the range of file date in the searching criteria. Date available to be selected are "Any","Last modified in last day", "last week", "last month and last year". You can also specify a specific date to search for.
   

Click [OK] to confirm your changes.