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First time user

Posted: 28 Apr 2025, 12:01
by whitepaw
My first search was for duplicates of all photo's & images in my C Drive. I found many duplicates within the over 3000 files located but never less than 2 "duplicates" Can I safely delete all of the duplicates found knowing that there will still be one *original* (still in the C Drive?) of every duplicated file found?

In any group, is the first file the "original" and all subsequent files duplicates? (hence why AllDup Support say I cannot safely delete ALL files in a group)

In "File Manager - process selected files" "Which groups should be processed", is the pre-ticked box "Do not process groups with all files selected" there because the first file in every group is an original? (and hence why I should perhaps "select all files except the first file in each group"

Note that I want to delete ALL duplicates within my search criteria and because they all have file extentions of PNG, JPG,GIF & BMP, I am confident there should not be any system files amongst these.

Many thanks in advance.

Re: First time user

Posted: 12 May 2025, 09:20
by Administrator
There is no original file, only files that are displayed as duplicates in a group based on your search criteria. As a first-time user, you should not delete files from your search results unless you are absolutely sure that you no longer need them!