This tutorial guides you through using the find duplicates function in FileForge. You will learn how to locate and archive duplicate files efficiently to keep your folders organized.
1. Access Organize Tab
The first thing you want to do is make sure you are on the Organize tab. From there, you can see the Find Duplicates function, and we'll go ahead and select that.
2. Preview Duplicate Search Details
Similar to any other FileForge function, it will provide you with a preview of what it's going to do before you proceed with the function. Based on this description, it tells me that it's going to find my duplicate files and move those to an archive folder.
3. Examine Folder Contents And Duplicates
Now, before we run this, let's take a look at our example folder here and see what data is within it. So right now, I'm linked to a folder that contains two subfolders, both of images and PDFs. There are duplicate images in my images folder of a rubber duck. My expectation is that when this process completes, one of these rubber duck images will be moved into a duplicate folder so that, as a user, I can decide whether to retain or delete that duplicate file.
4. Proceed With Duplicate Search
We'll close out this window and we'll hit proceed.
5. Confirm Archive And Access Link
Okay, wonderful. It let me know that it moved and archived one file and provides me with a link to that archive folder. Let's open up that archive folder and see what it found.
6. Decide On Duplicate File Options
Wonderful. So it did go ahead and find one of those rubber duck images and moved it to my duplicate folder. At this point, as a user, I can decide whether or not I want to delete this image or simply just keep it in a duplicate folder so that it does not interfere with my original copy. And that concludes the find duplicates function in FileForge.
You have successfully used FileForge's find duplicates function to identify and archive duplicate files. You can now review archived duplicates and decide whether to keep or delete them.
