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How to…?

Drag a folder on a Duplicarius window, the app icon in Finder or Dock, or pick with the ‘Open’ command in the ‘File’ menu. Then click ‘Find Duplicates’.
Duplicarius will scan the selected folder, and optionally its subfolders, for duplicate files. It lists every group of duplicates in the left list. Selecting a group of duplicates in the left list will show the individual files, and some file information, in the right list.

Which files are considered to be duplicates

Duplicarius looks at the data in a file, and, if existing, the data in the resource fork of the file. It calculates a checksum (SHA256) of this data and then compares the checksums. Duplicarius does not take into account metadata like creation and modification dates, owner, group and permissions, or extended attributes.

Handling of some edge cases can be configured in the preferences. When in doubt, leave these options at their defaults.

Toggle

The ‘Toggle’ command behaves slightly differently depending on which list is focused. When used in the left list, it will either unflag all files of the group, or flag files based on the ⇢ flagging rules (like auto flagging does, but just for the selected group).
When used in the right list, it will toggle the selected file in the same way as directly clicking the checkbox would.

Auto Flag

Auto Flag flags files in each duplicate group based on ⇢ customizable rules.

Duplicarius will not modify files

Duplicarius will never change the contents of files. When asked to, it will:

move files to a folder
move files into the trash. If a volume does not support the trash (e.g. network volumes), Duplicarius will ask if the file should be deleted immediately (very similar to the way the Finder does this).

Please note that some versions of macOS have a bug that reports a file couldn’t be written when in fact, due to insufficient permissions, it couldn’t be read. Again: Duplicarius will never modify the content of your files.

I see a warning symbol

A warning symbol indicates a situation that is not fatal but may result in an outcome that is not intended. Hover the cursor over the symbol or click it to see what is causing this.

Contact

Please send bug reports, questions, feature requests, etc. to: duplicarius_0x40fluthaus_0x2Ecom *

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