Within its Preferences window, you can exclude certain folders from the app’s scans.
The Trash isn’t emptied, however, so you’re welcome to check it one final time before you finally delete the files within (by manually emptying the Trash).īare bones though it is, Duplicate Detective offers a couple of customization options. Once you’ve done so, click Clean, and those duplicates are moved to the Trash. A list of all the selected-to-delete files appears, so you can verify your selections. (You choose, in the app’s Preferences window, whether Auto Select saves the newest or oldest version.) Duplicate Detective’s results window shows all the versions of each file.
Alternatively, the Auto Select button automatically chooses either the newest or oldest version within each group. Within the duplicate list you can choose to keep the newest or oldest version from within the selected group (based on modification date if those are identical, the app uses the creation date). For other types of files, you see a preview icon.) This means that for supported file types-image, audio, video, and text files, for example-you see a preview of the file’s contents right in the Duplicate Detective window. (Duplicate Detective uses Quick Look to show previews. Select an item in the list and, to the right, a preview appears with the duplicates listed below-you can see the name of each, along each version’s path, size, and modification date. (Each group contains all the duplicate versions of a particular file.) You can filter this list, using buttons at the top of the window, to display only folders, images, docs, audio files, archives (for example. Once Duplicate Detective’s scan is complete, you can see the number of duplicates, as well as the space you’ll save by deleting them.Ĭlick Next, and you’ll see a list of duplicate groups on the left side of the window.
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