DupScout Editor's Review

Dupscout is a handy utility you can use for eliminating duplicate files from your directories. Dupscout is freeware, which means that using it is free of charge. There is also a Pro version which has a lot more options to help you find duplicates, but I guess this free version does a pretty good job.

The application is very easy to use due to its nice design and skinnable interface. You can use it to quickly detect duplicate files within a directory and move, delete or replace duplicate files with links.
Once you've selected a directory (folder) to seek for duplicates in, you can choose to exclude directories from the scan, reducing scan time. Duplicate files can be detected by several criteria: signature type (MD5 checksum, SHA1, SHA256), file scanning mode(sequential, parallel) or you can set the maximum dup file sets.

Duplicate search jobs can be saved as profiles in order to ease the scanning process.

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In conclusion: Since it's a freeware application, it only features basic functions. However, it does a pretty good job.

version reviewed: 1.2.20