DigitalVolcano Software Support

Feature Request: Remove Empty Folders:

(1) Please add a folder selection pane tree on the left. Like on your Scan Location page or Windows Explorer left pane, but with checkboxes to select the folder(s) to scan. Same as 4dots' Empty Folder Cleaner https://www.4dots-software.com/emptyfoldercleaner ...

I still don't see a way to update DC when an HDD drive letter changes. :( So.. rescan.

When "not connected" is identified, then there should be a right-click command to pick the location of the drive. DC can then check that the volume name matches.

Ideally, DC would be able to identify a drive by ...

An Example: From the Duplicate Folders list, there's four copies of this 24GB folder but I can see that they all have a parent folder named 2019-Mi, which is on 4 drives. So, I want to filter on all folders named "2019-Mi" and dedup them all at once.

L:\_Seagate4TB\_Phones\_2019-Mi\Mi-32GB-USB2 ...

Took 2.5 hours to complete the scan. Each drive had at least 2 files for MD5 and a data drive that I didn't touch had 231 new MD5 file calculations. Maybe since my active Data and Windows drives are adding files, some are new (unique) sizes that now match files on that drive. (?) As the user, I know ...

How can I efficiently use Duplicate Cleaner?

I am searching 25 TB on 14 drives. The first scan took 24 hours to find 10 million duplicate files and 46,000 duplicate folders. A re-scan of the directories (Discovering Files alone, before matching duplicates starts) takes 1.5 hours.

After the first ...

Yes please!
Discovering Files: One drive at a time.
Calculating Hashes (MD5 Partial): All drives at once
Calculating Hashes (MD5): All drives at once

Why is the initial directory scan (discovering files) one drive at a time? This appears to be one place to significantly speed up the program.

When ...

One of my 1.5 TB source drives and one 5 TB backup drive are failing and can only be partially read.

I have a full directory listing, including MD5, created by WinCatalog in June 2022. I can export a csv file from WinCatalog. I would love to be able to convert that into a virtual folder (.dcvirtual ...

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Test folder: 230GB 268,000 files 14,000 folders

Duplicate Cleaner - create virtual folder using MD5:
with Windows Defender active: 35 minutes
with Windows Defender inactive: 11 minutes

Windows Explorer - copy folder from nvme drive 1 to nvme drive 2: 8 minutes ...

Syncovery's author says that its safe to turn off antivirus because the file is read but no way for a virus to run. I assume the same is true for Duplicate Cleaner but would like confirmation.

I'll do the same style exclusion for Duplicate Cleaner:

Add the Process Exclusion: C:\Program Files ...

Is it safe to turn off antivirus when the drives were previously scanned by antivirus program?

i.e. When Duplicate Cleaner is performing MD5 (or binary) calculations on the contents of a file, is the file being opened in a way that a virus in it could be run? My impression is that anti-virus ...