CD Duplibase - Help

Contents

• * Frequently Asked Questions
• 0. About
• 1. Main Window
• 2. "Add Volume" Dialog
• 3. "Search Results" Dialog

0. About

Duplibase Software introduces a new approach to handling big quantities of CD/DVD media. In simple case you need a CD/DVD database only for searching some files (software, video/audio/...). There are many such programs.

But when you have a new folder with many many new files, you simply don't know if these files new or you already have some of them on some CD/DVD. If you want to delete files that you have somewhere, you need to find them first. But how?

CD Duplibase finds duplicate files very quickly with using database technologies. Note that CD Duplibase finds not local duplicates in local folders (on hard drive). CD Duplibase finds all duplicates from any CD/DVD that you've added to database.

Example 1.

John downloads many software from Internet and saves all files in folder "New Files". From time to time he burns CD disks with software.

But when he has about 70 CDs, he can't remember all software that he has on disks. Also he can't remember what files have duplicates (burned on CD) and what files are new (not burned anywhere).

Then John uses CD Duplibase :

and detects that 623 files from this folder have duplicates on some disks:

Then he can delete them by selecting all and pressing "Delete...".

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1. Main window

The main window has two significant buttons on a toolbar: "Add New Volume" and "Get Duplicates":

* Use "Add New Volume" when you want to add file structure of a CD/DVD disk or a folder to the database.
* Use "Get Duplicates" when you want to compare contents of a folder with the database and to get list of a duplicates within this folder.

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2. "Add Volume" Dialog

Volume is any media that can have folders and files inside. For example, it's a Floppy, CD, DVD, Flash drive, Hard drive or some folder on some device.

To add the new volume, go to Database|Add new volume... menu or just press the "Add new volume" button on main toolbar.

The dialog "Add volume" will appear. Select drive or folder that you want to add in database, type volume name and press "Scan" button.

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3. "Search results" Dialog

In the files list you can see some files from scanned folder. Program detected that these files has duplicates in volumes that you added to database before (like described in right bottom text box on picture).

So you can:

• Delete these files (you already have them on some devices), or
• Move them to some folder for backup purposes, or
• Copy them to some folder for backup purposes;