abylon SHREDDER > Dupe finder

1. Side selection of the abylon SHREDDER Following pages are available in the abylon SHREDDER:
2. Add Opens a dialogue for directory selection. The selected directories are searched for duplicate files and the result show in list 5.
3. Reset Reset list 5 and remove all entries.
4. Open Open the selected file 5 with the appropriate program.
5. File list Display all duplicate files in the selected directories. Identical files are show in the same color. 

  During the search operation each characters of the files are compared (Exclusion Fastmode). Also files with different names are found.
6. High-speed search The High-speed search option speeds up the search process. In this case only the beginning and end of the file are compared.
7. Wipe-level The wipe- level can be defined with the slide control:
  • Level 0
    Remove the links (correspond to the normal deletion in the File Explorer)
  • Level 1
    Overwrite the data 1 times (Binary Zeros)
  • Level 2
    Overwrite the data 3 times (DOD - Standard = 1. Random Numbers + 2. Binary F + 3. Binary Zeros)
  • Level 3
    Overwrite the data 7 times (DOD II - Standard = 3x Binary Zeros +  3x F + 1x Random Numbers)
  • Level 4
    Overwrite the data 13 times (3x Random Numbers + DOD - II + 2x Random Numbers + 1x Binary Zeros)
  • Level 5
    Overwrite the data 35 times (Peter Gutman Method - Description see document)

  A higher wipe- level is safer but needs more time!
8. Wipe Fastmode Fast wiping of header information from large files. In this case 10 percent of the beginning and the end of the file are deleted, whereby you can saving up to 80 percent of time. Files smaller 10 MB are wiping complete also in the fastmode.
9. Wipe file(s) Wipe the selected files in list 5.

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