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Here are your search results.
On the left of your screen you see a tree with all files found. Since we looked for doubles for each file in the tree there is at least one other file also in the tree that is exactly equal to it. We state this obvious fact because it sometimes can be confusing when you start deleting or removing files. If a file x is equal to y and you delete x, y will also disappear from this lit, although not deleted, it doesn't have any other file anymore with which it is equal.
You choose a file on the left and on the right you see its details. (Path, Name, Size, Date/time) and a list of files with which the chosen file is equal. There will be always at least one file in that list. Also here you can select a file to see its details below the list. Like this you can easily inspect what you have double.
With a file you can do two things (in this program), deleting it or removing it from the list. When you delete it the file gets erased from you drive and of course also disappear from this list. If you remove the file from this list it will be not deleted but only not shown in this list anymore. As we saw before, deleting and removing can have as a consequence that other files also get removed from this list. This also implicates that you will not succeed using only FindDoubleFiles, to remove all copies of one file. Of each file at least one will remain because it already gets removed from the list before you can delete it.
For you ease you can also at once remove all files that are equal to the selected file, leaving the selected file existing but removed from the list.
The 'Delete all doubles' button deletes all doubles from your disk, leaving only one unique file for each file existing. After this the list of search results is empty, no doubles exist any more to be listed.
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