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Search Duplicate Files in Multiple Disks or Directories

DupScout is capable of searching duplicate files in a number of disks, directories or network shares. In order to detect duplicate files in multiple locations, open the duplicate files search profile dialog and specify all the disks, directories and/or network shares that should be processed.

Search Duplicate Files in Multiple Disks

By default, DupScout will process all the specified locations sequentially, one after one. When processing directories located on different physical disks or different computers, it may be more effective to process all the specified locations simultaneously.

Duplicate Files Search Advanced Options

In order to process all the specified locations in parallel, open the duplicate files search options dialog, select the 'Advanced' tab and specify the number of parallel processing threads for the duplicate files search operation.

DupScout News

3-Jun-2026

DupScout v18.2 improves the performance and the fault tolerance of the duplicate files search operations and improves the duplicate files search progress dialog. In addition, the new product version improves support for Unicode characters in file search rules and regular expressions, improves the main DupScout GUI application and fixes a number of bugs.

12-May-2026

DupScout v18.1 adds a new, adaptive duplicate files search mode, adds support for new file types to the built-in file classification plug-ins allowing one to search specific types of duplicate files and improves the duplicate files search statistics pie charts. In addition, the new version improves the duplicate files search options dialog, improves the DupScout command line utility and fixes a number of bugs.

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