Users are provided with the ability to search duplicate files, save reports, replace duplicates with links, delete duplicate files or move duplicate files to another location.

DupScout is a duplicate files search and removal solution allowing one to search duplicate files in disks, directories, network shares or NAS storage devices. The user is provided with the ability to review detected duplicate files, generate reports, replace duplicate files with shortcuts or hard links, move duplicate files to another directory, compress and move duplicates or delete all duplicate files.

DupScout allows one to save HTML, text, Excel CSV, PDF and XML reports. Advanced users are provided with the ability to export reports from multiple servers to a centralized SQL database and perform history trend analysis operations.

DupScout Command Line Utility

In addition to the desktop application, DupScout Ultimate and DupScout Server provide a command line utility allowing one to perform automated duplicate files search and removal operations or control one or more DupScout Servers via the network. The DupScout command line utility provides a large number of command line options allowing one to search duplicate files, save HTML, PDF, text, Excel CSV and XML reports, export duplicate files to an SQL database and execute duplicate files removal actions.

The DupScout command line utility may be used to execute duplicate file search profiles pre-configured in the DupScout GUI application. Power computer users and IT professionals are provided with the ability to fully-automate duplicate files search and removal operations by integrating the DupScout command line utility into custom shell scripts and batch files.

DupScout Server

In addition, to the desktop product versions, enterprises and IT professionals are provided with two server-based product versions, DupScout Server and DupScout Enterprise, which run in the background as a service and allow one to search duplicate files in servers and NAS storage devices over the network. Server-based product versions are especially optimized for multi-core and multi-CPU servers and can search duplicate files in tens of servers and/or NAS storage devices simultaneously.

The server product versions provide advanced duplicate files search, removal, reporting and history trend analysis capabilities and may be controlled using a full-scale client GUI application and the DupScout command line utility locally or via the network.

The DupScout Server client GUI application provides a full set of features available in the desktop product version and additional capabilities allowing one to perform multiple, parallel duplicate files search operations, schedule periodic duplicate files search operations and perform history trend analysis operations.

Finally, DupScout Enterprise provides a web-based management interface allowing one to control one or more servers using a regular web browser through the network and provides the ability to perform duplicate files search operations, save various types of reports, perform history trend analysis, remove duplicate files, schedule periodic duplicate files search operations, etc.

What's New

DupScout v15.9 adds the ability to perform batch duplicate files search operations on hundreds of network shares and save duplicate file search reports for each processed network share in the DupScout reports database. In addition, the new product version improves the DupScout Server product version and fixes a number of bugs.

  • Improves the duplicate files pie charts dialog
  • Redesigns the file delete options dialog
  • Redesigns the file copy options dialog
  • Improves the main DupScout GUI application
  • Fixes a number of bugs