Options

General

Add AllDup to the context menu of the Windows Explorer

Activate this option so that you can start a search process with a folder via the context menu of Windows Explorer.

Unicode-Text Support

This option enables AllDup to display Unicode characters from languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian.

File Date Display Format

Here you can specify the display format of the file date at the search result.

Application data folder

Here you can view and open the folder were AllDup stores the application data.

Folder for temporary files

At this folder AllDup will extract files from archives or create files necessary for the file preview. All temporary files that have been created after the search for duplicate files was started will be automatically deleted after closing the search result.

User Interface

Here you can set the font and background color of the AllDup user interface.

Log

Delete entries from log file when they are more than ...

This option causes entries to be automatically removed from the log file after a specified number of days.

Search Result

External program for comparing the contents of two files:

This option enables you to specify an external file comparison utility to be used with two highlighted files at the search result. Right-click two highlighted files at the search result and use the command 'Compare highlighted files'. The two highlighted files from the search result have to be specified via the wildcards %1 and %2. Example: C:\Windiff.exe %1 %2

%1 = "C:\Data\db.txt"
%2 = "X:\Backup\abc.txt"
%3 = C:\Data
%4 = X:\Backup
%5 = db.txt
%6 = abc.txt

Compare these file types using Microsoft Word:

This option enables you to specify various file extensions that will be opened with the compare function of Microsoft Word. Each of the file extensions has to be separated by a comma. Example: doc,docx,rtf

External Program to open a folder

This option enables you to specify an external program to be used to open a folder.
Example: explorer.exe "%1"
The placeholder %1 will be replaced with file path & file name and the placeholder %2 with the file path only:
%1 = "C:\Data\db.txt"
%2 = "C:\Data\

External Program to open with file(s)

This option enables you to specify an external program to be used to open with all highlighted files.
Example: C:\texteditor.exe %1
The placeholder %1 with be replaced with all highlighted files: "file1" "file2" ...