I installed Ashampoo app because they required it for a program I purchased. I don’t think you can install any Ashampoo software without this??? It, or the Duplicate File Folder program contains something that Microsoft identified as potential malware, which I excluded. The program itself is not very good. It took well over 2.5 hours to scan 1.2TB of files. There is no way to fine control what it scans other than designating a drive — you can’t choose a type of file like videos, documents, pictures or music. Then it includes
- every
file history entry ever made in the duplicates findings, so I got thousands of duplicates. Once you have the findings you can theoretically exclude something but I did not see how to exclude file history as a batch process — just for each individual “duplicate” found. To me this is useless and I uninstalled the program. This is too bad because most Ashampoo software is good. I have been using Music Studio and Burning Studio for years, YMMV but this Duplicate File Finder is a fail for me.