Let's say you have music files under C:\MUSIC and D:\TEMP\AUDIO. If you know where the files reside (approximately), it will be much better to extract only the folders involved, narrowing the number of files checked. A naive approach would be to flatten all the files and folders in your system starting from My Computer folder, and check for duplicates among all your files - but that would take ages. The simple Check duplicates menu first flattens the local folder hierarchy, extracting all files in all subfolders, then uses the command parameters to discover duplicate files. All it needs is a scrap window with a collection of files, then it checks the files present for duplicates. Xplorer² duplicate checking engine doesn't care about locations. How can you discover such duplicates lying far away in the filesystem? You may have placed duplicate pictures, videos or whatever on both an old external and your new hard disk. There all we had to do was browse the parent folder and use Tools > Check duplicates menu command. Some time ago I blogged about finding duplicate MP3 files in a simple situation, where all files where known to reside under a single parent folder. ■ Discover duplicate files on different partitions
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