Potential Duplicate Files report helps you to identify the duplicate files within a given share. It enables you to take informed decisions about reclaiming storage. Note that duplicate file detection is per share only. Data Insight does not detect duplicate files across shares.

Two files are considered to be duplicate if they have the same logical file size and the same file extension. The 0-byte duplicate files such as shortcuts to the original files are ignored for the purpose of this report.

This report provides a graphical summary of the following:

In the output, the duplicate paths are categorized by their file extensions. Additionally, the file extensions are sorted in the descending order of reclaimable storage. For a given file extension, the paths are further arranged in sets of related duplicates. For example, if Foo1 and Foo2 and Foo3 are duplicates of each other, they belong to the same set of duplicates. These files are displayed in rows placed next to each other. Potentially duplicate sets are sorted in the descending order of reclaimable storage space.