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- I wrote A.S.H. to allow you to control your disk space usage by
- discovering files that are duplicated and, should you so wish, deleting
- one or more of these duplicates.
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- A.S.H. offer also a visual directory explorer, that is a graphical pie
- representation of your drives and directories and other interesting
- statistical charts.
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- There are many ways in which duplicate files can be deposited on your
- hard disk, for example programs which don't check to see if you have a
- particular DLL installed and install their own private copy in any case,
- or other programs that install a DLL in your \Windows directory when it is
- already in \Windows\System.
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- Internet is another great duplicates producer, because of the cache directories
- and also because all of us collect graphical, text and zip files around.
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- A.S.H. scans your drives to find duplicate files.
- First it scans all the directories and collects information about all the
- files it finds, than it sorts the file list into size order and checks for
- duplicate.
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- To ensure files are really duplicate A.S.H. uses a CRC32 algorithm over the
- whole file. This process can take some time, especially for the first
- (and longest files) of the list, but in such a way you can be sure only
- really duplicate files are reported to be so.
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- A.S.H. makes also a file name comparison and creates a list of same name files,
- so you can check if there are different version of the same DLL or file.
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- A.S.H. provides also other useful information and hints, as:
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- list of directories where you have many little files over big drives;
- list of totally duplicated directories;
- list of zero size files;
- list of temporary files;
- list of not used files and directories;
- list of broken windows links;
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- You have the possibility to delete files from A.S.H. itself (to Recycle bin),
- but be warned, you take sole responsibility if you choose to delete a file
- because A.S.H. makes no attempt to check if the file is in use or key to the
- functioning of your computer.
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- You can also archive file in the special ASH Tray and delete it later when
- you are sure.
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- Generally:
- if you aren't sure, then never delete a file; leave it alone.
- if you are positive you know it's all right to delete it, then still donÆt,
- just archive or rename it for a short period.
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- A.S.H. is a very powerful and easy to use utility, but like most powerful
- utility, it allows you to make lots of damage, so use it carefully.
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- Even if you donÆt use A.S.H. to delete duplicate files, you can take advantage
- from it using the visual space explorer or the other features
- (i.e. you can use A.S.H. to plan your partition size before to migrate on a
- new hard disk and more....).
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- Please report me about installation problems or bug:
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- Mario Pacchiarotti
- Support & Development, Jimjams
- mailto: mario@jimjams.com
- web: http://www.jimjams.com
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