Hello and welcome to the computer lab vids YouTube channel and in this video I
am going to show you how to find duplicate files and folders on a
Synology DS214 play, it will work on over Synology products as long as it's
using their DSM so first thing you need to do is open up web browser and browse
to your DSM window so mine is 192.168.0.49 yours might
be different but I will presume for this video that you know how to access your
DSM within your Synology play okay so next thing once you're in the browser
window go to the main menu in the top left hand corner and the item that we
are looking for is called storage analyzer so you might not be able to see it
if its not installed so go up to package Center. Once package Center has
refreshed go into the search box and just start to type storage in the window
as you can see I'm doing here and if yours is not installed of an icon that
says install obviously click to install it mine's already on installed and
running so I can just go back into the main menu and click on storage analyzer
to open the program that we need ok so you can see here I already have created
two reports. These two that I use you have ones running regular and one just a
one-off report and the top window that you can see flashing by is just the
volume just going across the two pages in two different views so okay so go
down to under where it says report profile click create bring this window up
and then we just need to click Next to get to the next window okay so the first
thing we need to put in is the report task so I'm just going to call it
something obvious so find duplicates videos the window underneath is if you
want the report emailing to you can do so you can just put your email address
in there and the report rotation if you set it up on a schedule, how many times
is going to do, before it will delete the older ones.
I'll set mine to maximum number report to five put my email address in so I can
get a copy of that report sent to me once it has completed click on next, now
we need to tell Synology or the DSM which type of report we want - so they're
all selected at moment so I'm going to uncheck all of them and I want to look
for duplicate file candidates and that's the only one I want highlighted so I'll
tick that and click Next now here's where I can do a scheduler for want to do or
I've can do a single report obviously in the schedule I can do it daily could do
it weekend's, weekdays and you can put when the report while it's generating
obviously I'm not going to do that for this video I'm just going to just do a
quick report now so I just want to do the immediate report so make sure you
generate reports now and I click Next ok so now it's saying which folder do
you want to scan what area is it to do the whole of your drive so you just
select the top box so it highlights all your folders and files I'm just going to
do a single folder in my drive and one that's already labeled this video so I'm
gonna scan this folder for duplicates click Next now obviously you can see
find duplicate files when generating reports, Ignore modified time that's
basically asking say well don't take into consideration if it was created at
the same time just look at all the files and the other one which is ignore filenames
if I tick that I'm gonna leave that one blank at the moment so it's not gonna
look at the actual file names it's just gonna look for anything that it thinks
is similar for the types of files and folders it's scanning and then obviously
anything in guest folder as well once that's correct
we can then click Next. Just one last thing the number of duplicate files that's
if you're doing obviously a large scan you can ask you to only do a hundred or
ten if you don't want it to take up a lot of time but you want to
find them the most duplicated files and you'll see what I mean by that in the
size wise admit when the report is generated so you can change it to
whatever you want i will put that to 150 click Next, this is just the summary sort of looking
down at the top the report task is to find duplicate videos it's gonna email
the report to this email and put it in there it's only going to do five reports
then rotate them it's gonna look for duplicate file candidate, it's not
scheduled to do it every every time I've set it to it's going to do the report
now only in the videos folder and then the rest is pretty obvious find, confirm
duplicate files and ignore modified time ignore file names click on the apply and
now it will go off and do the report it shouldn't take this long at all if I
just drag this bottom box just so you can see what's going on you'll see there
right at the bottom of the find a duplicate videos it's running currently
Like I say it should not take to long as I've already run one similar to this before creating
this video. OK so now it's finished and just to the right just a little arrow that
says analyse this report tasks you click on the little blue arrow and it will
take you to the report so I'll just maximize this you can see a bit better
but looking on the usage side on the far left you can see what currently selected
it's scan the video folder it's telling me who is using that folder myself and
admin and the file types that are in there for different bits and pieces that
are in there and it's highlighted them as well the main one for this video is
duplicate files we want so click on duplicate and now this is where we get
to which files and folders that we can see that are duplicated on our Synology
disk station so click on duplicates and it sorted them by size and you can see
right at the top there is where it's found two of the same files and then the
one underneath it the size of that actual file and if I wanted to I can
just push the delete one I don't want to actually delete this but that particular
video but you can just delete some singular as you go along then just get
rid of the ones you don't want really good tool you can
actually delete them directly and you can actually see where the file and folder
is liked it's really nice Synology tool and last one is which is a
good one as well don't let you actually delete these files direct from here but
the one that's underneath duplicates, which is Size and you can see the biggest
files that was found in that folder so if I wanted to delete this particular
video here which is 8 gb click on the link takes me to that and just
right-click and delete you can't do it directly within the the window we're
in at the moment when you're working in that size one but you can
when you're working within duplicates. OK so that's the end of the video I hope
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