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AllDup Version History

4.5.64

Date: 24 Oct 2024

• UPD: The simplified Chinese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Korean translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The UI rendering component has been updated.
• UPD: The external component '7-Zip' for unpacking archive files has been updated.
• UPD: The external component for the plug-in 'Media Info Viewer' has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5.62

Date: 09 July 2024

• NEW: Search method 'Find Similar File Names': Added comparison method 'Ignore characters at the beginning of a file name'.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The French translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Dutch translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Polish translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The UI rendering component has been updated.
• UPD: The external component for unpacking RAR files has been updated.
• UPD: The external component '7-Zip' for unpacking archive files has been updated.
• UPD: The external component for the plug-in 'Media Info Viewer' has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5.60

Date: 16 Feb 2024

• NEW: Search Result / 'Select' menu: Added 'Select all corrupted audio files' command.
• NEW: Search result / 'Select files by name': Added 'Case-sensitive search' option.
• NEW: Search result / 'Select files by path': Added 'Case-sensitive search' option.
• UPD: The search method 'Find video & audio files on the basis of the audio length' now also supports the TS video format.
• UPD: The French translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Korean translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The simplified Chinese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• INFO: AllDup can no longer be used on the following Windows versions: XP, Vista, Server 2003/2008.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5.58

Date: 13 Dec 2023

• NEW: Options / General: Under Windows 10/11, file types and folders can now be excluded from monitoring by Windows Defender, thereby increasing AllDup's working speed.
• NEW: Search Result / 'Select' menu: Added 'Select all corrupted image files' command.
• NEW: Search result / 'Select' menu: Added 'Select files by date' command.
• NEW: Search result / 'Deselect' menu: Added 'Deselect files by date' command.
• NEW: Search result / 'Deselect' menu: Added 'Deselect files by size' command.
• NEW: Search result / Context menu 'Copy to clipboard': Added 'File name without extension' command.
• UPD: Search result: The input mask for the command 'Select/deselect files by name' has been expanded.
• UPD: Search result: The input mask for the command 'Select/deselect files by path' has been expanded.
• UPD: Search result: The input mask for the command 'Select/deselect files by size' has been expanded.
• UPD: Search Result / Export: More than 1,048,576 rows can now be exported to an Excel file.
• UPD: The external component for the plug-in 'Media Info Viewer' has been updated.
• UPD: The UI rendering component has been updated.
• UPD: The French translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5.56

Date: 25 Nov 2023

• NEW: Under Windows 64-bit, AllDup can now use up to 4 GB of RAM to search for duplicate files (previously max. 2 GB).
• UPD: The logging of the search statistic has been optimized.
• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The database component has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5.54

Date: 12 Nov 2023

• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Italian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Search Result: When frequently switching the preview between groups and files, created GDI objects were not released, which could lead to a memory error.

4.5.52

Date: 03 Nov 2023

• UPD: Search Result / File Preview: The position of the splitter bar between the search result and the file preview is now saved and restored.
• UPD: Search Result / File Preview / Internet Explorer: The aspect ratio is now also displayed under an image.
• UPD: The French translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The UI rendering component has been updated.
• UPD: The external component for unpacking RAR files has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5.50

Date: 26 Sept 2023

• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The traditional Chinese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The search result display component has been updated.
• UPD: The UI rendering component has been updated.
• UPD: The external component for the plug-in 'Media Info Viewer' has been updated.
• UPD: The external component for unpacking RAR files has been updated.
• UPD: The external component '7-Zip' for unpacking archive files has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5.48

Date: 04 June 2023

• NEW: File Manager / 'Rename Files': With the new placeholder %CDATE%, the creation date of the file can be inserted into the new name.
• NEW: File Manager / 'Rename Files': With the new placeholder %MDATE%, the modification date of the file can be inserted into the new name.
• NEW: File Manager / 'Rename Files': With the new placeholder %PDATE%, the creation date of an image file (JPG, PNG, TIF) can be inserted into the new name.
• NEW: File Manager / 'Rename Files': With the new placeholder %GNAME%, the group name can be inserted into the new name of a file.
• NEW: File Manager / 'Rename Files': With the new placeholder %FNAME%, the name of the first file in a group can be inserted into the new name of a file.
• NEW: File Manager / 'Rename Files': With the new placeholder %LNAME%, the name of the last file in a group can be inserted into the new name of a file.
• UPD: File Manager / 'Rename Files': The placeholders must now be enclosed with a percent sign (%).
• UPD: File Manager / 'Rename Files': The filename placeholder %1 has been renamed to %NAME%.
• UPD: File Manager / 'Rename Files': The file extension placeholder %2 has been renamed to %EXT%.
• UPD: The AllDup manual has been revised.
• UPD: The English translation of the user interface and documentation has been revised.
• UPD: The simplified Chinese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5.46

Date: 10 May 2023

• NEW: Search options / After the search is complete: The button for selecting the sound file has been extended with the command 'Select sound file from the system folder Media'.
• UPD: The French translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Korean translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Italian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Polish translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5.44

Date: 05 May 2023

• NEW: Options / General: Added a button to register the AllDup context menu for Windows Explorer.
• UPD: The files for the AllDup context menu in Windows Explorer are no longer registered when AllDup is started on the Windows system.
• UPD: Search method 'Find similar pictures': The ICO extension has been added to the list of supported image formats.
• UPD: Search method 'Find duplicate files on the basis of their properties ': File properties selection is no longer reset when selecting a different search method.
• UPD: The external component for unpacking RAR files has been updated.
• UPD: The external component for the Plugin 'Media Info Viewer' has been updated.
• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Polish translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Czech translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5.42

Date: 18 Apr 2023

• UPD: Search result: The save dialog when closing the search result is now automatically closed after 10 seconds.
• UPD: The French translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Ukrainian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5.40

Date: 08 Apr 2023

• NEW: Options / General: With the option 'Integrate AllDup into the Windows Explorer context menu', you can now choose between 'Context menu with Unicode support' or 'Context menu without Unicode support'.
• UPD: The files for the AllDup context menu in Windows Explorer are now automatically registered on the Windows system each time AllDup is started.
• UPD: Database: A message is now displayed in the log if the database for the started search cannot be used because it is already being used by another AllDup instance.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5.38

Date: 23 Mar 2023

• NEW: Vietnamese translation of the user interface. (Translator: Khoa Nguyen)
• UPD: The Polish translation of the user interface has been updated.

4.5.37

Date: 11 Mar 2023

• UPD: AllDup's Windows Explorer context menu now supports multiple folders.
• UPD: The option 'Don't show this dialog again' has been added to the save dialog when closing the search result.
• UPD: The simplified Chinese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Korean translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5.35

Date: 08 Mar 2023

• NEW: AllDup's Windows Explorer context menu now supports Unicode and is now also available under Windows 11.
• UPD: The table with the saved search results can now be sorted using the column headers.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The French translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: Portuguese translation of the installation files.
• UPD: Traditional Chinese translation of the installation files.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5.33

Date: 01 Mar 2023

• NEW: Search method 'Find similar pictures': PNG files with a 64-bit color palette are now supported.
• NEW: Translation: The language file 'installer.txt' with the English texts for the installation files has been added to the 'lang' subfolder.
• NEW: Main Window / Toolbar / Language: With the new command 'Open language file installer.txt' the language file with the English texts of the installation files can be opened.
• UPD: Danish translation of the installation files. (Translator: Torben Skalshoej)
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5.31

Date: 17 Feb 2023

• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Search method 'File content' / Comparison Method 'Byte by byte': Files of the same size were incorrectly recognized as duplicates since version 4.5.30.

4.5.30

Date: 17 Feb 2023

• NEW: Danish translation of the user interface. (Translator: Torben Skalshoej)
• UPD: Search method 'File content': Files with 0 bytes are now shown in the search result if the file filter 'Ignore files with 0 bytes' is disabled.
• UPD: Search result / Column 'Duration': Duration is now displayed without leading zeros for lengths longer than one minute. (0:02:36 -> 2:36)
• UPD: The simplified Chinese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The French translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Korean translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The traditional Chinese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The external component 'MediaInfo' for the Plugin 'Media Info Viewer' has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5.28

Date: 03 Feb 2023

• UPD: Source Folder List / Column 'File Protection': The file protection status of a source folder is now shown in the list with a lock icon.
• UPD: Source Folder List / Column 'File Protection': The info message when activating file protection is now only displayed once after each start of AllDup.
• UPD: Source Folder List / Column 'Subfolders': The status for processing the subfolders of a source folder is now shown in the list with a folder icon.
• UDP: Search result / Menu bar / File Protection: An activated file protection is now displayed with a lock symbol in front of the source folder.
• UPD: File Manager: An info is now displayed in the log if files were not processed because of the option 'Do not process groups with all files selected'.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Swedish translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5.26

Date: 01 Nov 2022

• NEW: Search result: The command 'Open only groups containing files with different names' can now be executed with and without considering the file extension.
• UPD: The external component '7-Zip' for unpacking archive files has been updated.
• UPD: The external component 'RAR' for unpacking RAR files has been updated.
• UPD: The external component 'MediaInfo' for the Plugin 'Media Info Viewer' has been updated.
• UPD: The French translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Italian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Korean translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5.24

Date: 06 Oct 2022

• NEW: Search method 'Find similar pictures': Added the comparison method 'mHash'.
• UPD: Command-Line: The -h option has been extended to include the 'mHash' comparison method.
• UPD: Command-Line: The -d option has been extended to include the comparison sizes 128x128, 256x256 and 512x512 for the 'bHash' comparison method.
• UPD: Search / Progress indicator: Horizontal and vertical scrollbars are now automatically displayed at low screen resolutions.
• UPD: Search / Progress indicator: The log window can now be resized using the splitter bar below the progress indicator.
• UPD: Documentation / Search method 'Find similar pictures': The comparison method 'aHash (64-bit)', 'mHash' and 'bHash (Precise)' were added to the table with the detection rate for the comparison methods.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The simplified Chinese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5.22

Date: 15 Aug 2022

• NEW: Korean translation of the user interface. (Translator: VenusGirl)
• UPD: Search result: When saving the search result, more information about the search method settings is now displayed in the comment. Example: "Find similar pictures (aHash) (80%) (16x16) (256-Bit)".

4.5.20

Date: 12 Aug 2022

• NEW: Search method 'Find similar pictures' / Image Formats / Context Menu: Add the menu command 'BMP, JPG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIF, WEBP'.
• UPD: Search method 'Find similar pictures': Image loading and conversion has been optimized which can lead to more accurate search results with fewer false positives. If you have saved the checksums in the database, then you should reset the database with this update.
• UPD: Documentation / Search method 'Find similar pictures': The table with the recognition rate for the comparison methods has been revised and the comparison method 'bHash' has been added.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5.18

Date: 11 July 2022

• UPD: The French translation of the previous version's user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Ukrainian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Czech translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5.16

Date: 08 Mar 2022

• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The simplified Chinese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The traditional Chinese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Dutch translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Polish translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5.14

Date: 22 Feb 2022

• NEW: The search method 'Find similar pictures' now supports the following image formats: 3FR, ARW, BMP, CR2, CRW, CUT, DCR, DIB, DNG, EMF, ERF, GIF, HDP, ICO, IFF, J2C, J2K, JP2, JPE, JPG, JPEG, JPX, JFIF, KDC, MDC, MEF, MOS, MRW, NEF, ORF, PEF, PBM, PCX, PGM, PNG, PPM, PSD, RAF, RAS, RAW, RW2, SRW, TGA, TIF, TIFF, RAS, RLE, WBMP, WEBP, WMF and X3F.
• NEW: Search method 'Find similar pictures': The file extensions of the supported image formats can now be individually activated for the search.
• NEW: File Manager / Action 'Delete files': With the new option 'Secure delete', the content is completely overwritten before deleting a file and the file size is set to 0.
• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The French translation of user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Spanish translation of user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5.13

Date: 25 Jan 2022

• NEW: File Manager / Action 'File Rename': Added the option 'Replace files with the same name'.
• UPD: The French translation of the previous version's user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the previous version's user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The simplified Chinese translation of the previous version's user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Russian translation of the previous version's user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Italian translation of the previous version's user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5.10

Date: 23 Dec 2021

• NEW: Options / User Interface: The font and background color of the user interface can now be set using the options 'Standard', 'Dark Mode' and 'Custom'.
• NEW: Options / User Interface: The font size for the texts in the toolbars can now be changed.
• NEW: Search Result / Menu 'Columns': Added option to show and hide the horizontal and vertical grid lines of the search result.
• NEW: Search Result: When loading the search result, a clear progress indicator is now shown in the window.
• UPD: Search Result / Menu 'Options': The options for the color configuration of the search result have been removed. These can now be configured in the main window under the options.
• UPD: Options / User Interface: The list with the designs of the toolbars is now sorted from light to dark.
• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The French translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The simplified Chinese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5.5

Date: 27 Nov 2021

• NEW: Search Result / Menu 'Select': Added the command 'Highlight all files'.
• NEW: The search method 'Find Similar Audio Files' supports now AIF/AIFF files.
• UPD: The 7-Zip component has been updated.
• UPD: The French translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The simplified Chinese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5.3

Date: 12 Nov 2021

• NEW: Plugin 'Image Viewer': Image files with the extensions HEIC and HEIF can now be displayed in the preview, provided that these file types are also displayed as a preview or thumbnail with Windows Explorer. Otherwise, an additional image extension such as the freeware 'CopyTrans HEIC' must be installed.
• UPD: The external component used by the Plugin 'Media Info Viewer' has been updated.
• UPD: The external component used for decompression of RAR files has been updated.
• UPD: The French translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Polish translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5.1

Date: 20 Oct 2021

• NEW: Database: The version and size of the database and the number of files and checksums saved are now displayed at the database tab.
• UPD: Database: The time required for the search when using the checksums from the database has been significantly reduced.
• UPD: Database Tool 'Cleanup': A progress bar is now displayed when checking for non-existing files.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The simplified Chinese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Dutch translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.5

Date: 13 Oct 2021

• NEW: Now you can store the calculated checksums during a scan for duplicate files into a database. That has the advantage that further file scans requires considerably less time because of the reuse of the stored checksums.
• NEW: Main Window / Toolbar: Added the button 'Database'.
• NEW: Database: The storage of the checksums can be individually activated for the search methods 'File Content', 'Similar Pictures' and 'Similar Audio Files'.
• NEW: Database: Option 'Recalculate checksum if the file size was changed'.
• NEW: Database: Option 'Recalculate checksum if the file modified date was changed'.
• NEW: Database / Tools: The button 'Cleanup' removes all checksums of files not exist anymore.
• NEW: Database / Tools: The button 'Reset' removes all checksums at the database.
• NEW: Database / Tools: The button 'New' deletes the current database file and creates a new database.
• NEW: Main Window / Source Folder List: Now all shared network folders and administrative shares (e.g. Admin$) will be listed at the menu entry 'Add Special Folder'.
• NEW: Main Window / Source Folder List: Added the column 'Info' to display drive names or Windows library names. Double-click to edit the information.
• NEW: Main Window / Filter Lists / Context Menu: Added the command 'Add standard filters'.
• NEW: Main Window / Archive Files: Now you can check/uncheck all archive types via a right mouse click on the option 'Scan the following archive types'.
• NEW: Search / Progress Details: Added a button to enlarge & reduce the size of the log window.
• NEW: Search Result / Toolbar 'Search': Now you can specify to search the groups and/or files.
• UPD: The French translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Chinese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• INFO: Windows 7 or higher is now required to install AllDup. Please use the Portable Edition if you want to use AllDup under Windows XP or Windows Vista.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.4.56

• NEW: Search Result / File / Context Menu: Added the command 'Move to the top of the group'.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Turkish translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.4.54

• NEW: Source Folder List / Context Menu: Added the command 'Add all special folders' at the menu item 'Add Special Folder'.
• NEW: Search / Progress Details / Archives: Added the button 'Cancel' to stop the process of the current archive file.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The French translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Chinese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.4.52

• NEW: Search Result / File Preview: Now you can preview pictures with the file extension WEBP.
• NEW: Search Result / Options / Group Preview: The option 'Show file properties in a single column' enables you to display all file properties in a single column.
• NEW: Search Result / Group / Context Menu: Added the command 'Reverse file selection'.
• NEW: Search Result / Files / Context Menu: Added the command 'Copy highlighted files'.
• NEW: Search Result / Files / Context Menu: Added the command 'Move highlighted files'.
• NEW: Search Result / File Manager / Actions: Added the option 'Delete file if Recycle Bin not exist'.
• UPD: Search Result / Group Preview 'Pictures': Added a checkbox to select/deselect the pictures directly at the preview pane.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The external component used for decompression of RAR files has been updated.
• UPD: The external component used by the Plugin 'Media Info Viewer' has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.4.47

• UPD: The French translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: The wrong display of the Beta status was removed.

4.4.46

• NEW: File Filter: Now you can exclude files from the search on the basis of the created/modified date.
• NEW: Search Result / Menu 'Select': Added the command 'Select only files without hard links'.
• NEW: Search Result / Menu Bar/ Options: Added the command 'Choose font'.
• UPD: File Manager: Now you can create more than 1024 hard links when using the option 'Create hard links'. Please read the new description at the help file.
• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The French translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Polish translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.4.44

• NEW: Search Method 'Find similar pictures' / 'Comparison method': Added the new hash method 'bHash' (Blockhash).
• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.4.42

• NEW: Search result / Menu bar / Remove: Added the command 'Remove all groups that contain only files stored in archives'.
• UPD: The Ukrainian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.4.40

• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Chinese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Polish translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: Various external components have been updated

4.4.38

• NEW: Search Method 'Find similar pictures' / 'Comparison method': The new hash methods 'MD5 (128-Bit)', 'SHA-1 (160-Bit)', 'SHA-2 (256-Bit)', 'SHA-2 (384-Bit)' and 'SHA-2 (512-Bit)' enables you to find exact picture duplicates.
• NEW: Search Method 'Find similar pictures': Now the checksum can be calculated either by using the entire picture or a smaller area of the picture. This enables you to find corrupted or incomplete pictures as duplicates.
• NEW: Search Method 'Find similar pictures': Added the option 'Picture area' to specify which picture area should be used to calculate the checksum.
• NEW: A splash screen will be shown while AllDup is launching.
• UPD: The Polish translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Ukrainian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.4.34

• NEW: Select Folder Dialog: Added the button 'Refresh folder view'.
• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Each time AllDup was started, the Windows explorer context menu of AllDup was automatically activated.

4.4.32

• NEW: Search result / Menu bar / Columns: Added the option 'Ignore column header text when optimizing column width'.
• UPD: The display of the user interface was optimized for Windows high contrast color schemes.
• UPD: The French translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Polish translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Chinese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

4.4.30

• NEW: The selection of the search method was revamped.
• NEW: The new search method 'Find video & audio files on the basis of the audio length' enables you to find video & music files with the same or almost same audio length.
• NEW: Search Method 'Find Similar Pictures': Added an option to compare only pictures with the same file name.
• NEW: Search Result: Now you can remove all marked files and groups from the search result via the Delete key.
• NEW: Command-Line: With the new parameter -sb you can search for video & audio files on the basis of the audio length.
• NEW: Command-Line: With the new parameter -sc you can search for files with similar names.
• NEW: Command-Line: With the new parameter -f you can specify the comparisons method for the search of similar file names (-sc).
• UPD: The Windows explorer context menu of AllDup has been revised.
• UPD: All language files were cleaned up. Missing text was added and unused text was removed.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The French translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Chinese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

4.4.28

• NEW: Search Result / Menu Bar / Remove: Added the command 'Remove all groups with some files selected'.
• NEW: Search Result / Menu Bar / Options: Added the option 'Minimize window to the notification area'.
• NEW: Search Result / Toolbar 'Search': Added the option 'Don't search group names'.
• UPD: File Manager: The option 'Close File Manager after action is completed' was renamed to 'After action is completed:' and now additionally enables to exit AllDup.
• UPD: The Polish translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Czech translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

4.4.26

• NEW: Search Result / Menu Bar / Remove: Added the command 'Remove all hard links from the search result'.
• UPD: The external component used for decompression of RAR files has been updated.
• UPD: The external component used by the Plugin 'Media Info Viewer' has been updated.
• UPD: The external component used to compare audio files has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

4.4.24

• UPD: The French translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Chinese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

4.4.22

• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Ukrainian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Polish translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

4.4.20

• UPD: Search Result / Shortcut Manager: Added the group context menu.
• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

4.4.18

• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Ukrainian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Polish translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup.

4.4.16

• NEW: Search Criteria 'File Name': Added the option 'Compare only characters at the end of a file name'.
• NEW: File Manager: Added the option 'Close File Manager after action is completed'.
• NEW: Search Result / Tool Bar 'Search': Added the option 'Ignore selected files'.
• NEW: Search Result / Menu 'Select': Added the command 'Select files by size' with the options 'smaller than', 'equal to' and 'larger than'.
• UPD: Search Method / Search Criteria 'File Content': The function to determine metadata inside JPEG/CR2 files was optimized.
• UPD: The Czech translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Italian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

4.4.14

• NEW: Turkish translation of the user interface. (Translator: Ömer Altiparmak)
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

4.4.12

• UPD: The Chinese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The French translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Polish translation of the user interface has been updated.

4.4.10

• NEW: Search Options: Added the option 'Determine duration, bit rate and sample rate of files with the following extensions (slower)'.
• NEW: Search Result: Added the columns 'Duration', 'Bit Rate' and 'Sample Rate'.
• UPD: Search Criteria 'File Content': The option 'Ignore Exif metadata of JPEG files' was renamed to 'Ignore metadata of JPEG/CR2 files'.
• UPD: Search Criteria 'File Content' / option 'Ignore metadata of JPEG/CR2 files': Only the compressed image data between the marker SOS and EOI will be compared.
• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Polish translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

4.4.8

• NEW: Search Result / File Context Menu: The new command 'Switch file names' enables you to switch the file names of two highlighted files.
• UPD: The French translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

4.4.6

• NEW: Source folder list: Now you can select or deselect all folders and folder options in the list with a single left-click on a column header.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

4.4.3

• UPD: The Chinese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

4.4

• NEW: Search Result: Now you can show up the file preview in a separate window.
• NEW: Search Result: Added the column 'Hardlink ID'.
• NEW: Search Result / Menu bar 'Remove': Added the command 'Remove all groups that contain only hard links with the same ID'.
• NEW: Search Result / Toolbar 'File': Added the option 'Show file preview in a separate window' at the button 'File Preview'.
• NEW: Search Result / Toolbar 'File': Added the option 'Make file preview window always on the top' at the button 'File Preview'.
• NEW: Search Result / Toolbar 'File': Added the option 'Show file preview window at the Windows taskbar' at the button 'File Preview'.
• NEW: Search Result / Shortcuts: The new live filter enables you to narrow down the command list.
• NEW: Search Result / Shortcuts: The new button 'Show only commands with hot keys' enables you a quick overview of all shortcuts.
• NEW: Search Result / Shortcuts: Now you can define hot keys for the commands of the context menu 'Highlighted files'.
• NEW: Search Result / File Preview: The new status bar below the file preview window shows several file information e.g. file name, file size, picture dimension or audio/video length.
• NEW: Search Result / File Preview / VLC Player: Added the button 'Resize video to fit window size'.
• NEW: Plugin-Lists / Context menu: Added the commands 'Select all' and 'Deselect all'.
• NEW: File Manager: Added a log window.
• UPD: File Manager: After reaching the maximum count of 1023 hard links per file all other selected files at the group will be skipped.
• UPD: File Manager: When creating new hard links the columns 'Hard links' and 'Hard link ID' will be updated at the search result.
• UPD: Plugin 'VLC Media Player': Now the file axvlc.dll will be automatically registered at your Windows system if you have manually integrated the VLC Media Player into AllDup's installation folder. See instructions at the manual (Main window -> File preview -> PlugIn 'VLC Media Player').
• UDP: Plugin-List 'Internet Explorer': Added the following file extensions: bmp, cab, dib, emf, ico, jpeg, svg, txt, wmf, zip.
• UPD: Plugin-List 'VLC Player': Added the following file extensions: 3g2, 3gp2, 3gpp, 669, a52, adt, adts, amv, aob, ape, asx, au, bik, caf, divx, drc, dv, dvr-ms, evo, f4v, flac, gvi, gxf, it, m2t, m2ts, m2v, m4a, m4p, m4v, mka, mlp, mod, mp1, mp2v, mp4v, mpc, mpeg1, mpeg2, mpeg4, mpga, mpv2, mts, mtv, mxf, nsv, nuv, oga, ogv, ogx, oma, opus, qcp, ra, rec, rm, rmvb, rpl, s3m, sdp, spx, thp, tod, tp, ts, tta, tts, vob, voc, vqf, vro, w64, webm, wtv, wv, xa, xesc and xm.
• UPD: Plugin 'Image Viewer': Now you can view camera raw image files with the following extensions: 3FR, ARW, CR2, CRW, DCR, ERF, KDC, MDC, MEF, MOS, MRW, NEF, ORF, PEF, RAF, RAW, RW2, SRW and X3F.
• UPD: Multi-Monitor-Support: Now the size, position and state of AllDup's window will be saved and restored correctly when using multiple monitors.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

4.3.2

• NEW: File Manager / Options: Added the option 'Show log after the selected action is completed'.
• UPD: Search Result / Toolbar 'Search': A new icon inside the search box was added to indicate that the search was successfully or nothing was found.
• UPD: The French translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Ukrainian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

4.3.1

• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Chinese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

4.3

Main Window

• NEW: Source folder list: Now you can activate a file protection for each source folder. The file protection enables that no files will be deleted, moved or renamed inside the source folder.
• NEW: Profile list: Added the editable column 'Comment'.
• NEW: Main Toolbar: Now the button 'Log' shows the log of the last search inside the program.
• NEW: Options / General: Added the option 'Automatically check for new beta versions once a day'.
• NEW: Options / General / Updates: Added the button 'Check now' to check for new updates any time.
• NEW: Stored search results / Context Menu: Added 'Open log file'.
• UPD: Stored search results: The column 'comparison criteria' was renamed to 'Comment' and now also can be edited.

Search Method

• NEW: Search method: The new comparison criteria 'Similar Music' enables you find the audio files that sound similar. Audio files with the following file extensions are supported: MP3, FLAC, WMA, WAV, OGG, APE, AAC, MKA, M4A, M4R and MP2.
• NEW: Search method / Comparison Criteria 'File name': The new option 'Ignore text patterns from the file name' enables you to ignore multiple text patterns from the file name.
• UPD: Search Method / Comparison Criteria 'File Content': Using the 'Ignore ID3 Tags of MP3 files' will ignore now ID3v2.x tags at the beginning of the file that exists twice and ID3v1 tags at the end of the file that exists twice.

Search Options

• NEW: Search options / Archive files: Now archives with the following extensions can also be scanned for duplicate files: ARJ, CB7, CBR, CBT, CBZ, EPUB, LZH, LHA and NRG.
• NEW: Search options / Archive Files: Now split archive files with the following extensions will be searched: '.zip', '.zip.001', '.rar', '.part1.rar', '.7z.001' und '.tar.001'.
• NEW: Search options / Archive Files: Added the option 'Scan the following archive types'.
• NEW: Search options / Archive Files: Added the option 'Delete temporary files after their checksum was created'.
• NEW: Search options / Archive files: Added the option 'Log password-protected files'.
• NEW: Search options / After the search: Added the option 'Play sound file'.
• UPD: The archive option 'Folder to extract temporary files from archives:' was renamed to 'Folder for store temporary files:' and moved to the general options.

Search Progress Window

• NEW: Search result / Progress window: The new button 'Options' enables you to perform the following actions after the search is done: 'Play sound', 'Save search result', 'Put PC into sleep mode' and 'Hibernate PC'.

Search Result

• NEW: Search result / Menu bar: The new menu 'File Protection' enables you to activate/deactivate the file protection for each source folder.
• NEW: Search result / Menu bar 'Search result': Added the menu item 'File preview'.
• NEW: Search result / Toolbars: The new toolbar 'File Preview' enables you to activate a single Plugin to display all files with this Plugin only.
• NEW: Search result / Toolbar 'Select': The new button 'Undo the last select or deselect action' enables you to reverse the last select or deselect file action.
• NEW: Search result / File context menu: Added the command 'Remove file extension from the Plugin lists'.
• NEW: Search result / File context menu: Added the menu item 'File actions'. Doing a right-click on a file while pressing the CTRL key will display the new file actions menu only.
• NEW: Search result / File context menu: Added the file actions 'Copy file' and 'Move file' to the new file actions menu.
• UPD: Search result / File context menu: Moved several file actions (e.g. 'Rename file', 'Delete file', ...) to the new file actions menu.

File Preview

• NEW: Search result / File preview: The new Plugin 'VLC Media Player' enables to play all common audio and video files at the file preview pane.
• NEW: Search result / File Preview: The new Plugin 'MediaInfo' enables you to view technical information about media files, as well as tag information for many audio and video files.
• NEW: Search result / File Preview: The new Plugin 'EXIF Data Viewer' enables you to view EXIF data from files with the extensions JPEG, JPG, TIF, TIFF, PNG, GIF and WAV at the file preview pane.
• UPD: Plugin 'Image Viewer': Now you can view image files with the following extensions: BMP, CUT, DIB, DNG, EMF, GIF, HDP, ICO, IFF, J2C, J2K, JP2, JPE, JPG, JPEG, JPX, JFIF, PBM, PCX, PGM, PNG, PPM, PSD, RAS, TGA, TIF, TIFF, RAS, RLE, WBMP and WMF.

File Manager

• NEW: File Manager / Delete: Now you can delete files from inside 7z-archive files.
• NEW: File Manager / Delete: Now archive files will be deleted if you want to delete a file from inside the archive and the archive contains only this file.

Command-Line

• NEW: Command-line: Added the option -sa to start a search with the comparison criteria 'Similar Music'.
• NEW: Command-line: Added the option -l to specify the scan length for the comparison criteria 'Similar Music'.
• NEW: Command-line: Added the option -a to specify the compare method for the comparison criteria 'Similar Music'.

AllDup Version 4.2

• NEW: Source folder / Compare method: Added 'Compare only files within the same source and sub folder'.
• NEW: Search option 'Scan Archive Files': The following additionally archive types can be scanned for duplicates files: 7Z, ISO, CAB, TAR and GZ.
• NEW: Search method 'Similar Pictures': The new option 'Detect picture modifications' enables you to detect rotated or flipped pictures.
• NEW: Search method 'Similar Pictures': Added the option 'Compare only pictures with the same file extension'.
• NEW: Search method 'Similar Pictures': Added the option 'Compare only pictures with the same width and height'.
• NEW: Search method 'Similar Pictures': Added the option 'Compare only pictures with the same orientation'.
• NEW: Search method 'Similar Pictures': Added the option 'Compare only pictures with the same aspect ratio'.
• NEW: Search method: Now you can ignore the seconds from the timestamp when using the comparison criteria 'Creation date' or 'Last modified date'.
• NEW: Options / Search result: Added the option 'External program to open files'.
• NEW: Search result: Now you can hide groups based on the file selection inside the group.
• NEW: Search result / Menu bar 'Filter': Added the menu item 'Show groups without selected files'.
• NEW: Search result / Menu bar 'Filter': Added the menu item 'Show groups with all files selected'.
• NEW: Search result / Menu bar 'Filter': Added the menu item 'Show groups with some files selected'.
• NEW: Search result / File Manager: Now you can choose which groups of the search result should be processed: 'All groups (ignore filter)' or 'Only groups displayed by filter'.
• NEW: Search result / File Manager: Added the option 'Don't process any groups with all files selected'.
• NEW: Search result / Menu bar 'Select': Added the menu item 'Select all files with a Percent Match greater or equal to a specific percent value'.
• NEW: Search result / Menu bar 'Select': Added the menu item 'Select all files with a Percent Match lower or equal to a specific percent value'.
• NEW: Search result / Menu bar 'Select': Added the menu item 'Select all files except the picture with the most megapixels'.
• NEW: Search result / File(s) & Groups context menu: Added then menu item 'Open file(s) with external program'.
• NEW: Search options / 'During the search process': Added the option 'Determine picture dimension (slower)'.
• NEW: Search result: Added the columns 'Width' and 'Height' to display the dimension of an image in pixel.
• NEW: Search result / Menu bar 'Search Result': Added the menu item 'Export search result'.
• NEW: Search result / Export: Now you can save the data to a Microsoft Excel document.
• NEW: Search result / Export: Now you can select to save all files, only selected files or non-selected files when exporting data from the search result.
• NEW: Search result / Export: Now you can specify any character string to use as a delimiter.
• NEW: Search result / Export 'TXT': The new option 'Create file list' enables you to create a simple list of all files (file path + name).
• UPD: Search result / Menu bar 'Select': All menu entries to deselect files were moved to the new Menu bar section 'Deselect'.
• UPD: Search result / Menu bar 'Select': The menu entry 'Select Mode' was moved to the new Menu bar section 'Mode'.
• UPD: Search result / file preview / Plugin 'Internet Explorer': Now the file size and the picture dimension are displayed below the file path of a picture.
• UPD: Options / Search result: Now you can deactivate the option 'Compare these file types using Microsoft Word'.
• UPD: Several language translations of the user interface have been updated
• (!!!): The language files have been moved to the new subfolder 'lang'.
• (!!!): The saved search results will be stored inside the new subfolder 'data'. Please move your existing search results to the new subfolder if needed (files: {search result name}.asr4a + {search result name}.ini4a + {search result name}.txt)
• (!!!): Now the saved profiles will be stored inside the new subfolder 'profile'. Please move your existing profiles ({profile name}.pro4) to the new subfolder if needed.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

AllDup Version 4.1.8

• NEW: Czech translation of the user interface. (Translator: Petr Vobo?il)
• NEW: Source folder list: The menu item 'Add missing drive letters' enables you to add all drives letters to the source folder list which are not already exist at the list.
• UPD: Filter Lists: Now you can sort the filter lists for files and folders via the column header.
• UPD: Added new symbols to several context menus.
• UPD: The Finnish translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

AllDup Version 4.1.5

• NEW: Greek translation of the user interface. (Translator: Pandelis Zeniodis)
• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: Now you can delete files from inside a zip file with the file manager.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

AllDup Version 4.1.2

• UPD: The Portuguese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The French translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

AllDup Version 4.1.0

• NEW: Comparison Criteria 'File Name' / Option 'Find similar file names': Now you can select the algorithms 'SmartMatch', 'FuzzyMatch', 'Levenshtein', 'Ratcliff', 'MatchDiff', 'WordMatch', 'FuzzyPercent' and 'Simil' to find similar file names. See examples at the help file.
• NEW: Search Options: Added the option 'Abort the search operation after a certain number of duplicates was found'.
• UPD: Comparison Criteria 'File Name': The option 'Partial name matching' was renamed to 'Find similar file names'.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

AllDup Version 4.0.47

• NEW: Finnish translation of the user interface. (Translator: VeikkoM)
• UPD: The traditional Chinese translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The Slovenian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• UPD: The French translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

AllDup Version 4.0.44

• NEW: Portuguese translation of the user interface. (Translator: Havokdan)
• NEW: Slovenian translation of the user interface. (Translator: Jadran Rudec)
• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

AllDup Version 4.0.42

• NEW: The location of the AllDup application data will be displayed at the options.
• UPD: The French translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

AllDup Version 4.0.40

• NEW: Comparison Criteria 'File Content': The compare method 'Byte by byte' has been extended by the option 'Percentage Match' to find files with a similar content.
• NEW: Arabic translation of the user interface. (Translator: Mfm Dawdeh)
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

AllDup Version 4.0.35

• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface has been updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

AllDup Version 4.0.32

• NEW: Swedish translation of the user interface. (Translator: Sopor)
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

AllDup Version 4.0.28

• NEW: Italian translation of the user interface and the help file. (Translator: Gennaro Esposito)
• NEW: Polish translation of the user interface. (Translator: Fresta)
• NEW: Search Method / Comparison Criteria 'File Name': Added the option 'Ignore characters at the end of a file name'.
• UPD: File Filter / Option "Exclude files by size": Added the size units GB and TB.
• UPD: File Filter / Option "Exclude files by size": Now you can specify a file size with a maximum of 6 digits for each size unit.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

AllDup Version 4.0.23

• NEW: Hungarian translation of the user interface. (Translator: Döbröntei Sándor)
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

AllDup Version 4.0.20

• NEW: Traditional Chinese translation of the user interface. (Translator: StarOS)
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

AllDup Version 4.0.18

• NEW: French translation of the user interface and the manual. (Translator: JP.Quélo)
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

AllDup Version 4.0.14

• NEW: Search Result / Menu bar / Options: Added the option 'Show prompt to save search result on exit'.
• UPD: Saving the search result was optimized and is now faster especially when saving a huge amount of data.
• UPD: File- and Folder filter list: Now you can edit a filter via the F2 key.
• UPD: The interaction with the user interface via the keyboard was optimized.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

AllDup Version 4.0.12

• NEW: General Options: Added the option 'Check for new update once a day'.
• NEW: Search Result / Toolbars: Now you can hide or show each button of a toolbar via the context menu.
• NEW: Search Result / Toolbar: Added the buttons "Show previous selected file" and "Show next selected file".
• NEW: Search Result / Menu bar / Remove: Added the command 'Remove all groups with all files selected'.
• NEW: Search Result / Menu bar / Select: Added the command 'Select files by path' and 'Deselect files by path'.
• NEW: The progress of the scan for duplicates will be shown at the windows task bar inside AllDup's task button as an animated progress bar. (Windows 7 or higher)
• NEW: The Internet-Update Wizard is now also available at the Portable Edition.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

AllDup Version 4.0.10

• NEW: Source Folder: Added the compare methods 'Compare files from all source folders' and 'Compare only files between different source folders'.
• UPD: The progress info during the scan for duplicates was revised.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

AllDup Version 4.0.8

• UPD: The estimated remaining time and the progress will be shown at the window title when load/save a search result or expand/collapse a large number of groups at the search result.
• UPD: Search Options: The option 'Determine the file attributes (slower)' was removed.
• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface was updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

AllDup Version 4.0.7

• NEW: Search Method / Option: The new option 'Don't compare hard linked files' prevents the content comparison and the checksum creation of files which are hard links of themselves.
• NEW: Search Options: Added the option 'Remove all groups where the files do not exist in all source folders'.
• NEW: Search Result / Menu Bar / Options: The new option 'Show file info icons' will show a special icon for hard linked files and files from inside an archive at the left edge of the search result.
• NEW: Search Result / Menu Bar / Options: Added the option 'Text color of reference files'.
• NEW: Search Result / Menu Bar / Options: Added the option 'Text color of compressed files'.
• NEW: Search Result / Menu Bar / Options: Added the option 'Text color of hard links'.
• NEW: Search Result / Menu Bar / Options: Added the option 'Background color of groups'.
• NEW: Search Result / Menu Bar / Options: Added the option 'Text color of groups'.
• UPD: The options to filter files by size has been moved to the file filter pane.
• UPD: Search Options: The layout of the options has been improved.
• UPD: Search Result: A mouse click with the right button on a column header sorts only the files inside a group.
• UPD: Search Result: Now you can use the hotkey F2 to rename files.
• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface was updated.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

AllDup Version 4.0.5

• NEW: Search Result / Context Menu 'File': Add the command 'Rename file'.
• UPD: Command-Line: Folder paths without space(s) don't have to be enclosed in double-quotes anymore.
• UPD: Now you can use the hotkey F4 to start the search for duplicates.
• UPD: Profile List, Source Folder List and Stored Search Result List: Now you can use the hotkey F2 to rename items.
• UPD: Search Result: The created picture preview of a group will be cached until a new group is selected.
• UPD: Stored Search Result List: Added the columns 'Duplicates' and 'Search Criteria'.
• (!!!): The stored search results of the previous version can't be loaded anymore.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

AllDup Version 4.0.3

• UPD: The Russian translation of the user interface was updated.
• UPD: Search Criteria 'Similar Pictures': At the file preview of a group the column 'Match' will be shown.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

AllDup Version 4.0.2

• NEW: Command-Line: The command -s9 starts a search with the search criteria 'Similar Pictures'.
• NEW: Command-Line: The command -h[0-2] enables you to specify the comparison method for the search criteria 'Similar Pictures'.
• NEW: Command-Line: The command -m[1-100] enables you to specify the percent match for the search criteria 'Similar Pictures'.
• NEW: Command-Line: The command -d[0-2] enables you to specify the compare size for the search criteria 'Similar Pictures'.
• NEW: Search Result / Menu Bar: Added the menu entry 'Columns' to hide/show the columns at the search table.
• UPD: Search Result / Menu Bar / Options: The option 'Display user selected files in bold' was replaced by the option 'Background color of files selected by user'.
• UPD: Search Result / Menu Bar / Options: Now you can specify an individual color for the background of selected files.
• UPD: Search Criteria 'Similar Pictures': Comparing the hash values was optimized and is now much faster than the previous version.
• UPD: Search Criteria 'Similar Pictures': Files with 0 bytes will be automatically excluded from the search.
• UPD: The number of all excluded files and folders from the search will be shown at the log.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

AllDup Version 4.0

• NEW: The user interface was revised and equipped with new icons, arranging the program in a clearer manner.
• NEW: The Unicode-Compatibility was overall improved. Text with Unicode characters from languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian will be displayed properly.
• NEW: According to our measurements, the search by file content is now up to 50% faster than the previous version.
• NEW: The new search criteria 'Similar Pictures' enables you to find similar or almost identical pictures between the image file formats BMP, JPG/JPEG, GIF, PNG and TIF.
• NEW: Search Method / File Content: The search by file content supports now the checksums MD5 (128-bit), SHA-1 (160-bit), SHA-2 (256-bit), SHA-2 (384-bit) and SHA-2 (512-bit).
• NEW: Search Method / File Content: Added the option 'Ignore metadata of FLAC files'.
• NEW: Search Method / File Content: The option 'Ignore ID3 Tags of MP3 files' ignores now the tags 'Lyrics3 v2' and 'APE v2'.
• NEW: Search Method / File Name: Added the option 'Partial name matching of not less than x percent'.
• NEW: Search Method / File Name: Added the option 'Compare only characters at the beginning of a file name'.
• NEW: Source Folder List / Options: Added the option 'Compare only files within the same source folder'.
• NEW: Search Options: Added the option 'Show only files without duplicates at the search result'.
• NEW: Search Options: Added the option 'Log every x minute the search statistic of the scan progress info'.
• NEW: Options / General: Added the option 'Unicode-Text Support'.
• NEW: Options / General: Now you can choose between 19 different color themes for the user interface.
• NEW: Options / Log: Added the option 'Log all non-duplicate files'.
• NEW: Options / Search Result: Added the option 'External program to open a folder'.
• NEW: File and Folder Filter: Now you can specify multiple filters using the special character '|' as a separator. Example: *.bmp|*.jpg|*.jpeg|*.png
• NEW: Search Result: The new option 'Select Mode' enables you to choose what groups will be affected from a select/unselect action.
• NEW: Search Result: Now you can re-arrange the column order via drag & drop.
• NEW: Search Result / Menu Bar / Select: Added the action 'Expand all groups contain files with different names'.
• NEW: Search Result / Menu Bar / Select: Now you can choose between the modified and creation date at the select action 'Select all files except the newest/oldest file'.
• NEW: Search Result / Menu Bar / Options: Added the option 'Resize column width of all rows'.
• NEW: Search Result / Menu Bar / Options: Added the option 'Hide all toolbars'.
• NEW: Search Result / Menu Bar / Remove: Added 'Remove all groups with x file(s)'.
• NEW: Search Result / Menu Bar / Remove: Added 'Remove all groups where the files not exist at all source folders'.
• NEW: Search Result / Toolbars: Now you can hide each toolbar via the context menu.
• NEW: Search Result / Toolbar: Added the buttons 'Show previous/next non-selected file'.
• NEW: Search Result / File Context Menu: The action 'Copy to the clipboard' enables you to copy the file name and/or file path to the clipboard.
• NEW: Search Result / Toolbar / Search: Added the button 'Search Options'.
• NEW: Search Result / Toolbar / Search: Added the option 'Case-sensitive search'.
• NEW: Search Result / Toolbar / Search: Added the option 'Use wildcards'.
• NEW: Search Result / Toolbar / Search: Added the option 'Search all visible columns'.
• NEW: Search Result / Toolbar / Search: Added the option 'Wrap the search after reaching the end or the beginning of the search result'.
• NEW: Search Result: Clicking on 'Search Result' will show up the search log at the file preview pane.
• NEW: A log window will be displayed at the search progress.
• NEW: File and Folder Filter / Context Menu: Added the actions "Escape wildcard's" and "Unescape wildcard's".
• NEW: Command-Line: The command -c enables you to specify the compare method for the search criteria 'file content'.
• NEW: Command-Line: The command -n prevent that the passed folders will not be added to the source folder list.
• UPD: Source Folder List: Now the user can add and remove drives.
• UPD: Source Folder List: Now all existing drives will be added to the list only at the first start of AllDup.
• UPD: Search Result / Toolbar: Now you can search forward and backward at the search result.
• (!!!): The stored search results, profiles and program settings of the previous version 3 will not takeover to the new version.
• (!!!): Windows 2000 is no longer supported.
• FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.