DupScout Ultimate provides the ability to analyze duplicate files owned by multiple users and detected on one or more servers or desktop computers and display charts showing the amount of wasted disk space and the number of duplicate files per user.

Important: By default, processing and display of user names is disabled. In order to enable this capability, open the options dialog, select the 'General' tab and enable this option.

In order to analyze duplicate files per user, connect DupScout Ultimate to an SQL Database and submit reports containing duplicates owned by multiple users to the SQL database using the DupScout GUI application or the DupScout command line utility. Once reports are in the database, open the 'Database' dialog and press the 'Users' button to open the 'Users Statistics' dialog.

dupscout -analyze -dir \\server\share -host <Host Name> -save_to_database

The simplest way to submit reports from multiple servers or desktop computers is to use the DupScout command line utility to detect duplicate files on all required hosts through the network. In order to simplify submission of reports to the SQL database, the command line utility may be executed on the same host where the SQL database is installed on. In this case, the user needs to specify one or more network shares to be processed and the host name to be set for each report.

dupscout -analyze -dir <Local Directory> -save_report <File Name>

Another option is to execute the command line utility on each specific host, save duplicate files reports and later submit report files from all hosts to the SQL database using the DupScout GUI application. In this case, there is no need to set the host name, which will be set automatically to the name of the host the command line utility is executed on.