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Sound Notifications

DupScout provides the ability to play notification sounds when a duplicate files search operation is started, completed or failed. In addition, the user is provided with the ability to enable, disable or customize all types of sound notifications.

In order to open the 'Notification Sounds' dialog, select the 'Tools - Notification Sounds' menu item. The 'Notifications Sounds' dialog shows all the available sound notifications and allows one to enable or disable specific sound notifications.

In order to select a custom notification sound file, click on a notification sound item in the sounds list and select a custom WAV file. In order to play a notification sound, select the required notification sound in the sounds list and press the 'Play' button.

DupScout News

3-Jun-2026

DupScout v18.2 improves the performance and the fault tolerance of the duplicate files search operations and improves the duplicate files search progress dialog. In addition, the new product version improves support for Unicode characters in file search rules and regular expressions, improves the main DupScout GUI application and fixes a number of bugs.

12-May-2026

DupScout v18.1 adds a new, adaptive duplicate files search mode, adds support for new file types to the built-in file classification plug-ins allowing one to search specific types of duplicate files and improves the duplicate files search statistics pie charts. In addition, the new version improves the duplicate files search options dialog, improves the DupScout command line utility and fixes a number of bugs.

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