Task Scheduler

Duplicate File Detective offers a built-in task scheduler that allows you to produce duplicate file reports on a deferred or recurring basis.

The Task Scheduler window offers a range of task management functions:

• New Task - Creates a new scheduled task

• Edit - Edits the currently selected task
• Run - Runs the currently selected task
• Delete - Removes the currently scheduled task
• Refresh - Updates the scheduled task listing

Task Editor

Creating a new task or editing an existing one will provide you access to the task editor, which has the following inputs:

• Project file path - Enter the fully qualified path to an existing Duplicate File Detective project file (.dfd file).
• Export path - Enter a fully qualified file export path. The file extension will determine the file type (.html, .csv, .xml, .pdf, and .xlsx are supported).
• Save logged events to - Enter a fully qualified log file path with a .txt file extension (e.g. "c:\projects\events.txt").
• Load program settings - Enter the fully qualified path to a program options file that was previously saved from within Duplicate File Detective (e.g. "c:\projects\my_options.dat"). See About Settings for details on saving program options.
• Email export file to recipients - Enter one or more recipient email addresses (separated by commas). Requires valid email configuration.

More Options:

• Append date/time to export file name - Useful for keeping export file names unique.

Task Schedule

The Schedule page of the task editor determines when (and how often) the task runs:

• One time - Runs once at the specified start date and time.
• Daily - Recurs every N day(s).
• Weekly - Recurs every N week(s), on the day(s) of the week you select.
• Monthly - Runs either on a specific day of the month (e.g. the 15th), or on a relative weekday (e.g. the second Tuesday), within the month(s) you select.

All schedule types share a start date and time; the Set to Present button resets it to the current moment.

Task Credentials

Scheduled tasks run under a Windows account, for which you supply a username and password (with confirmation) when saving the task.

Important: Make sure the Windows user account associated with these credentials has appropriate access to the file system paths being searched (and written to during report export operations) by the scheduled task.