Tools
The Tools page holds two utilities: the Duplicate Finder and Drive Info (Pro).
Duplicate Finder
Finds files with identical content across your vaults.
- How matches are found: files are grouped by their full-file hash —
not the fast “head hash” used for quick scan checks, but the complete
hash computed and verified during the hashing phase (see
Scanning & Detection). Only files currently
in
OKstatus are eligible, so a file that hasn’t been fully hashed yet, or is flaggedCORRUPT/MISSING, won’t show up as a duplicate. - Scope: duplicates are matched across all your vaults by default. Use the vault dropdown to narrow the list to one vault at a time.
- Protected vs Raw hash mode: a Protected (HMAC-keyed) vault’s files and a Raw vault’s files are never matched against each other for duplicates, since their hashes aren’t in a comparable format — see Security & Encryption.
- Groups: matching files are shown grouped together, one group per distinct piece of content.
Hiding a file
Each file in a duplicate group has a Hide button. Hiding a file:
- Removes it from the Duplicate Finder list only.
- Does not change anything about how it’s monitored — it’s still scanned, verified, and parity-protected exactly as before, and it isn’t touched on disk.
Use this to declutter the list once you’ve decided a duplicate is intentional (e.g. a deliberate backup copy inside the same vault) without losing track of it here again.
Show in folder
Each file also has a Show in folder button, which opens the folder containing it in your file manager with the file selected — Explorer on Windows, whatever your desktop uses on Linux. It’s a navigation shortcut only — nothing is moved, renamed, or deleted. If the file is no longer at that path, a short error is shown instead.
Hidden files move to a separate “Hidden from this list” section, shown when you toggle Show hidden files. Each row there has an Unhide button to bring it back into the normal duplicate view.
Paging
Results page through 25 files at a time with Previous/Next controls (no jump-to-page).
Drive Info (Pro)
Shows the raw S.M.A.R.T. health data reported by a physical drive — the detail behind the at-a-glance drive health indicator in the nav bar.
- Requires Pro. On Free, the panel shows an upgrade prompt instead of data.
- Requires SMART monitoring to be on. Set Drive Health to Advanced in Settings → General; that’s the mode that reads real SMART data through the helper service. If it’s Off or Basic, Drive Info can’t read anything and says so.
- Pick a physical drive, not a vault. The drive picker lists physical disks, which is deliberately not the same list as your vaults: one physical disk can hold several vaults, and one vault can’t span disks. Choose All drives to see every disk at once.
What it reports
Where the drive provides them:
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Capacity | Total size of the physical drive |
| Device | The drive’s model/device identifier |
| Temperature | Current reported temperature |
| Power-on hours | Cumulative hours the drive has been running |
| Power cycles | How many times the drive has been powered up |
| Wear level | SSD write-endurance consumed so far |
| Spare available | Remaining reserve blocks the drive can swap in for failing ones |
Not every drive reports every field — the list is what your drive actually exposes, not a fixed set. Some drives (particularly external USB enclosures) report nothing useful at all, in which case Drive Info says no attributes were reported.
Below the summary, the full table of SMART attributes the drive reports is shown as-is. FileGriffon does not interpret or grade these beyond the health indicator in the nav bar — they’re there for when you want to read the underlying numbers yourself.