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Yes. Job Insights — Storage Studio's screen for everything it does in the background — has a Duplicates card. Each completed scan counts as one run with a summary such as how many duplicate sets were found and how much could be freed; a stopped scan shows as "Scan stopped".

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It records one entry per scan, never one per file, so it stays readable. The Duplicates window itself shows the time of the last scan for each source.

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Duplicate files · Scanning and Auto-scan

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Is the duplicate scan shown in Job Insights?

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Short answer: Yes. Job Insights has a Duplicates card that records each completed scan as one run, with how many sets were found and how much could be freed; a stopped scan shows as "Scan stopped". It never logs one entry per file.

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Yes. Job Insights — Storage Studio's screen for everything it does in the background — has a Duplicates card. Each completed scan counts as one run with a summary such as how many duplicate sets were found and how much could be freed; a stopped scan shows as "Scan stopped".

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It records one entry per scan, never one per file, so it stays readable. The Duplicates window itself shows the time of the last scan for each source.

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