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    <revision pkgversion="3.4" date="2012-02-20" status="review"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.10" date="2012-07-24" status="review"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">
      <name>Julita Inca</name>
      <email its:translate="no">yrazes@gmail.com</email>
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    <credit type="author copyright editor">
      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
      <email its:translate="no">kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
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    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Michael Hill</name>
      <email its:translate="no">mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
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    <desc><app>Disk Usage Analyzer</app> is an application which shows you your use of storage space using graphs.</desc>

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  <title>Introduction</title>

  <p><app>Disk Usage Analyzer</app> is a graphical application for analysing
  storage device usage. It can be used to scan multiple local or remote storage
  devices, including hard disks, SSDs, USB sticks, digital cameras and memory
  cards. <app>Disk Usage Analyzer</app> can scan either the
  <link xref="scan-file-system">whole file system</link>,
  <link xref="scan-home">your <file>Home</file> directory</link>,
  <link xref="scan-folder">a specified folder</link> or
  <link xref="scan-remote">a remote directory</link>.</p>

  <p>The results may be useful in deciding which folders can be
  <link href="help:file-roller">archived</link>,
  <link href="help:gnome-help/files-delete">deleted</link> or
  <link href="help:gnome-help/files-copy">moved</link> to free up space. You
  can also use the results to estimate how much space would be needed for a
  <link href="help:gnome-help/backup-how">backup</link> of specific
  folders.</p>

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