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Duplicate file detection and deletion

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  • 01-04-2014 7:04pm
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    wobbles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,090 ✭✭✭


    Hoping someone can help me out. Ive got hundreds, maybe thousands of files, mainly images that ive built up over the years that I had backed up. Being a bit lazy, I never really stuck to one regime of creating back ups so now i have many back ups with different files in each in a couple of locations. The sheer number of files now makes it difficult to manually sort it so im looking for a program to do the following.

    Look in folders I specify and any files names with the same name are presented to me. If they are the same file (its mainly images that I have) i can delete one and carry on, it they are different then allow me to rename it.

    I know windows has something like this but I want it to search within folders and sub folders

    Anyone know a program that can do some or all of that?


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    BionicRasher
    Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭BionicRasher


    wobbles wrote: »
    Hoping someone can help me out. Ive got hundreds, maybe thousands of files, mainly images that ive built up over the years that I had backed up. Being a bit lazy, I never really stuck to one regime of creating back ups so now i have many back ups with different files in each in a couple of locations. The sheer number of files now makes it difficult to manually sort it so im looking for a program to do the following.

    Look in folders I specify and any files names with the same name are presented to me. If they are the same file (its mainly images that I have) i can delete one and carry on, it they are different then allow me to rename it.

    I know windows has something like this but I want it to search within folders and sub folders

    Anyone know a program that can do some or all of that?

    I have used Auslogics Duplicate File Finder and it's pretty good. There's a specific photo duplicate finder called Duplicate Photo Cleaner which does a better scan of photos. CCleaner has a built in duplicate finder too.
    Be aware that some of the tools won't scan cloud storage locations for duplicate files.


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