What's the best way to find and delete duplicate files and folders from my computer? After so many backups and file-saves, my computer has thousands of duplicate files and folders. How can I identify and delete them?
Does the app tell you how it decides what is a duplicate? Besides being the same size and name, does it also compare the datetime stamp?Thanks, Mike.
Mainly, I want to clean out the duplicate backups in one of my 8 TB external hard drives. On the Microsoft website this morning I found a free app called "Duplicate Cleaner Free 4.1.2". I tried it i just a portion of the drive and it seems to be working well, so I'll probably use it to go further.
UPDATE:
This app has found 50,933 duplicate files in my external hard drive. It's working to delete them now, which probably will take another half an hour or so.
Don't think I can do that, because these backups have come from a dozen or so different drives over a period of years. However, I backup the currently-used drives as you suggest.... or create a fresh full backup that has it all, and zap everything else.
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