Looking for a Software Program to Scan and Remove Duplicate Files

Birddude007

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Hey folks, I am one of those unorganized people who ends up having multiple copies of files on my HD, is there a software program out there (preferably free) that I can use to scan the drive and remove sch duplicates?
 

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Here's a place to start.
https://www.google.com/search?sourc...8j3.11.0...0.0...1ac.1.12.igoogle.YouvOfsUmQc

I use Glary utilities which is free and does a variety of things
THW

Thank you for the link THW :)

Hi there are many programs which are capable of achieving this .... Everyone has their own personal preference .... The link below contains a wide selection

http://www.freewarefiles.com/search.php?boolean=all&categoryid=1&query=duplicate+file+&boolean=exact&type=all&B1.x=17&B1.y=10

Thanks for the link maxie :)
 

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You're welcome Steph :)
 

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Update- I managed to use easy duplicate finder and it worked fine but since my duplicates had different names presumably when I moved them around and duplicated them in the same folders it never got me to where I needed.

After I recovered all my lost files on a disk I accidently reformatted, i wound up with around 750 GB of files, most of them were copies and duplicates, some of them even had up to ten duplicates of the same file!
I just created a new folder and started to go through all the folders and subfolders in the "lost files" folder that my recover program created and basically selected all the individual files in each folder and cut&pasted them in the one I created, every time windows noticed I was trying to put similar files into that folder the warning window popped up and I just clicked "skip for all files that are identical" button, once I managed to do all that I was down to 550 GBs, I then told the "view" mode to group all files by type, I went and put all they files of the types that I wanted to keep into their own perspective files (mainly image files-Jpegs,DNGs, etc...)
I then went into those individual folders and totally deleted all know copies and duplicates, if I was unsure, I would then check the file out in Adobe Bridge where I can actually see the image.
Going through all these files and organizing these files took me four days, boring? yes but it had to be done, I finally ended up with only 110GBs of image files and it was a complete collection of ALL my files I took over the last ten years. All I had to do next was fire up Lightroom and put it to the task of organizing them by date, that only took 4 hours, I am now organized and I stick to it.
 

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Windows 7 64 bit
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2 x 250 GB
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wall outlet
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cat got it
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Symantec(SEP)
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Windows 7 64 bit
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AMD Dual Core 2,2 GHZ
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dunno...its a laptop
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4GB, upgrading to 8GB
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integrated
Sound Card
does it need one?
Monitor(s) Displays
built in
Screen Resolution
lots
Hard Drives
2 x 250 GB
PSU
wall outlet
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plastic
Cooling
swamp cooler
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finger operated
Mouse
cat got it
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1 meg
Birddude007 did you ever get your restore point problem taken care of?
Yes Ccleaner does a fine job for me with finding duplicate files.
 

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Icy Dock ssd Hot Swap bays.
Birddude007 did you ever get your restore point problem taken care of?
Yes Ccleaner does a fine job for me with finding duplicate files.

I ran it and it found a lot of dup's, some were three and four of the same. I gave up after a while trying to figure out which ones to keep and which ones would kill the OS if I removed them.
 

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Intel® HD Graphics 4600
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1TB 5400 RPM;(OS,programs)



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The way it works for me is you can't delete all of them.
If you have lets say 4 of the same thing. Same date,size ect; Ccleaner will only let you remove 3 of them.
If you don't feel comfortable removing them don't do it. All they really do is take up a little space.
 

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Intel i7-6800K @ 4.3
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ASUS X-99 Deluxe II
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Corsair Platinum 16 gig @2400
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EVGA GTX 1070 OC
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Asus 27" LED LCD/VE278Q
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1920-1080 or 1280-720 HDMI
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INTEL SSD 730-240 Gb Sata 3.0/
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EVGA Platium 1200W
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Phanteks Luxe Tempered Glass 8 fans/ one radiator
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XSPC/ Water Cooled CPU
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Das 4 Professional
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Logitech M705/MX Anywhere 2-S
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100 mbits
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Microsoft Security Essentials/ Malwarebytes Premium 3.0/ SAS
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LG BluRay Burner/
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Icy Dock ssd Hot Swap bays.

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INTEL Core i5-750 Quad-Core 3.37GHz
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ANTEC Three Hundred Illusion
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