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You may not notice it at first sight, but a deeper look will surely reveal a few dozen duplicate files on your hard drive, eating up precious disk space. Are you going to stay there, without lifting a finger? Of course not. Plus, you can count on several software apps which will lend you hand in the tedious yet rewarding task of removing duplicate files from your computer.
There are different kinds of duplicate removers, depending on the type of file you want to delete. You can find general purpose tools, and also other tools that have been specifically designed to find duplicate MP3 files or duplicate images. Whatever your personal situation is, take a look at the following list and you'll find the right app for you.
1. Remove duplicate files This is where you'll find the largest number of available apps. They all serve the same purpose: find and remove duplicate files, no matter what type or extension they are. Most of them support the usage of filters to refine search, and use different methods to find duplicates: size, name, byte-by-byte comparisons and CRC checksums are some of them. The only problem is that they usually have very similar names, so if you find one you really like, be sure to learn its name! Here are some of the tools you can use, all of them for free:
- Duplicate Files Finder - Open source tool that stands out for its speed at searching
- Duplicate File Finder - Features multi-thread scans and can also delete empty files
- Fast Duplicate File Finder - With built-in preview for images and multimedia files
- Easy Duplicate File Finder - Flexible scanning options and support for multiple drives
2. Remove duplicate MP3 MP3s are the kind of file you're most likely to have scattered across different platforms, devices or folders, which usually means you have a dozen copies of the same song. In order to avoid this mess, the best you can do is make use of a duplicate remover that's been specially developed to locate and delete duplicate MP3 files. Here's a couple of them, both for free:
- Duplicate Music Files Finder - Finds duplicate MP3 and also corrects misspelt tags
- Music Content Inspector - Slow yet very efficient MP3 duplicates finder
3. Remove duplicate photos Photos are not as common as MP3 duplicates, but if you have a digital camera and transfer pics to many other locations you can also end up with a few copies of the same picture. Again, there are specialized duplicate detectors for photos, which scan your photo library and can detect similarities not only between their names and sizes, but also their actual content. Here are two of them, both for free:
- Duplicate Images Finder - Analyzes the content of the image to find duplicates
- SimilarImages - Uses a fast method to scan your system and detect duplicate photos
On Mac, Hazel can detect duplicate files in directories as you go along — it also does a lot of other "housekeeping" tasks based on rules. An awesome utility!
Thanks for the Mac tip, Torley! :)
Easy duplicate finder is very good tool for free but i need more options to find duplicate files and then i found duplicate finder by Ashisoft. Its not free but have many options to search duplicate files.
its good
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Fast Duplicate File Finder is great! I love the built-in preview feature.
Try this freeware Folder Size it is really good and contains no adware or spam! It is very handy in freeing up disk space too!
Easy Duplicate File Finder is NOT FREE! Costs $30 to buy...you can drop it from this list as it is also worse than the free ones.
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There are so many duplicate finders.. Here is one I've made, to meet my demands :)
the REAL freeware AllDup is a very good choice for finding duplicate files on your pc. it also can find duplicate mp3s and ignores the id3 tags of them. also it find duplicates photos/images and ignore the exif data of them.
What about finding duplicated files on CDs? I have several duplicated ones in 15 or 16 CDs. Is there any program for this?
Hi guys, this is a shameless plug for MusicWrench. I created it as answer to a lot of a the smaller programs out there. MusicWrench will find (MP3) duplicates even if the title spelling is incorrect. It also finds duplicate artists for cases where your artists are misspelled. Check it out a http://www.musicwrench.com. It is not free, but a demo is. The demo will show you the duplicates, it just won't remove them for you. So, if you don't have a large set of duplicates, it's basically freeware.
There is a one More useful utility Stellar Speedup mac (http://www.stellarspeedupmac.com/) it optimizes and enhance the performance of Mac hard drive by removing redundant and duplicate files.
I like Exact Duplicate Finder :))