Stevey asked the Answer Line forum for advise on finding and removing duplicate files. A hard drive is like a family garage–junk expands to fill available space. An SSD behaves very much the same way, ...

Windows 8's built-in search function is pretty good at finding individual files and all the other files that share the same name. However, it does not do a good job of clearly flagging identical files ...

One of the most frequent questions at Answer Line is how to easily remove duplicate images. The short answer is a utility. We’ve covered those in the past, and most of the best ones, such as Duplicate ...

There may come a time when your Windows computer system is filled with duplicate files. No one likes that at all because, depending on the number, it can be difficult to remove them all. But that’s ...

Windows only: A little sloppy file keeping can lead to a lot of duplicate and space-hogging files. Dig up all your dupes with the speedy Fast Duplicate File Finder ...

It occurs to me, after doing a file-type search on one of my hard drives, that after several years of upgrades, backs-ups, re-installs, new hard drives, etc., I have collected multiple copies of many ...

So, it recently came to my attention that Dropbox for Android, when syncing files, automatically renames all photos and videos to a datetime stamp, not preserving the original filenames as they exist ...

A recent request on the Boston Mac User Group mail list sent me looking for an app that compares folders and seeks duplicate files across drives. Singlemizer: The Duplicate Finder by Konstantin ...

Auslogics' Duplicate File Finder is easier to use than Digital Volcano's Duplicate Cleaner, but Duplicate Cleaner identifies more types of redundant files. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about ...

As computer users, sometimes we tend to create duplicate files, and sometimes, we have no idea. For many of us, our Windows 11/10 system has many duplicate files, so the question is how to get rid of ...