Reader Pam is looking for a way to “clean out duplicate files, documents, pictures, etc.,” but doesn’t want to spend money on the project. In other words, she wants a freeware solution. I’ve got just ...

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 ...

Easy Duplicate Finder is a feature-rich duplicate file detector that can keep your chaos of files under control. Though powerful, it’s expensive and sometimes buggy. No matter how big hard drives get, ...

If your Mac is running low on storage, chances are that duplicate files and photos occupy a significant part of it. If the number is low, you can get away by performing a manual search, a terminal ...

It struck me how much space duplicates occupy only after I stumbled upon a full 256GB SSD drive that seemed mostly empty. It had files from old backups, cloud sync folders, and nested project ...

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 ...

Google Drive irrefutably is one of the most widely known cloud storage services. It allows users to conveniently upload and store their documents, images, videos, archives, and other files directly on ...

As much as we love feature-packed applications that perform countless tasks, there’s nothing wrong with an inexpensive utility that does the one thing we need without much fuss and bother. Such is ...

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For a project, I have a set of "fork" directories which are duplicates of a "baseline" directory, but with some modified and some additional files. A large number of these files in these "fork" ...