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 ...

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 ...

My cloud backup habit left me with 35,000 hidden duplicates, until I found this free app.

Dissy is a free disk space analyzer and visualizer tool for Windows PC that lets you find, remove duplicate files, and manage storage. It is an all-in-one application that helps you in different ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jeff Fehring wants a way to find and eliminate duplicate songs in his large music collection. There are plenty of good programs for finding duplicate files–based on file name, size, and checksums–but ...

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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 ...

These free and paid apps will help you get rid of duplicate files that take up useful space on your computer. There are many polished Mac apps for this — but they're mostly paid software. Those shiny ...