As our database of files grows in our hard drive, we begin to see duplicate files; this for the most part occurs in our music folders. Maybe a friend gave us a USB stick with music, only to find out you already have most of these songs. Maybe you have downloaded the same pictures from facebook a few times.
In fact, there are many things that can cause us to have duplicate files, pdf downloads, e-mail attachments or other stuff you found lying around the internet. As a result it becomes increasingly more difficult to find the files we need on our computer, and we are losing HD space in the process. And when we finally realize it’s time to clean up this mess we found it is nearly impossible to find and remove the duplicate files manually.
How to Get Rid of Duplicate Files
Fortunately for us, there is computer software that can deal with these problems for us; I mainly use Duplicate File Cleaner. I have found this software to be very reliable, easy to use and perform better than other software available.
This piece of software will scan your computer and clean up duplicate documents, songs, photos, outlook emails and more.
Duplicate File Cleaner Features and Benefits
- Quickly scan and locate duplicate files by comparing file size, file type, file content and other criterias
- Works on any mobile device, finally you can clean up all that junk and duplicate songs in your portable music device
- It runs in the background and requires very little processing power, so it will not disturb your other tasks
Does it Work?
To test this program I decided to download two huge music torrents with much of the same music, I also copied some photo folders and placed them in various parts around the hard drive.
The hard drive was filled with roughly 34 GB of duplicates, and after a quick scan it revealed some 42 GB worth of duplicates, as suspected most of them where music files, but it had also located most of the pictures as well along with other files I was unaware of myself, mostly documents, files downloaded from the internet and other stuff I had moved around using copy/paste (the right way is cut/paste by the way).
I went through the list it returned with duplicate files to confirm I was not deleting something I might need and proceeded to delete the duplicates.
- GB’s of space cleared – 39
Another feature that is very useful, is that it can also clean up and remove all of your temporary files and other junk files that clutter up the hard drive to free up additional HDD space.
Click here to see how Duplicate File Cleaner can free up your Hard Drive
The main reason you should invest in a Duplicate File Cleaner is because these files are wasting hard drive space, and before you know it your HDD has reached full capacity, additionally, having a cluttered hard drive can have a negative on your computers performance. There are clean up tools in windows, but they only remove temporary files stored by browsers and applications, and empties your recycle bin, at most this will clear a GB or two if you have a very large hard drive.
And having many duplicate files means your backup, which your computer will do regularly, needs more space, and also takes a longer time to complete, resulting in slower performance.
The Duplicate File Cleaner software identifies and deletes duplicate files, increasing performance and clearing out GB’s of free space on your computer.
Click here to read about all the features of Duplicate File Cleaner
Or get your free scan and see if your hard drive is cluttered with duplicate files.
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