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July 23, 2008 at 1:30 am

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2old4this

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I know i have zillions of duplicate files on my computer (vista home premium).

Been looking around at free softwares to find duplicates and then remove whichever ones you want.

But there are so many, and then i get suspicious of them all, just takes one bad user review and im outa there! paranoia corner lol – and now my brain really hurts! :hopeless:

As this is one of the few sites i trust – :love: i thought i’d ask here before doing anything!
Any suggestions anyone?
July 23, 2008 at 6:37 pm

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DaftFader

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i still use xp sry lol 😥
July 23, 2008 at 6:58 pm

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General Lighting

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what sort of duplicate files? data files? (sounds, pics, vids, documents?)

have you ended up with same/similar versions of files in directories with slightly different names?

TBH if you need the hard drive space I’d just transfer them to some other volume first (like a CD-rom/external hard drive), storage is cheap as chips (well silicon ones) these days compared to the risk of accidentally deleting something like treasured pics of your kids or a tune your mate made…

you should be backing up all that stuff anyway…
July 23, 2008 at 9:57 pm

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2old4this

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[HTML]what sort of duplicate files? data files? (sounds, pics, vids, documents?)[/HTML]

Ahem – All of the above, u have no idea lol

[HTML]TBH if you need the hard drive space I’d just transfer them to some other volume first (like a CD-rom/external hard drive), storage is cheap as chips (well silicon ones) these days compared to the risk of accidentally deleting something like treasured pics of your kids or a tune your mate made…

you should be backing up all that stuff anyway… [/HTML]

Yeah i got a 40GB external hard drive, and it’s filling up fast! This is the drive i need to sort out (soz, i said ‘computer’ before)

Trouble is – it’s a mess of a filing system, had it going for a while now, then changed computers, so there are loads of, different folders now, all created for valid reasons, i’m sure (at the time anyway!) – but now i really need to trim it down – dunno if i will actually live long enough to get thru it all! And i just know there must be oodles of duplicates by now, specially the music files. I’ve probly, over time, filed the same tune in half a dozen different folders, each for a perfectly good reason. . . . honest guv 😉
Maybe i should just do away with all the folders, just have one for music, one for pics, etc etc?

The popular duplicate detector software on download.com seems to be NoClone – thinking i might give it a go – maybe at the weekend. Computer ‘housework’ can be very time consuming, especially in the week :yawn:

Thanks for the advice (so far, lol)
July 24, 2008 at 8:58 am

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General Lighting

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Maybe i should just do away with all the folders, just have one for music, one for pics, etc etc?

yep what I tend to do is have one folder for each data type (music, pics, documents)

then subfolders often prefixed by a date in international/computer format

i.e

yyyy-mm-(dd) (name)

so you’d have directories like

My Pictures2008-05-01 Wildlife pics

Music2007-06 Downloads from partyvibe

My DocumentsFinance2007-04 Accounts spreadsheets

My DocumentsMisc2007-03 Backup of files from Linux server

The reason for the dates is the computer will then automatically sort all your content into date order if you use “sort by name” when displaying directories..

That said you may prefer to subdivide music into genre, but I’ve found dates are handy for photos and videos you have made…
July 24, 2008 at 9:01 am

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pixiegirl

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General Lighting;228590 wrote:

yep what I tend to do is have one folder for each data type (music, pics, documents)

then subfolders often prefixed by a date in international/computer format

i.e

yyyy-mm-(dd) (name)

so you’d have directories like

My Pictures2008-05-01 Wildlife pics

Music2007-06 Downloads from partyvibe

My DocumentsFinance2007-04 Accounts spreadsheets

My DocumentsMisc2007-03 Backup of files from Linux server

The reason for the dates is the computer will then automatically sort all your content into date order if you use “sort by name” when displaying directories..

That said you may prefer to subdivide music into genre, but I’ve found dates are handy for photos and videos you have made…

Very organised. I like. <3
July 24, 2008 at 9:28 am

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General Lighting

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TBH I still end up with duplicate files, but these have actually saved me in some cases when stuff has got accidentally deleted

Also as there is no restriction on me using work computers for personal stuff provided it doesn’t affect the company (being IT manager has its advantages :wink:) I often keep a copy of important files at home and work as well as on removable media

This may seem like belt, braces, and kevlar underpants, but when you’ve had a office PC blown up by a power surge a day before the final accounts are supposed to be sent off to audit (this happened to me last year) then you’re glad for having good backups!
July 24, 2008 at 9:35 am

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pixiegirl

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I’m a bit OCD about filing, it all seems very proper and correct to me. 😉
July 2, 2010 at 9:37 am

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vampi

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[FONT=&quot] [/FONT]From my own experience I recommend Clone Remover. It is useful utility for searching duplicate files and folders. Searching for duplicate files belonging to a certain group: archives, office documents, images, video and music, Internet. It is ideal for Windows and Vista and has open source. You can test it and make decision about future use.
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July 2, 2010 at 11:44 am

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DaftFader

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Put it all on the desk top!

(Don’t – I just went through a phaze of that till i ran out of space on my rather large monitor)

when you are backing up .. then backing up again …. if you do it over the same files .. if there are any duplicatesit will ask you “do you want to copy and replace – if you do this it will overide the old files and replace them with the new ones therefor eliminating dupliactes

also if you got a nice filing system then this helps too
November 29, 2010 at 5:54 pm

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I had the same issue,and for me deleting duplicate files is very important to optimize pc, i used a small utility available at duplicatefilesdeleter…
November 29, 2010 at 7:41 pm

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I use a free program From Auslogics rahter predicatably called Duplicate File Finder…
November 30, 2010 at 9:03 am

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2old4this

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@Dr Bunsen 408526 wrote:

I use a free program From Auslogics rahter predicatably called Duplicate File Finder…

Thanks – think i have used that before – was a long time ago though, so might give that another go 🙂
December 10, 2010 at 3:55 pm

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dubstep_joe

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Uh theres nothing like sorting out a bunch of files on a pc…

Just spend some time organizing it… Sort it out…

Had to do it hundreds of times.. As for saving to desktop, I use to do that all the time 😉 it would ‘overflow’ eventually I would format my pc, and save everything on the desktop to a folder… After a while I had like 3 ‘desktop’ folders full of junk =/…

Just learn to save things in the right places once and for all 🙂
October 27, 2011 at 8:23 am

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Duplicate Finder is the best solution in this case. It will help you to search and delete duplicate images, photo and mp3 files. The file names can also be different. And I’m telling you this because I’m a lovely sweet person not someone I’m trying to take advantage, honest…
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