Are Duplicate Files Wasting Your Time?
Even Though the digital storage is cheap, we would never like duplicate files and folders to pile up. Or would you?
In this post we will let you how you can find and remove duplicate files from your computer. Here we go.
Working With Duplicate Files And Folders.
To work with such stuff, you can either prefer the traditional manual frisking, which undoubtedly is too inconvenient and time consuming, or you can simply use a program to do it for you.
SearchMyFiles utility
provide a special search mode that allows you to easily find duplicate files in
your system. When you switch to the 'Duplicates Search' mode, SearchMyFiles
scans the files according to your preferences, like it does in the regular
mode, but instead of displaying the list of all files, it only displays the
files with identical content (duplicate files).
In order to start using the duplicates search, simply set
the Search Mode combo-box in the search options window to 'Duplicates Search'.
It's also highly recommended to narrow the search by setting time, size or
subfolder depth restrictions, because if don't set additional restrictions, the
duplicate search might be very slow.
In the following example (in the screenshot), SearchMyFiles
was configured to search for duplicate files under c:\users but only for files
that their size is greater than 1000 bytes:
During the duplicate search, there are 2 stages. In the
first stage, SearchMyFiles scans all files and folders according to your
selection, but without adding any file to the main window. The scan in the
first stage is only made for collecting the files list, but without reading the
files. In the second stage, SearchMyFiles compare all files with equal size,
and when it find 2 or more files with identical content, they are added to the
duplicates list in the main window.
After the scan is finished, the duplicates list looks like
in the following screenshot:
Each chunk of duplicates files are painted with different
color (There are up to 64 different colors) and there is also a 'Duplicate
Number' column, which allows you to easily sort the list according to the
duplicates order.
SearchMyFiles is not just another duplicate files finder. It
allows you to search duplicate files only with specific criteria, instead of
scanning your entire hard-drive, so the duplicate files scan will be relatively
fast.
Here's some examples of duplicate search queries that you
can do with SearchMyFiles utility:
- Find all duplicate files with .avi extension that there size is larger than 5000 KB.
- Find all duplicate files under c:\my files folder that were created on years 2005 - 2007.
- Find only the duplicate files that there size is smaller than 1000 bytes.
- Find only the duplicate files with 'hidden' attribute.
- Find all duplicate files that were created in the last 30 days.
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