Delete Duplicate files

Is there a simple way to find & delete duplicate files on my MacBook?

try this:
Twins - Duplicate Finder

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    I have nearly two terabytes of images stored in my image archives and I'm sure that there are many duplicates.  Is there an easy way to compare and delete duplicate files to save space on my drives?
    Thanks,
    Tom

    Hi Tom,
    The's no "easy" way, even if they're the same size, name, etc., they can be different qualities or even contents, so they really have to be compaed byte by byte, but...
    https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photosweeper-lite-get-rid/id506150103?mt=12

  • Find and delete duplicate files on my macbook pro?

    How can I find and delete duplicate files on my macbook pro. Just that i have so many and i think it is wasting a lot of memory etc on my mac! is there a simple and easy way to do so. Like i know in itunes you can just go to one of the opitions and show duplicates, is there anything like that with finder for my whole macbook?
    Thanks in advance!:)

    Decloner will compare the files themselves, not just by name or size.
    For the latest version and faster updates, also to give the developer a extra 30%, choose the developers site version, simply hold control or option key to temporarily turn off Mountain Lion's annoying Gatekeeper to run the app.
    http://www.pixelespressoapps.com/decloner/

  • Finding and deleting duplicate files

    I apologize in advance if I didn't search effectively enough, but having found no discussion of my problem, here it is:
    Is there a way to find, select and delete duplicate files on my hard drive? I know they exist, and would like to see them listed so I can delete This would be text, photo and movie files. Thanks in advance.
    Peace,
    SredniVashtar
    P.S. I'm using ilife 08 which has produced a lot of occult duplicate clip files. If anyone knows why mac eliminated the "create a still frame" option, I'd love to hear it...

    Go to http://macupdate.com/ and search "duplicates". There are some different utilities for photos, movies and tunes. Although Spring Cleaning will do all, I would stay away from that one or be VERY careful what you delete. Make sure they are only user files in your Home, not system files or Library files.
    -mj
    [email protected]

  • Help: there is a way to delete duplicate files in itune?

    every time when im importing music on my itunes is storing the files in the itunes music folder. now i have to backup this folder and the size is more than 80GB. i found that there are many duplications of songs. is there any easy way to delete duplicate files and songs that are unchecked from itunes playlist?
    thank you

    Robert Jacobson has written a duplicate removal script which you can download here:
    http://mysite.verizon.net/teridon/itunesscripts/
    You imply that your duplicates are unchecked. You can create a playlist containing unchecked tracks. This would allow easy manual deletion.
    You need two playlists.
    First create a smart playlist called "checked" containing checked items:
    Uncheck "Match the following rule"
    Check "Match only checked items"
    Live updating checked
    Next create a playlist with the following rule:
    Playlist is not checked.
    Match only checked items not checked.
    Live updating checked
    This second playlist should have all your unchecked tracks in it.
    Then you can use shift del to delete the tracks from you library.

  • I deleted duplicate files with MacKeeper and now my firefox only shows text. I have reinstalled firefox, java, and checked all of my settings. Any ideas? Safari works fine.

    I deleted duplicate files with MacKeeper and now my firefox only shows text. I have reinstalled firefox, java, and checked all of my settings. Any ideas? Safari works fine.

    I opened iCal back up, all the dates were blank, so i started to type events into a date.
    As soon as I started to double click a date to type an event, magically all the events in all the months reappeared.
    I'm still puzzled why it acted this way and if I did delete something that caused it to act this way.

  • Deleting duplicate files in the I tunes folder

    How do you remove duplicate file from the itunes folder if you need to restore itunes library?

    There are some programmes for XP to find duplicate files. I wanted to delete music duplicate file  I used the programme delete duplicate files for such aim. It helped me. This program is not only for the music, but for all files. And now it is more free place on my PC

  • How can I easily delete duplicate files in old Time Machine archives?

    I have multiple older Time Machine archives from different Macs that I have been going through manually and picking files out and copying them to another drive file by file. I'm running into massive quantities of duplicate files and the biggest problem is muliple iphoto pictures including the same picture in different sizes.
    I wanted to give up and just throw the whole Time Machine archive onto another disk so I could format the one it was on and use it for something else. But I got a message reading, "The backup can’t be copied because the backup volume doesn’t have ownership enabled." So I went to manually copy each "Macintosh HD" folder for each date into it's their own respective folders. It worked but required my password for each folder and each of the 19 folders were all ~75GB. Which is impossible because all of that data was on a 500GB drive.
    What should I do? This has become a two month long nightmare.

    I really don't know exactly, but since no one else has a answer I'll give it a shot.
    I don't know much about TimeMachine at all, however I did assist someone that their TM was corrupted and they needed to salvage what they could off the drive, so I'll start with that.
    There is software called Data Rescue and it's designed to read the 1's and 0's of any data on the drive, deleted or not, regardless of the file structure, and output the results to another drive.
    TimeMachine tries to save space, so it uses what appears to be duplicate files, but contain no data as they are placemarks for files in later states that went unchanged from the previous states.
    If Data Rescue has the option of recovering files independently of the file/folder structure this would result in all your files from the recoved TM drive being on all one level on the second drive.
    From that second drive one could run software called DeCloner, which would flag the actual duplicate files of content, not just by name.
    The next stage perhaps would be to eliminate files with no data, the placeholders, using the Finder "size" as a sorting option.
    Saving all this remaining content to another drive to work on further, perhaps all the remaining image files can be seperated, sorted according to largest size, the largest ones (usually the ones you want to keep as they contain more quality)  and opened into iPhoto or Aperture for further refinement as you add a small batches of smaller image sizes in to compare with the larger versions for duplicates/unwanted sizes.

  • Is there any way to delete duplicate files en mas within the new itunes program?

    I've just installed the new itunes program on my laptop. I used the scan for media option to find music. Problem is almost every entry and there's several hundred of them is duplicated and in some cases triplicated within the itunes media library.
    Question ... Is there any way to delete duplicated files en mas withing the itunes library folder?
    Please don't tell me that I'm going to have to do it individually as that may take days.
    Thanks

    Apple's official advice on duplicates is here... HT2905: How to find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library. It is a manual process and the article fails to explain some of the potential pitfalls such as lost ratings and playlist membership.
    Use Shift > View > Show Exact Duplicate Items to display duplicates as this is normally a more useful selection. You need to manually select all but one of each group to remove. Sorting the list by Date Added may make it easier to select the appropriate tracks, however this works best when performed immediately after the dupes have been created.  If you have multiple entries in iTunes connected to the same file on the hard drive then don't send to the recycle bin.
    Use my DeDuper script if you're not sure, don't want to do it by hand, or want to preserve ratings, play counts and playlist membership. See this thread for background, this post for detailed instructions, and please take note of the warning
    to backup your library before deduping.
    (If you don't see the menu bar press ALT to show it temporarily or CTRL+B to keep it displayed.)
    The most recent version of the script can tidy dead links as long as there is at least one live duplicate to merge stats and playlist membership to and should cope sensibly when the same file has been added via multiple paths.
    tt2

  • How to delete duplicate files in notes

    I've been noticing that in the "Notes" application, I have some files which have multiple duplicate copies.  Is there a way to clean up duplicate files in other apps on the iPhone similar to in iTunes?  Any advice is greatly appreciated.

    I notice there are several times this question is posed on the support group. In my google mail folder, I have notes that sometimes are duplicated up to 20 times. I've hunted for any support and can't find any. It would be great to have a clear explanation of how notes, sycning, use over mail and everything works.

  • How to delete duplicate files and fix borken links

    Problem: Duplicate Files and Broken Links
    Involves 2 IBM ThinkPads (1) one main partition (system driveC:) running Windows XP SP3, (2) running Windows 7 and with two partitions  - Drive C: has the library while drive D:contains the “itunes media” folder.
    Issues:
    On both laptops, the iTunes media folder contains duplicatecopies of purchased songs and movies (some purchased prior to iTunes 9),imported or ripped songs from CDs, and redeemed digital copies of movies. EverythingI have tried results in broken links and duplicate files. Is there a method or aprogram which will allow me to disentangle this mess? I have spent hoursdeleting files, not using the iTunes “copy” function and so on but the problemcontinues. At times I simply run out of disc space and simply have to start theprocess all over again. I have spoken to someone in Apple’s iTunes tech supportand was told this was a “windows” problem?!?
    Any suggestions or advice that would help me to untanglethis mess would be greatly appreciated. Is taking the ThinkPads to a PC repairshop the only answer? How would they fix the problem?
    Thanks all, PrimeSequence.

    PrimeSequence wrote:
    Thanks 'turingtest2' for your suggestion. I know the location of the files, but iTunes keeps duplicating them as soon as I launch iTunes.
    You know the location of your file, but it sounded like iTunes doesn't. The FindTracks script is designed to fix the broken links.
    I doubt uninstalling and reinstalling will change anything. Uninstalling iTunes does not affect the contents of your media library or media folders, the files stay put.
    iTunes shouldn't generate much in the way of new files just through launching it... Exceptions include artwork files for tracks it knows it has yet to scan and any downloads related to podcast subscriptions.
    The only other thing I can think of would be some sort of error with the Automatically add to iTunes folder. Any files that are in there should be moved to their normal locations within the media folder layout, not copied, and then added to the library. I suppose the processing order could be add, then move, and if for some reason the move fails then next time you start up iTunes they could be added again. So do you have any files in the Automatically add to iTunes folder? If not is there any other pattern you can see to this duplication? Do you have any software that tries to add files to iTunes automatically?
    Actually, and in a similar vein, does this duplication happen on both machines or just the Windows 7 one? Vista introduced new "default" locations for user profiles plus a bunch of symbolic links that automagically redirect attempts by older software to look for things in the default XP locations. As a result your Music folder, for example, can appear at multiple locations within the tree of folders on your C: drive. I suppose it is just possible that some form of recursive nightmare could be going on there.
    FWIW it is much easier to manage a self-contained library where the media folder is inside the library folder.
    tt2

  • Deleting duplicate files

    I tried to join two libraries together. I checked no duplicate files. Some how i went from 5000 pic. to 8000 pictures and 3-4 duplicates of some photos. I cant go throw each picture and try to find every duplicate. How can I do this. Help this will take a month to do!!!!

    Hi Mark,
    do you have a backup of each library?
    Was were the exact steps you took to merge the libraries?
    Lori

  • How can I find and delete duplicate files in Mt Lion?

    As a competent, but self-trained mac user for 30 years, I'm totally baffled by the sudden appearance of multiple duplicate documents and .jpgs in my imac files. How can I find and delete them?

    Duplicate Annihalitor - http://brattoo.com/propaganda/ - or Decloner - http://www.pixelespressoapps.com/decloner/
    LN

  • How to find and delete duplicate files?

    Is it possible to have duplicate programs too.  I think I downloaded Picassa two times.  If so how do I delete them?
    thanks,

    Search with spotlight (command-option-space) then select the result and press command-r and it will take you to the file location.

  • Deleting duplicate files in itunes

    Im new to itunes can anyone tell me how to delete hundreds of multiple tracks and songs quickere than one at a time? thank you

    I've written a free script called DeDuper which can help remove unwanted duplicates. See this  thread for background. Depending on how you've ended up with duplicates it may even be easy to clean up by hand.
    Hold down shift and use File > Display Exact Duplicates for a more useful listing than Display Duplicates.
    tt2

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