Finding Erasing Duplicate Files

Is There a Way to search your Hard Drive find duplicate files?

PaulScheer, Welcome to the discussion area!
Be careful with this... there are some files in system level directories that have the same name as files in your user directory. Although the names are the same they are not the same file. For example the contents of /Library and /Users/username/Library may look similar but they aren't duplicate files.

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George

Why would you have found 20GB of duplicate images? iPhoto has built-in duplicate detection, it can remove any duplicates or prevent them from being imported altogether. Did you disable this in iPhoto for some reason? Or were you still using folders and subfolders to store your photos?
Just because two pictures have the exact same filename does NOT mean they are identical. If this application you used simply compared their filenames, it's possible you actually lost all those photos and not just some duplicates. ;( Because many cameras reuse filenames after a certain point!

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I used TidyUp to clean up the mess in my wife's Pictures folder. It did a pretty good job.

Erasing duplicate files

Hi, I recently re-installed Leopard on my machine and now i have duplicate folders with duplicate applications, library, songs, etc.....i have in the past deleted my hold hard drive thinking that it was duplicates...How can i know which files are duplicates? When i click on the home icon i have a list of my applications, library, mussic, etc...and when i click on the hard drive i also have the same list (which i think it's the origina) then under that i have again another list with the same applications...I actually might have triplicates......can anyone help? PS: i have a powebook G4.

You can use one of these free apps.
http://download.cnet.com/Duplicate-Files-Searcher/3000-2248_4-178698.html
http://dll.nu/duper/
 Cheers, Tom

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My program need to access a file from application server. If there exists DUPLICATES in the same folder I need to pick the one with latest TIMESTAMP.
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Hi Dude,
I suppose ,file names are unique in the same folder.
So proceed normally,specifying the exact file path.
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Hello iBook_user
Welcome to Apple Discussions
A "do over" would probably be the best and fastest way to go!
Pop in you Install Disk, erase the Internal HD and Restore from the last Time Machine backup before the Internal went south.
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The behaviour of PSE that you're noticing is as designed, because of the concept of "permanently accessible storage" versus "removable media storage".
I think you're making this a little more complicated than it should be. If I understand what you want to do, it's this:
Use the server as the permanent repository for the "good", "finished", "final" versions of your photos.
Have the photos on your notebook's HD so you can work on them at any time.
Have an Organizer catalog on your notebook PC so you can tag photos, etc., at any time.
Do I correctly understand your request?
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Use the concept of the server being the "main" repository for your photos, and your notebook PC as having "working" (or "in progress") versions of your photos.
Use MicroSoft's free SyncToy utility:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=15155
to maintain synchronization between your server and your PC for the photos. Doing so will allow you to keep whatever directory structure makes sense for you.
Create a new catalog on your PC, pointing to only the photos on your notebook PC.
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Finding duplicate file names

Hello
How can I find the duplicate file names in database?
select substr( file_name , instr (file_name, '/',-1)+1) from dba_data_files;
users.dbf01
tools.dbf01
tools.dbf02
..What I want to find is, I want to find the duplicate file names.
ie:
users.dbf01
users.dbf01
sysaux.dbf02
sysaux.dbf02
..

Using the query you posted above...
select count(*), the_file_name
from
   select
      substr( file_name , instr (file_name, '/',-1)+1) as the_file_name
   from dba_data_files
group by the_file_name
having count(*) > 1;Ought to do it.

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I need to get these files uploaded so we can listen to them on the iTouch, but I have had no success today. The frustrating part is that I have done 3 CDs previously with no issues.
Even if I did find a duplicate file, I don't know how to delete the file. I do have 1 failed "Track 01" in the Recently Updated section, but it won't play, because it can't "locate" the file. When I try to delete in iTunes, "Delete" is greyed out and unavailable.
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I keep getting 'check Internet connection' getting bit sick of it now ;( sorry cant help

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try this:
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You shouldn't have any duplicate system files, the OS should take care of that.
AFA where your disk space, use WhatSize or Omni DiskSweeper
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Do you have good backup? If not create one now.
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I use an amamzing piece of software called Duplicate Image Detetector. I ran it on my iPhoto 8 library and it found many duplicates, some "originals" some modified. I don't want all these dupolicates as my library is very confusing.
Duplicatee Image Detector show exactly where in the find the duplicate file are: e.g. 2006 originals, or 2006 modified.
How can I access these directories--not possible as normal finder folders since they are hidden behind iphoto application icon.

As Terence warned if you do any removing of files in the library via the Finder you will have trashed the library. Each photo will have a minimum of 2 files in the library, the original and the thumbnail. If you edit the photo or the photo is a portrait oriented photo from a camera with the auto rotate capability there will be a 3rd copy of that photo created in the Modified folder. It's the nature of the beast. If that's not acceptable to you you'll have to find another DAM (digital asset management) application to use. There are a number of them out there.
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What is the process to find and remove duplicate files. The tab is grayed out. I am using version 13 and have over 1000 files and many of them are duplicates

In unix you can use a combination of ls and diff.
Unfortunately Apple is notorious for creating crippleware, so they have only provided this function in iPhoto and maybe iTunes. There is no easy Finder solution, such as would make sense as part of Smart Folders!
Stupid Apple

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