How can I spot quickly dublicated and copies of my original files?

Hi,
I am running out of space and cant seem to see why the little number of files that I assume that I have takes so much space!
I do suspect that I have dublicated files and several copies of original files (the file/s and folder/s names might be differing somehow, but most likely the content is the same or differ only slightly.
Is there a very fast and smart way to locate such dublicated and copied files of my original files anywhere on my Macbook?
I have applied some of the suggestions made in the forums on these topics, but non-was useful till now!

Thank you for your support, and suggestions.
On the side may I ask you, considering a good cloud services compared to your suggested kind of HDD, which one would you end up suggesting more decisively incl. value for money / security / reliability / usefulness / user-orienttion?
As to my case, I have discovered many files, on my HDD that I "download" through opening the same emails with attachments several times - unknowingly! They were download each time without me being aware of this! I said without being aware as I didnt save them I just opened them to view as far as I am aware. The file names seem to change either at the beginning or end. Thats why I wasnt able to locate them quickly, and ended up with many dublicates, with small sized files its not an issues but if they are multimedia files and large ones they do take much space!
Is there a way to avoid this, while opening email attachments to view, what the stuff is all about before either deciding to save or skip after viewing? 

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