Where can I search for and delete duplicate files music and photos?

I have used about 200gb on music and photos. I want to delete them but have no clue where to find them. 100gb seems about rights I just can find the duplicates.....

Hi.I'm from Italia.Is it possible that in all the Powerbooks, and iMacs that i've owned(about 10 machines)everytime i transferred all my stuff,photos, contacts, they automatic quintuplicate and became impossible now to manage?i have 27,000photos..and 9000 contacts..but really,maybe have 5-6-7000 photos,(i guess when i manipulate them from iPhoto,it generated dupl.)and maybe 2000contacts..so..now, it's impossible to clean up!i've tried Duplicate-annilators,photo-diet-shrink,ecc..contacts...i will do them in maybe one month of work..and try to eliminate them my self,but, photos..?impossible!please help!thanks a lot!danilo

Similar Messages

How can I compare and delete duplicate files?

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

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]

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/

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

Can you search for more than one person in a photo

Let's say you named all the faces in iphoto and now you want to search for a photo that contains two particular people, for example I want iphoto to find all the pictures that have Bob and Mary in that shot.
Is there a way to do this. I tried and it finds Bobs and Mary's pictures but not the ones where they are together? Maybe there is a way by writing Bob + Mary and then iphoto will find all those pictures?
Thanks

It will work with any of the smart album criteria - file menu ==> new smart album
The easiest way to see is to take a look at what is available there - and make a smart album or two - if you don't like them just drag them to the iPhoto trash and do another one
LN

"Searching for movie data in file [filename]" and iDVD hangs.

I have a project I saved and I want to open and make a change to. iDVD loads the project and displays the title. When I click to edit one of the scene selection menus, it goes off "searching for movie data" and hangs until I kill it.
Anyone have any ideas how to fix this? I really don't want to have to re-do my project.
Thanks!
Scott

This frequently helps solve some problems. Quit iDVD. Search for the file named com.apple.iDVD.plist and trash it. (A new one will be created next launch of iDVD.) Or look in: User/Library/Preferences. This may solve project loading errors too. Restart and use Disk Utility to Repair Permissions.
You'll need to reset some Preferences.

Where can I find how to delete duplicate photos without manually deleting one at a time? Photos were duplicated when I did a sync with my phone and iPad. Thanks.

How can I easily delete all duplciate photos from my entire library? I really don't want to do this manually as I have many photos. When I did my sync with camera and photos using my iPhone and iPad many of my photos were duplicated. Thanks

Photos does not have a built-in duplicate remover.
Try to restore the Photos library from before you synced and duplicated the photos from your backup.
Most third party duplicate cleaners do not yet work with Photos, but there will be soon one that works with Photos:
ttp://www.fatcatsoftware.com/comments/announcing_powerphotos
Also, Duplicate Annihilator is now available for Photos.

How do i find and delete duplicate files

I know that I have many duplicate downloads (particularly Adobe Reader Files) that I would like to trash.
Is there an easier way to find duplicates other than opening them all and comparing them?

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

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.

How do I find and delete duplicate files safely?

In looking in "all files", I see that I have several duplicate of files; sometimes two, sometimes three of the same file. I somehow did this when transferring my files to this new Mac, but never the less, I would like to clean this up. Is there an app that would safely do this? There must be a better way than just looking through and cleaning this up manually....Please help, and thank you in advance!

I can't recommend an application, but suggest you avoid applications like CleanMyMac, MacKeeper, and other cleaning programs. They usually cause more harm than good.
EasyFind works pretty well at finding files.
EasyFind – Spotlight Replacement

Searching for movie data in file

Does anyone know how to fix the problem of the "Searching for movie data in file" interruption and annoyance? I can not access my movies to edit - or do anything for that matter - because this thing keeps popping up. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
Thanks!

Hi
Did You move or alter any folder named
• iMovie Event's - or -
• iMovie Project's
Don't - If done try movien all back excatly.
Moving Event's and Projects must
• be done within the iMovie Application
• to a Mac OS Extended (hfs) formatted external/secondary Hard Disk
(Never to - NetWork Storage or UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange formatted devices)
Free Space on Start-Up (Mac OS) Hard Disk. How Much ?
Yours Bengt W

How do I search for lines with a particular pattern and delete them when a match occurs

How do I search for lines with a particular patter and delete them when a match occurs? For example delete lines containing SUB_NAME = "?" where ? is any string.

How do I search for lines with a particular patter and delete them when a match occurs? For example delete lines containing SUB_NAME = "?" where ? is any string.
Lines in what? And what language are you using to develop with?
Are the lines in a text file? A RichTextBox? A TextBox? Some other control? A List(Of String)?
Is there some expectation by you that by providing what you wrote in your question post that the knowledge in your mind about what you are thinking about will mysteriously emanate to anybody reading your post so all of the sudden your knowledge will
become their knowledge and they will be able to provide you with an answer as they will suddenly understand what you are trying to do? Because that's probably impossible. Most people try providing enough information in a question so anybody, even stupid people
like me, can understand what they want. Maybe you should try that. As well as selecting an appropriate forum for your question in the future. Usually a question like this is related to programming in a particular language therefore a language forum may be
a good choice. Or not.
La vida loca

How do I exclude directories from Finder search results? I'm trying to find the biggest FILES on my computer and it keeps showing me "Macintosh HD" as the biggest, how can I search for files of type "NOT folder/directory"?

Basically I've lost 10GB of free space over the last few weeks so my plan was to search for files modified in the last 2 weeks in order to figure out which ones are big and where that space went.
So I open finder, go to "File > Find", and enter a search:
Modified > In the last 2 weeks
All fine so far.
Problem is, it's showing whole directories as results. Which essentially means that when I order the list by size, Macintosh HD is at the top, followed by "Users", then "Applications", then one of my bigger movie files, then "Library", etc.
How can I do a search which will ignore folders? I want individual files. Knowing that Macintosh HD is the biggest item on my computer and was modified in the last 2 weeks is utterly useless to me.
Older versions of Finder in OS 9 had a feature where you could search for "files, whose type "IS NOT" folder", but OS X doesn't seem to have such a feature.
Can anyone help?

How much free space is on the HD, where has all the space gone?
OmniDiskSweeper is likely the easiest/best, and is now free...
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidisksweeper/download/

How can i find and delete duplicate emails on my mac

I use Apple Mail, Gmail and a third party email on my few Apple devices (iMac and Macbook Air both running Mavericks and iPhone 4s running current version iOS).
I would like to sort through, locate and delete duplicate emails (from several misguided approaches to Rules, Mailboxes, Smart Mailboxes, etc.)

Hi,
Presuming the Post is about the Messages app and iMessages.
If you delete them they are gone or the Mac.
An iMessages arrives and is displayed in the App.
there is a setting in the Preferences > General section about Saving on Close.
The iMessages are also stored in the chat.db items (unless deleted) and this provides the "history" when you reconnect to a contact who is not currently on display in the main window.
In Mavericks Saved Chats and the chat.db items (there are three in total) are held in different places.
The app does not work like Mail where the emails can be left on the Server and "read" by other devices.
The iMessages are pushed to the devices that then accepts them.
After that the "sync" function ends (What you do with the iMessages on one device is not seen or changed on another)
9:54 pm Friday; October 31, 2014
 iMac 2.5Ghz i5 2011 (Mavericks 10.9)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad

Where can I search for and delete duplicate files music and photos?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for