How to delete duplicate data from my pc?

lucytaylor01

My pc has huge duplicate files and photos and I want to delete all of them to speed up my pc's performance. Can anybody suggest me some tips and tricks?

Note = Can't do one by one. Thanks

MadeofWax

You could try dupeguru.
https://dupeguru.voltaicideas.net/
I've used it for video files and it's worked for me.

lucytaylor01

@MadeofWax said:

Is it paid or free?

raabje

In the free version of CC cleaner there is an option for removing duplicate files.

https://www.ccleaner.com/

For photo´s I have used a more advanced program, Duplicate cleaner pro, that one checks the characteristics of the photo, and file size, date, and other things. I had backups of backups, and then another backup etc., so photo´s existed multiple times on the same disk and other disks. You have to be careful you don´t remove to much.

https://www.duplicatecleaner.com/

I also used All Dup

https://www.alldup.de/en_download_alldup.php

I used them together, to get a good result and to prevent I erase too much. From my memory (I did this in Covid time, working at home, enough spare time to run the long search jobs), finding duplicate movie files is still a bit problematic. Sometimes you get false positives with this.

And, for the sake of a good backup strategy, it is good to erase duplicate files. I am not sure your PC will really speed up after cleaning. I think SSD disks need some clear space to breath and to move files around, so that is my main goal.

I also use Tree Size Free, to find out which software uses a lot of space. For example Itunes makes huge backups on my C drive.

https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free

I also have used Winmerge, inside is a tool to compare folders, I used this to check if my manual backups went ok. If a file is missing or is damaged, it shows up.

https://winmerge.org/

MadeofWax

@lucytaylor01 said:

@MadeofWax said:

Is it paid or free?

Free when installed it and still free as far as I know.

lucytaylor01

@raabje said:
In the free version of CC cleaner there is an option for removing duplicate files.

https://www.ccleaner.com/

For photo´s I have used a more advanced program, Duplicate cleaner pro, that one checks the characteristics of the photo, and file size, date, and other things. I had backups of backups, and then another backup etc., so photo´s existed multiple times on the same disk and other disks. You have to be careful you don´t remove to much.

https://www.duplicatecleaner.com/

I also used All Dup

https://www.alldup.de/en_download_alldup.php

I used them together, to get a good result and to prevent I erase too much. From my memory (I did this in Covid time, working at home, enough spare time to run the long search jobs), finding duplicate movie files is still a bit problematic. Sometimes you get false positives with this.

And, for the sake of a good backup strategy, it is good to erase duplicate files. I am not sure your PC will really speed up after cleaning. I think SSD disks need some clear space to breath and to move files around, so that is my main goal.

I also use Tree Size Free, to find out which software uses a lot of space. For example Itunes makes huge backups on my C drive.

https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free

I also have used Winmerge, inside is a tool to compare folders, I used this to check if my manual backups went ok. If a file is missing or is damaged, it shows up.

https://winmerge.org/

I used this software (https://www.duplicatefilesfixer.com/) for delete duplicate data but i can only delete 15 photos in trial version. So I need to search more tool for now. Well thank you for your suggestion. I will check them.