Hi: Is there a way to check your computer for duplicate files? Or can I buy one. Can anyone help me? thanks

Question

I have been searching for hours, but sometimes I just cannot think of the right words to explain what I am looking for.

I have several copies of the same images, pix, jpegs, bmp, htmls, files. When I first started using my computer, I saved everything in every files I could. But,
there are so many, I cannot manually find all of them.

I am looking for any suggestion, idea and/or ingenious knowledge regarding my dilemma!!

Answer 1

There is a shareware tool that I have used for years called Ace Utilities. Their website is below. They offer a 30 or 60 day unrestricted trial to do your thing and move on...I liked all the other features so much, I paid for it.

From their website:

Duplicate files can appear on your system for a number of reasons, and can have a number of detrimental results aside from wasting hard drive space. Various applications may install the same files at different locations on your system, or you may copy or download the same files into different folders on your system without knowing it. Sometimes the only result of this is wasted hard drive space, but many times different copies of the same vital system file can cause havoc. "Find Duplicate Files" tool can easily find and remove duplicates of the same file.

Answer 2

use search.....example...search for pictures, word docs or music.....what-ever
ALL pictures will come up from all your files. It will take you a little time but just make new folders (yea add some more files) on your desktop. Or store your pictures on an external drive...music too. Move what you want to keep into the new spot and this time DELETE the ones that are copies. Taking a really big magnet and passing it over your computer will also get rid of ALL copies.

Answer 3

click start then search select files or folders then type *.jpg and click find or ok or what ever the button is. the * is a wild card that will find any name .jpg is the file extension so *.jpg will find every file with that extension. The results window will display the complete path name and file name. You can delete files from there too.