Windows 8's built-in search function is pretty good at finding individual files and all the other files that share the same name. However, it does not do a good job of clearly flagging identical files ...

Dissy is a free disk space analyzer and visualizer tool for Windows PC that lets you find, remove duplicate files, and manage storage. It is an all-in-one application that helps you in different ...

There may come a time when your Windows computer system is filled with duplicate files. No one likes that at all because, depending on the number, it can be difficult to remove them all. But that’s ...

My cloud backup habit left me with 35,000 hidden duplicates, until I found this free app.

So, it recently came to my attention that Dropbox for Android, when syncing files, automatically renames all photos and videos to a datetime stamp, not preserving the original filenames as they exist ...

It occurs to me, after doing a file-type search on one of my hard drives, that after several years of upgrades, backs-ups, re-installs, new hard drives, etc., I have collected multiple copies of many ...

Jeff Fehring wants a way to find and eliminate duplicate songs in his large music collection. There are plenty of good programs for finding duplicate files–based on file name, size, and checksums–but ...

Your Mac didn’t mean to become a photo hoarder. But here we are. Ten screenshots of the same receipt, five identical sunsets, ...

Google's Picasa sorts and displays images on your computer, but does not actually create copies of those images to store internally. If you already have duplicate images on your computer, they can ...

Some files on a Linux system can appear in more than one location. Follow these instructions to find and identify these "identical twins" and learn why hard links can be so advantageous. Identifying ...