Q:My computer is generating copy or duplicate file. How can I remove this?
A: I believe Duplicate Cleaner can meet your need and even do more for you.
If you store multiple files in many locations on your desktop, numerous duplicate files may accumulate in your hard drive and compose a significant portion of the harddisk space, make your computer run in much slower way, or even more seriously, let it crashed. In this case, Duplicate Filter is a best freeware for you to find and clean the duplicate files on your desktop. It may help your computer get rid of clutter and free up hard drive space.
If you want to want to remove the duplicates on your PC, the first step is to find them.
SO HOW TO FIND COPY OR DUPLICATE FILES USING DUPLICATE FILTER?
Typically, duplicate documents are scattered across many different folders, making them difficult to search and clean. However, Duplicate Filter offers you three ways to find duplicate files.
Find Duplicates
1. Click “Add Folder” button in “Find Duplicate” to select the search scope, a drive, a folder, or many drives and folders.
2. Define “Compare Mode”: By Name only, Name+Size, Name+CRC, CPC only, CRC Sampling, Size, MP3 Tag, ect.
3. Click “Scan” button to start your searching. It allows you to adjust the scanning speed.
4. If you want to find duplicates in other totally different folders or drives, you can click “Clear” button to delete the previous search scope. Or if you only want to change some of the existing searched folders or drives, you can select them and then click “Delete”.
Compare two files by CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check)
Compare two files by CRC is available. Sometimes, you need to find out whether two files are the same but don’t want to open them to compare, because it may cost lots of time if you have many files to compare.
In this case, Duplicate Filter can really save your time any energy. Then how can you compare two files by CRC using Duplicate Filter?
1. Click “File CRC Compare Tool” on “Tools”.
2. Open File 1 one and File 2, which you want to compare
3. Click “Compare” button to start comparing. (Or you can stop the comparing process by clicking “Stop”)
4. When the comparing is completed, it will pop up a window to show whether those two files are the same or not.
Find duplicates for a specified file
You can specify a file and then choose the search scope and mode to find out its duplicates.
1. Click on “Tools-Duplicate File Search Tool”
2. Add the folder to the finding scope and select search mode
3. Click “Start” to start searching.
4. When the searching is completed, it will display whether there are duplicates or not.
After finding the duplicates, you can choose the way you want to cope with the results.
HOW TO REMOVE THE SEARCHED DUPLICATES?
After the search finishes, you may find out multiple duplicates on your Windows 7 or XP, which really slow down the operating speed of it. So you need to deal with them immediately.
You can right click a found duplicate and then select a solution “Delete/Move to Recycle Bin/Rename/Move to Folder”.
In addition, you can click “Batch Select” button to select files and then click “Batch Resolve Selected” to resolve them.
Duplicate Filter is designed to help you to find and remove useless duplicate files stored on your desktop. Using this best free duplicate filter tool, you can
significantly increase free space on your disk.
Key Features:
- Search for identical music, video, pictures, documents and any other files by different means, such as CRC, Name, Name+CRC, Content, Name+Content, ect.
- Compares files by CRC
- Find duplicates of a specified file in defined search scope by various means.
- Significantly increase free space on your disk
- Help you to organize your disk in less time
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