Duplicate File Locator/Eliminator?

[BrendanLeahy]

Hey all -

I'm on a Mac, and over the years, I've accumulated and moved around footage from different drives to various sub-folders trying to get a sense of "organization"

Tonight, while transferring over some files from a couple of old drives to a new one, I discovered I have, in fact, inadvertently duplicated some files + folders over time.

Essentially, I'm wondering if there's some sort of program out there that can help me locate duplicate files by name and size so I can start clearing those out?

I know Hedge kind of does this? But I need to be copying the same files into another folder or area with those same files to detect duplicates, so it doesn't quite help :/

 

[Marc Wielage]

That's an excellent question. I had one years ago, but it went away with OSX.

Check out the dupe file detectors compared here:

https://thesweetbits.com/best-duplicate-file-finder-remover-mac/

https://nektony.com/tips/best-duplicate-file-finder-mac

Gemini2 looks good "on paper," but I have not used it.


Comparing the contents of two similar file folders is also a handy utility to have:

https://naarakstudio.com/direqual/

 

[BrendanLeahy]

That's an excellent question. I had one years ago, but it went away with OSX.

Check out the dupe file detectors compared here:

https://thesweetbits.com/best-duplicate-file-finder-remover-mac/

https://nektony.com/tips/best-duplicate-file-finder-mac

Gemini2 looks good "on paper," but I have not used it.


Comparing the contents of two similar file folders is also a handy utility to have:

https://naarakstudio.com/direqual/

Oh these are awesome - thank you, Marc!

 

[Grayson Fahrner]

Any strong recommendations for PC file checker versions?

I struggle sometimes when similar footage is located on drives with different cluster sizes not being detected as duplicates of each other. File explorer will list different "size on disk" values and I get scared to delete anything