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 ...

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 ...

As computer users, sometimes we tend to create duplicate files, and sometimes, we have no idea. For many of us, our Windows 11/10 system has many duplicate files, so the question is how to get rid of ...

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 ...

It struck me how much space duplicates occupy only after I stumbled upon a full 256GB SSD drive that seemed mostly empty. It had files from old backups, cloud sync folders, and nested project ...

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 ...