Duplicate files are a waste of disk space, consuming that precious SSD space on a modern Mac and cluttering your. Remove them to. There are many polished Mac apps for this — but they’re mostly paid software.
The deep OS X integration is also a bonus. You can search for duplicates right from Finder, preview selections from the app, and Gemini features a handy undelete option if you catch a mistake at.
Those shiny apps in the Mac app store will probably work well, but we have some good options if you don’t want to whip out your credit card. And Other Paid Apps If you do want to spend money on a duplicate-file-finder app, looks like one of the best options with the slickest interfaces. The trial version worked well for us, and the interface certainly stands out from barebones, free applications like dupeGuru.
Gemini can also scan your iTunes and iPhoto library for duplicates. If you’re willing to pay $10 for a better interface, Gemini seems like a good bet. There are other, similarly polished duplicate-file-finders in the Mac App Store, too — but Apple flags this one as an Editors’ Choice, and we can see why. As a bonus, the allows you to search for and find duplicates, but not remove them. So, if you really wanted, you could use the demo to find duplicates on your Mac, locate them in Finder, and then remove them by hand. Other paid duplicate-file-finder apps have demos that function in a similar way, so this may be convenient if you just want to run an occasional scan and you don’t mind deleting a handful of duplicates by hand.
There are many good-quality, paid duplicate-file-finding apps for Mac. You can find them with a quick trip to the Mac App Store., and RELATED: We also recommended dupeGuru for. This application is both open-source and cross-platform. It’s simple to use — open the application, add one or more folders to scan, and click Scan. You’ll see a list of duplicate files, and you can select them and easily move them to the Trash or another folder.
You can also preview them, verifying that they actually are duplicates before tossing them away. DupeGuru is available in three different flavors — a standard edition, an edition designed for finding duplicate music files, and an edition designed for finding duplicate pictures. These tools won’t just find exact duplicates, but should find the same songs encoded at different bitrates and the same picture resized, rotated, or edited. This application is utilitarian, but it does its job well. You don’t get the shiny interface that you do with the paid Mac apps, but it’s a good free tool for finding and clearing duplicate files. If you want a free application for finding and removing duplicate files on a Mac, this is the one to use. ITunes iTunes has a built-in feature that can find duplicate music and video files in your iTunes library.
It won’t help with other types of files or media files not in iTunes, but it can be a quick way to free up some space if you have a big media library with duplicate files. To use this feature, open iTunes, click the View menu, and select Show Duplicate Items. You can also hold the Option key on your keyboard and then click the Show Exact Duplicate Items link. This will only show duplicates with the same exact name, artist, and album. After you click this, iTunes will show you a sorted list of duplicates next to each other. You can go through the list and delete any duplicates from your computer if they actually are duplicates you want to delete.
When you’re done, click View Show All Items to get back to the default list of media.
When you have a really huge photo library on your Mac, it is possible that you have a lot of duplicates of those photos on your machine. Duplicates are often created by various applications to ensure that you do not end-up damaging the original photo while modifying it on your machine. They are also created when importing photo libraries to a photo viewing application. If you think your Mac has duplicate photos and they occupy a huge chunk of memory space that can otherwise be used to store other things, you have a way to find those duplicates and wipe them off your machine. There is an app called Photos Duplicate Cleaner for Mac that lets you find duplicate photos and delete them from your Mac. The app is available for free in the Mac App Store. Here’s how you can use it on your Mac: Finding and Deleting Duplicate Photos on a Mac Download and install the app from the Mac App Store on your Mac.
Launch the app from the Launchpad on your Mac. When the app launches, click on “Photos Duplicate Cleaner” followed by “Preferences” It should take you to the preferences panel.
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Once in the preferences panel, select “/Volumes” and then click on “-” as shown below. What it will do is remove the other drives that exist on your Mac from the ignorance list. That way all the drives on your Mac will be searched for duplicate photos instead of the main drive.
When that is done, close the panel. Click on the button that says “Select Folder and Scan Duplicates Now” on the main screen of the app. That is where the searching for duplicates begins. You will be prompted to select a folder where you want to run the scan.
Just select the folder where you have stored your photos and that you think contains duplicates. Then, click on “Open” to open that folder in the app. As soon as you click Open in the above step, the app should begin finding duplicates.
Once it is done, you will be shown how many duplicates it found and how much memory space you can free up if you delete them. Click the “OK” button to move forward. In order to prevent accidental deletion of your important photos, what you can do is unselect all the photos that have been marked as duplicates by the app. That way you will be able to individually select the photos that you wish to be removed from your machine. To unselect the photos, click on the Menu icon and select “Unselect All.” If you want to free up some memory space really quickly, you can sort the photos by their size so that the largest one will appear at the top, and you can get your work started there. You can then move down to the smallest one, but deleting it will not provide you with much memory space. To do that, click on the Menu icon and select “Sort items by Size” followed by “Descending.” It will put all the photos in the descending order on the app screen.