Software To Find Duplicate Files On An HD?
Dec 13, 2005this should be easy for you forum guys (and gals).. anybody knows a good (and free) software that can find duplicate files on an HD so i can get some HD real estate back?
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Duplicate Files
Feb 17, 2005What is the best way to find and delete duplicate files and clean up my system?
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Jun 13, 2008Recently re-installed WXP after Computer Crash.
Copied "My Documents" folder from thumb drive to the computer
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Noticed several folders in "My Documents" were missing so thought I didn't back up to the thumb drive often enough so figured they were lost in the crash.
Wasl looking for a file and was unsure in which folder it might be located so did a "search" and found it in "My Documents". Went back to the "My Documents" folder and it wasn't there so did another search. This is what I discovered:
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Feb 28, 2007I recently ran dupfinder 2.0 from windows xp pro on my lap top which runs windows xp media center 2005 sp2 My laptop is a Gateway mx6955 intel t1400@1.83ghz .99gb ram I have 9049
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Jul 18, 2006I want to purge my system from "true" duplicate files. However, when I tried to do so in the past, I ran duplicate file finders, and deleted files which were supposedly duplicates. I then had to locate and reload a number of them because I began to have inconsistencies in my system. My system presently shows a large number of duplicates, but how can I be assured they are before I delete them?
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