My 200 GB external hard drive had reached its bottleneck with the additions of TV series Chuck and it's time to do housekeeping; removed unnecessary files & old videos etc. There were not so many files I was willing to remove, so I need to scrutinize a little bit harder (which folder takes up significant amount of space & see what can be deleted) to free up some space otherwise there will be no room for new fresh tv series. It turned out my mp3 folder took up roughly 35 GB of space. A quick check on the mp3 folders, expose duplicate songs and some of them got up to 3 duplicates!
I knew it long time ago but I keep procrastinating so the number of duplicates grows out of hand. So here are few softwares I found on Google that are able to help me in doing the housekeeping.
1. Heatsoft Clone Cleaner (HCC)
HCC comes in 2 version free and premium. The free version is more than enough to do the job but of course premium one provides additional features such as checking for duplicates in multiple drives and the ability to exclude subfolders from checking for duplicates. The only downside is it keeps asking me to upgrade to PRO version.
Duplicate File Finder is a simple, but effective tool to locate duplicate files in one or more selected search paths. It scans the files and compares them based on Byte for Byte Comparison, which ensures 100% accuracy. You can then choose to delete the selected duplicate or original files. The program is multi threaded and performs scans quickly. For 200 GB it only takes roughly 5 minutes to complete. It's totally free!
Double Killer is able to scan for duplicates by using names, sizes, dates and CRC32. They are not 100% accurate and if you want to use raw binary comparison, you need to Purchase the PRO version.
This software is able to exclude system folders such as windows and program files. It says that it search for true duplicates (files with same contents) and it scan pretty fast!
I used Heatsoft Clone Cleaner Lite to clear up the duplicates (roughly 3 GB. What a waste of space!) and will be using this software in the future.
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