Deleting these files is very important if you don’t want to waste space, but doing it manually is quite complicated, especially when you have thousands of them, or don’t know that they even exist.įortunately, there is always “an app for that”, and duplicate files are not an exception. Duplicate files are nothing but a waste of space and make it hard to search important files. Files can be deleted, or copied or moved to another location for checking.Duplicate files can be easily created when you are exchanging data between different devices or download more than one copy of a same file in different directories or drives.

Original files are marked in blue, with duplicates underneath, so tick individual files or select Mark and Mark All to tick everything at once. You may have to wait some time, depending on the size of the selected folders.Įventually a list of matches appears on screen. Click that path and then click “Scan” at the bottom right.Īfter that a progress bar will appear as DupeGuru gets to work. On the left column, choose “This PC” and then select your “Pictures” folder then click “Select Folder” at the bottom right.Īfter the window disappears you will see a path to your pictures appear in the scan window. Tap on the plus icon to choose the folders to scan for duplicates. Since this guide is going to be for Pictures choose that mode.

Select the application mode for the appropriate files you are going to be scanning for: Standard, Music, or Pictures. This guide shows you how to scan and remove duplicate photos using the PC application “ dupeGuru”.

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