help please, disk clean up

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Evening all, I have have just upgraded my laptop and have copied all my photos from my old computer to my external hard drive. I have now realised I have duplicate if not triplicate copies of some photos. I cannot find out for the life of me how to delate the duplicates in a simple manner. Can anyone please advise the best way to do this? I am using a Mac book pro and western digital external hard drive.

Thank you for the help in advance
 
There's a mac app called Gemini which is good try that.

Advise is go download SETTAPP it's a new service You get 28 days free and all apps are fully activated, Gemini is one of them... give it a whirl great service I used it
 
I suggest you download and install the free version of CCleaner
https://www.piriform.com/CCLEANER
Click on Tools > Duplicate Finder > Search
Then delete what you want to - it doesn't take very long
(It's amazing just how many duplicates of all sorts of things, that are unnecessarily using up space, you will find).
 
+1 for Gemini
 
Morning, thanks for these, I will give it a go. With either of these can you check what is about to be deleted? Just in case?
 
Mag1cp2x said:
I suggest you download and install the free version of CCleaner
https://www.piriform.com/CCLEANER
Click on Tools > Duplicate Finder > Search
Then delete what you want to - it doesn't take very long
(It's amazing just how many duplicates of all sorts of things, that are unnecessarily using up space, you will find).
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Good luck clicking all the files you want to delete, not exactly user friendly!
 
BMG said:
Morning, thanks for these, I will give it a go. With either of these can you check what is about to be deleted? Just in case?
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Yes you can preview. Saved me a lot of time
 
littleted said:
There's a mac app called Gemini which is good try that.

Advise is go download SETTAPP it's a new service You get 28 days free and all apps are fully activated, Gemini is one of them... give it a whirl great service I used it
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Hi rob, thanks for the heads up, I've downloaded & got it running now. Found 100gb so far & only 1/4 of the way through. Eek. For my own sanity, how do I know that these are definitely duplicates & ok just to click delete at the end of t?

Cheers for the help.
 
Mikesphotaes said:
Good luck clicking all the files you want to delete, not exactly user friendly!
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Oh, I don't know, it didn't take too long once started. Most importantly it's very 'accurate'.
I expect it's a pain if something important gets deleted by multi selecting.
 
Mag1cp2x said:
Oh, I don't know, it didn't take too long once started. Most importantly it's very 'accurate'.
I expect it's a pain if something important gets deleted by multi selecting.
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It would work fine if you could use a button to select all the duplicates, however manually clicking on each of the thousands of duplicates, is off the scale for RSI !
 
Well after three attempts of using Gemini, the programme crashes 3/4 of the way through and doesn't do anything else. Help. I just have it searching the external hard drive. I really don't fancy doing this manually, however I beginning to wonder if this is the only way?
 
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