Windows 8's built-in search function is pretty good at finding individual files and all the other files that share the same name. However, it does not do a good job of clearly flagging identical files ...

If your Mac is running low on storage, chances are that duplicate files and photos occupy a significant part of it. If the number is low, you can get away by performing a manual search, a terminal ...

If your Mac is starting to run slow the first thing to check is if you are running low on space. It’s generally advised that you should have 10% of your total space free on your Mac for the most ...

Glary Duplicate Cleaner is another simple yet powerful duplicate file cleaning software that can automatically find and delete duplicate files, leaving more valuable free disk space. Glary Duplicate ...

Stevey asked the Answer Line forum for advise on finding and removing duplicate files. A hard drive is like a family garage–junk expands to fill available space. An SSD behaves very much the same way, ...

Finding files swiftly and efficiently is essential for productivity, but Windows Search doesn't always cut it. Thankfully, there’s a variety of third-party tools that outperform Windows Search in ...

Ashisoft Duplicate Finder is an easy-to-use program for finding duplicate files on your hard drive, but it might not be worth its $30 price tag. Finding and removing duplicate files is a great way to ...

There may come a time when your Windows computer system is filled with duplicate files. No one likes that at all because, depending on the number, it can be difficult to remove them all. But that’s ...

As much as we love feature-packed applications that perform countless tasks, there’s nothing wrong with an inexpensive utility that does the one thing we need without much fuss and bother. Such is ...

Are there any utlities out there that will search for duplicate files? Something that works along the lines of PC's Ace Utilities Duplicate File Finder (i.e. compares files based on MD5 or CRC hash)?

It occurs to me, after doing a file-type search on one of my hard drives, that after several years of upgrades, backs-ups, re-installs, new hard drives, etc., I have collected multiple copies of many ...