How to Remove Duplicate Files on a Mac

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Tip 1 - How to Find and Remove Duplicate Files on Mac OS X

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by Madhavi Sardeshpande | permalink

Duplicate files are a waste of disk space, consuming that precious SSD space on a modern Mac and cluttering your Time Machine backups. Remove them to free up space on your Mac.

For further reading: http://www.howtogeek.com/201007/how-to-find-and-remove-duplicate-files-on-mac-os-x/ ^[1]

Tip 2 - Gemini: The duplicate finder

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by Rod Greening | permalink

Find and remove duplicate files from your Mac with the help of Gemini app.

For further reading: http://macpaw.com/gemini ^[2]

Tip 3 - Duplicate Detective review: Make short work of finding duplicate files

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by Mark Neiber | permalink

If you'd like a simple and inexpensive tool for weeding out duplicates files on your drives, Duplicate Detective is for you.

For further reading: http://www.macworld.com/article/2086400/duplicate-detective-review-make-short-work-of-finding-duplicate-files.html ^[3]

Tip 4 - The Best Duplicate File Finder for Mac

Published: 9 years, 6 month(s) ago | Submitted by bill oneill | permalink

Your photo library is a mess. Your downloads folder is a mess. Your music folders are riddled with so many duplicates that you can’t tell what’s new and what’s left over from Napster. We all have too many duplicate files on our computers we don’t need. To get rid of them on your Mac, we recommend Gemini.
Tags: mac app directory, app directory, mac, os x, files, file management, Lifehacker

For further reading: http://lifehacker.com/the-best-duplicate-file-finder-for-mac-1696993702 ^[4]