A billion people worldwide use WhatsApp as their primary means of instant messaging online. Users can chat with each other, or inside the WhatsApp groups. They can share their live location, maps, contacts, images, videos and PDF documents. The free-to-use communication app also allows voice and video calling for free. It supports nearly all smartphone models, and runs smoothly on 4G and 3G internet connections.
WhatsApp consumes a larger portion of your smartphone and SD memory card, and adversely affects your phone’s performance. A lot of duplicate content, including images and videos, can be regularly cleaned up to free-up storage space.
This guideline will help you get rid of duplicate WhatsApp junk.
We strongly recommend that you should consider backing-up your WhatsApp conversations and media (such as videos and images) to avoid accidental personal data loss. The process is fairly simple and won’t take long.
Now it is safe to connect your Android smartphone to your computer. A USB data cable is required to establish this connection.
Thanks to the advancement in Technology. You don’t have to sit in front of your computer screen evaluating and comparing the contents of each file. With a simple duplicate search, you can get a comprehensive list of all duplicate files along with basic details such as name, path, size and type.
1. Download Clone Files Checker, a popular duplicate search utility
2. Install and run the program.
3. Make sure that the Scan Mode is set to File Search.
4. Click on the Add button under Include to Scan.
5. Add the following directories one by one:
(x:\ denotes the drive letter of your smartphone storage. Replace it with the appropriate drive letter.)
For WhatsApp:
For WhatsApp Business:
6. Select the Custom Scan option, and check the Images and Videos options.
7. You’re all set to go. Click on Start Search, and the program will start finding duplicate files.
Using this option, you can evaluate the results yourself and decide which files to delete/ move, and which ones to retain. Moreover, you can play music to preview file contents without needing to separately open these on your music/ video player.
Click on Select Duplicates, and choose one of the following criterias:
Once you’re done selecting your files, click on Select Action, and choose what you would like to do with your duplicates.
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