Duplicate Picture Finder Windows 8.1/ 8

Both user and the application programs are responsible for loads of duplicate images on your PC. These files may sneak into your PC in several ways like when copying data from a friend’s USB Flash Drive or downloading images from the Internet.

Browser Downloads Images while Navigating Websites

Your browser may automatically download images from the Internet and store them in a particular directory- called as Internet Cache. When you visit the same website at a later time, the same image is again downloaded in the same directory with a different file name.

USB Flash Drives/ DVDs

Duplicate images may enter your PC while copying data from your friend’s USB Flash Drive/ DVDs. The media may already contain duplicate files, or during the file copying process you may unintentionally copy the files again and Windows may store them with random file names such as Image01.jpg, Image02.jpg and Image03.jpg. The same goes true when you’re downloading lots of wallpapers, free stuff from the Internet.

Adobe Photoshop, CorelDraw

If you’re a graphics designer or a working professional in the field of multimedia and digital images, you tend to use variety of image editing programs such as Adobe Photoshop, CorelDraw, Paint.net, and so on. While working on digital images the program automatically creates a backup file in app_data directory. This in turn eats up most of the disk space and you start encountering low disk space issue.

Concept of Duplicate Picture Finder

Duplicate Picture Finder searches your Windows 8.1/ 8 PC for identical copies of files. User can choose to automatically delete duplicate files, or select Review & Fix option to remove duplicates only after user approval.

Benefits of Duplicate Picture Finder for Windows 8.1/ 8

• A Duplicate Picture Finder prevents confusion arising out of duplicate images
• Re-organizes files and folders on your hard disk
• It takes no action without user approval
• Enables image preview
• No risk of accidentally deleting important file. Only duplicate copies are deleted.
• Creates backup before permanently deleting a file, in case you wish to restore it at a later time
• Other option includes moving file to Recycle Bin, or a specific folder
• Repairs low disk space issue
• Optimizes speed and performance of your PC

How does Duplicate Picture Finder for Windows 8.1/ 8 Works?

Clone Files Checker has a simple user interface. All you’ve to do is to specify the directories or drives in a listbox. These selected directories or drives will be included in the scan, whereas those added to other list will be excluded from the scan.

The next step is to customize your scan options. It includes file filters too. You may specify whether you want to scan only images or all sorts of files. The scan will be performed depending on the option you’ve selected.

Next, the scan results will appear on your screen. Specify whether you want the duplicates to be deleted automatically, or they should appear in a listbox so that you can review them again. The program facilitates exporting duplicate file records in a Notepad document.

There are three options. You can delete duplicate images permanently. As default a backup is automatically created. You can also move your files to the Recycle Bin, or to a specific folder on your computer.