OneDrive is a popular cloud store introduced by Microsoft as a direct competitor to Google Drive. The basic membership plan is free of charge, and paid versions contain some extra features that are particularly useful for advanced users, as well as huge organizations.
On the flip side, free versions only provide limited storage capacity; hence the user has to be meticulously careful in utilizing their storage quota. One of the ways file storage is filled up is due to the presence of duplicate files. This article demonstrates how to identify duplicate Zip files, and weed them out from OneDrive swiftly.
Solution
This guide makes use of Clone Files Checker for removing duplicate files. This application software provides with the functionality to scan local files as well as cloud data. Also, it performs the desired actions on the cloud without downloading a single file to the client side. The following steps explain how to put CFC to good use and remove all duplicate Zip files from OneDrive.
- First of all, download Clones Files Checker from the following location: https://www.clonefileschecker.com/
- Now install and launch it through its desktop shortcut.
- In the Clone Files Checker user interface, locate the Settings button and click it.
- In the Settings window, locate the Filter Settings tab and click it.
- Now go to the Archives section and remove all file types except .zip. This step is performed to ensure that only duplicate Zip files (and not other file types) will be looked for during the scan. As shown in the screenshot below, you can always restore the original settings by clicking on the Restore Default button.
Deleting all file types except zip - Head back to the main screen of CFC, click the Cloud Scan tab and then select the OneDrive tab.
- Click the Load Drive button and login to OneDrive by entering your Microsoft credentials. Clone Files Checker is a very secure application; hence using your OneDrive credentials doesn’t jeopardize the safety at all. However, if you still don’t want to enter your OneDrive credentials, you can sync the OneDrive data to your computer and scan the folder which contains the data from the System Scan tab.
- In the next step, you have to select the file type which needs to be searched for in the scan. Simply select Custom | Archives. Now click Start Search to initiate the scan.
Selecting Archives as the file type to be scanned for - Once the scan results are out, you will see a pop up detailing the Zip duplicates detected as well as the space being lost to them.
- Click the Select Duplicates button and choose an option of your choice.
Selecting the kind of duplicate Zip files that will be retained - Finally, click Select Action and choose between moving the duplicate Zip files to the Recycle bin or moving them to a folder of your choice. Either way, the process is absolutely accurate and is over within moments.
Raza Ali Kazmi works as an editor and technology content writer at Sorcim Technologies (Pvt) Ltd. He loves to pen down articles on a wide array of technology related topics and has also been diligently testing software solutions on Windows & Mac platforms. If you have any question about the content, you can message me or the company's support team.