Find Duplicate Files Adobe Bridge

If you’re a creative media professional, search your computer for duplicate Adobe Bridge files and you’ll find yourself bombarded with tons of those. This tutorial shows you how to recover several GBs and organize your files.

The job might seem alot technical and difficult to you, however, this can be done easily by Clone Files Checker. This software program is designed to scan the locations you specify (including select cloud drives) and weed out the duplicates in a safe and objective manner.

 

     

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Organize & Delete Duplicates

First organize your duplicate image files and rename them at once. This sorts file names according to the date format we’ll be going to specify in a textbox. Here are the steps to place files next to another as per the date of creation.

  1. Double-click Adobe Bridge desktop icon.
  2. Select the folder in left panel to check for duplicates.
  3. Click Edit menu, choose Select All.
  4. Click Tools | Batch Rename.
  5. Choose “Date/Time” option under New Filename frame.
  6. Specify a date in MMDDYYYY format. Use the drop down box.
  7. Choose “Date/Time”, “HHMMSS” underneath that option.
  8. In New Filename Rename textbox, choose Metadata.
  9. In the right side drop down box, choose “Resolution”
  10. Click the Rename button.

Displaying Lower Resolution Images

Following is the procedure to display all those duplicate images that are of lower resolution than the original image file. Use the Find dialog box as follows:

  1. Click Edit | Find.
  2. Type “(1)” in “Contains” textbox.
  3. Click Find.
  4. Now that you’ve all duplicate images list on your screen. Click Edit | Select All.
  5. Right-click one of the selected images, choose the Move to Trash option from the context menu.

Use a Duplicate Cleaner

The above methods can still leave many duplicate files especially those not stored in directories other than default folders. Follow the steps given below to search all partitions of your hard drive for duplicate Adobe Bridge files:

  1. Download and install Clone Files Checker.
  2. Add new folders to scan. [Use left side list box]
  3. Set search options. Use full scan or custom scan, whichever you prefer.
  4. Start the scan. Choose Quick-Fix to automatically take action on all duplicates found; or Review & Fix to manually choose files to take action.

With Clone Files Checker you don’t have to worry about losing important files. You can recover deleted files with the help of Backup & Restore feature.

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