You may have set of documents that may contain identical contents yet different names. You may not realize that considerable computer space is wasted by these duplicate documents.
Moreover, they may take a lot of your time in managing and organizing hard disk. Your computer may also become slower over a period of time. Are you wondering how can you delete them? Can you afford to take so many hours from your schedule to manually remove these identical files? I think, the answer would be a NO.
Perhaps you’ve copied your office documents into several devices such as external hard disk, USB drive or saved them in the cloud.
Your hard disk may contain same files with numerous names. The file names may also contain random numbers, such as, Document1.docx, Document2.docx, and so on. We generally don’t have much time to examine each available document, organize them in proper folders and decide where to keep them. By ignoring such simple document organization techniques we end up with bunch of duplicate documents.
Believe me, these documents occupy surprising amount of disk space. By cleaning them regularly you will not only save tens of GBs of disk space but also save time.
Larger the free space in your computer, faster will be your PC. It is thus a good idea to get rid of clone documents overloading your hard disk.
1. Always categorize your files into different folders and subfolders. You can categorize the documents in the following manner:
2. Make sure all folders are not cluttered with identical copies. Sort all the folder contents by their names and find & remove the duplicate files.
To sort the folder contents in name-wise manner, follow the steps given below:
3. Keep your personal documents and files in a partition other than the system drive. That means do not use the Windows installation drive (usually, drive C :\) to store your personal documents and files. Make sure only system files, program files and games are stored in the system drive.
4. Keep a separate backup folder to store the backup files of your files. This will differentiate the original files and the backup copies.
5. Keep your backup files in a compressed/ zipped file format. Make sure auto-update feature is also turned on while adding the files.
6. Use Clone Files Checker that can be downloaded from this website from the link given at right-side of the site. It will scan for duplicate documents and delete them effortlessly.
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