Sunday, April 4, 2010

Removing Duplicate Files

Want to save some disk space? How about removing all duplicate copies of your files? Fortunately, there are free tools to help you do this. I used DoubleKiller after reading the LifeHacker post: http://lifehacker.com/330037/top-10-free-windows-file-wranglers.
  • Found many data files that were duplicates
  • Found many copies of VIRSCAN*.dat files from Symantec AntiVirus. Deleted all the ones in *.tmp folders (actually, moved them to a holding location). No issues so far.
  • If you have multiple copies of Matlab installed, I would recommend removing those from the search path

Check out WinDirStat from the that LifeHacker post too.

1 comment:

  1. Here is another program: Directory Report
    It is very fast in scanning large drives
    http://www.file-utilities.com

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