How to find and delete Duplicate files in Mac OS X

To keep your Mac running effortlessly, you should regularly check your Mac drive in order to find and delete the unnecessary duplicate files, that are gathered in drive, with the passage of time. So, the first thing you need to do is searching their location in your Mac drive.

Before going further, we should first know that how these files are created and stored in our machine. During downloading files from Internet, modification of documents, files or images can also be the reason of their creation. Hence this causes accumulation of duplicate files and disperse over your Mac drive.

Bad thing about accumulation of these files is that, they become the source of wastage of memory space of your Mac disk.

Although in today's scenario there is no problem of memory shortage,because most of the people are using external drives for storing their large amount of vital data. But still you need to delete these files for increasing indexing and thus it speedup your Mac and enhances its performance.

By deleting these duplicate files you can overcome the issue of synchronization of data as well as it allows you to make use of wasted free space.

So, its important to find and remove these duplicate files that your Mac applications. So, there are number of ways for searching and deleting these duplicate files. If you have Mac book pro, it have an feature for locating duplicate files called ”spotlight”.

How to use Spotlight to search duplicates:

1.Click spotlight icon in menu bar.

2.Type the filename in the search field and then click “Show all”

3.Scroll down the list of results, and it will show you all the results that match your query.

But once when one of my friends told me that after upgrading to Mac OS X 10.7 he didn't found this spotlight enabled. I don't know, what was the reason behind that, but after too many hits and trials we fixed the problem. But, all in vain since, it takes too long to scan the drive and enlist all duplicate things in Mac.

So there are many other excellent and easy ways to do it:

1.Using Third party Application: Mac also has some free application while few with small fee to find and remove duplicate files. But be careful before using such application that may have malware as often these Mac application are used from Internet.

2.Manually by Finder:

Duplicate files can be found by using Finder of Mac. Although the process is slow as you have to decide manually which files you want to keep or which to delete.

In order to use it, Open a new Finder Window and from the search field enter the wild card asterisk symbol. Make sure that columns size and kind are displayed.

3.Deleting from i Tunes: Sometimes these duplicate files are stored in i Tunes, Fortunately you can remove such duplicate songs stored in it.

As i Tunes provides the ability to check for duplicate files, as follows:

1. Just make sure you’ve highlighted the appropriate item in your i Tunes library (such as Music, Movies,etc)
2. Go to the File menu, click Display Duplicates
   

Any duplicate items found will be displayed in i Tunes window, allowing you to simply delete them as normal.

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