I dumped someone's portable hardrive with music on my computer, problem is somehow I got some duplicates because I had dumped it last year and I guess I clicked something wrong that allowed it to put 2 copies of some of the same files.



is there a way to clean up a drive of duplicate files or do I have to actually go in and find them all one at a time?



They are in folders but some of the folders are obviously updated with more then the last time so I cant just wipe out whole folders

 

arent computers fun!

 

What happens if you sort them by date? Then you can maybe highlight and delete all the ones you put on before?

 

That happened to me one time





I spent about 10 minutes going one by one before reevaluating how much I needed all that crap in the first place

 

it should have named them something like (1) or copy filename



do a search for copy and delete all the files that come up, or wutever nomenclature they share in common. select all, delete.

 

problem is they were on his drive in a folder called MP3 then sub divided from there, now I have 2 of each folder but some of them are obviously updated.

 

if they have the same filename, control x, then make a new folder control v.



Do it again with the other folder, select replace.



if they have different filenames, then i would assume it gave them something in common in the nomenclature..... ie (copy of) if thats the case, do a search and delete all the files with "copy" in the title.



From your last post i am guessing the first one applies?

 

if the new folder has all that the old one did plus more just delete the old one?

 

I cant do it like that, some of the files were moved to different folders



I have just been slowly going through them and getting rid of a whole bunch at a time

 

go to downloads.com and get system mechanic 5. It has a program on it that searches for duplicate files and unused ones.