The only thing that comes to our mind when we receive a low disk space message is to clean the drive. While disk cleanup is an effective way to reclaim hard disk space by clearing cache and temporary files, if you want to free up more space then deleting duplicate files will also help you to reclaim significant disk space.
Obviously you can’t imagine spending your whole weekend manually searching and removing duplicate files on your computer. To do this task automatically, one of the best available options is NoDupe.
What is NoDupe?
NoDupe is a free tool to find and remove duplicate files on your computer efficiently and effectively. While one may intentionally keep duplicate files in different locations at times for better organization, usually most of the duplicate files in the system are created during copy, paste and download operations and their removal to reclaim space becomes a necessity.
Note: NoDupe only works with Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit Operating Systems.
How to find duplicate files
To start looking for duplicate files, install and launch NoDupe. On the main user interface of the program, you will see a list of all the logical drives that you have on your hard disk along with any removable media. Select the folders from the tree view that you want to check for duplicate files. No need to select all the folders on your hard disk, just select the folders that you interact with more often.
If you only want to scan a specific file type such as music, video, or photos, you can do so by selecting custom in the Search Type section. There are also some advanced settings available that I recommend you leave as is for now.
So all set up? Hit the search button and wait for NoDupe to bring up the results. The scan will take some time depending on the size of your folder. When the scan is finished, NoDupe will return you a list of duplicate files, if any, found on your system. You can mark files manually or use the automatic highlighter if manually selecting each file is out of scope.
All you need to do now is hit the delete button. As a result, all duplicate files will be removed from your hard disk thus clearing up unnecessary occupied space.
Advantages of NoDupe
Here are some nice features of this tool.
Compare little by little
NoDupe scans for duplicate files by comparing bit by bit and not by filename, size or tag. Therefore, the possibility of any errors is almost negligible.
Protect system files
The program hides system files and folders from users to protect important system related information.
My judgment
I have only two words to describe this app – simply amazing. It’s fast, light on resources, and 100% accurate. I was able to recover a significant amount of space on my hard disk, which I have to admit I never knew I lost due to duplicate files. Don’t forget to run this tool regularly, whenever you perform scheduled PC maintenance.
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