Windows 10: duplicate files on windows user files

Discus and support duplicate files on windows user files in Windows 10 Network and Sharing to solve the problem; Ran duplicate file finder on my boot drive and came up with 217 occurances of a file name: 00003 in an equal number of folders under... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Network and Sharing' started by Rick Lester, Apr 2, 2025.

  1. RICK LESTER
    Rick Lester Win User

    duplicate files on windows user files


    Ran duplicate file finder on my boot drive and came up with 217 occurances of a file name: 00003 in an equal number of folders under appdata\local\*.... Can these be deleted? They are all 173120bytes in size

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    Rick Lester, Apr 2, 2025
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  2. FRICK
    Frick Win User

    Finding duplicate files

    Hey hey,

    During the years the backups have just accumulated in random places, essentially, and I would like to clean up. Is there a program that can search for duplicate files? And by that I mean identical files. I tried dupeGuru, but that somehow found ... all files to be identical I guess? Like how a bunch of jpg's with different names, sizes and locations being marked 100% identical, or how a bunch of xls-files with completely different everything also were 100% matches with each other. I don't need any fancy functions, just a list of the files that share the name and filesize and created/last write dates.
     
    Frick, Apr 2, 2025
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  3. REJZOR
    RejZoR Win User
    Finding duplicate files

    For images, I love DupDetector
    https://www.keronsoft.com/dupdetector.html

    It's cool and special because it matches images and photos by content (like Google can search for similar images) and not filename or date. You can even adjust the sensitivity. It'll find identical images across different file formats as well as different resolutions/sizes. So you can weed out low resolution duplicates of higher res images or simply actually the same duplicate images.
     
    RejZoR, Apr 2, 2025
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  4. STEVEWAHLSTROM
    SteveWahlstrom Win User

    duplicate files on windows user files

    How to remove duplicate files in Windows 10.

    Thank you for the suggestion. I need to see a list of duplicate files and select those I want to eliminate. Does the program you suggested compare file content or do they simply point out duplicate
    file names?
     
    SteveWahlstrom, Apr 2, 2025
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