Windows 10: EEEK! thousands of duplicate files with ._ prefix

Hello everyone,

I opened up a folder today to grab a file and there are thousands of duplicate files with a " ._ " prefix scattered throughout my folders.

So, this is a new one to me.

Any insights would be a great thing.


Cheers.

:)

 

duplicate files appear with prefix~s

if we open a document or image ,after the restarting the computer duplicate files with prefix ~s(file name).

for example-for file name cv.docx ,a duplicate file with name ~scv.docx appears by which u cant open the file.

how to solve this.is this virus. I have mcafee security.

 

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.

 

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?