Find and remove duplicate files in windows 10 without installing software
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
- In this video, I'll show you how you can find and remove duplicate files using a lightweight freeware called SearchMyFiles. This freeware runs without having to download anything to your computer. You can even keep it in your USB thumb drive and run the program from there.
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Simple but very effective utility. The last duplicate file finder I used only found duplicate names. This one does it all. Well presented and easy to follow instructions.
I can't thank you enough. You saved me so many hours of work with a folder of 15000 images that need sorting.
It took me a few minutes with your help.
this has been extremely helpful and the app interface itself is very good and useful. I can't thank you enough for this video, it has saved me hours of manual work and saved my computer from installing malware and stuff that doesn't work.
everyone should really check this out
Glad the video helped Venkat! Thanks for watching!
This video came in handy at the time where I am left heaps and heaps of duplicate files piled on my laptop. This saved tons of time for me. Thank you Andy
This program is going to be super helpful in getting back some hard drive space.
I have duplicate files over multiple drives and I need the space.
Thank you so much Andy. You're one cool guy 😎
This was great!!! Thanks!!!! so many other duplicate file apps were really confusing, and I'm too busy to do hours of tutorials for every app I need to use. This was perfect, and your tutorial approach outstanding, easy to follow from beginning to end. Thanks again!!!
Thanks a lot, Andy. I cannot tell you how long I have been searching for a tool like this!
Andy, Thank you for the great info! Especially the info about the OneDrive. That will help me with my cleanup efforts! You rock man!
Hi Leif - Glad you found the video helpful. Thanks for the feedback!
Thanks for the easy explanation and demonstration. I have gotten to the point of breaking down the duplicates into their groups, but have been cautious to delete. So, I wanted to be safe because I'm working with an external hard drive with 32,000 files, and more than just duplicates. Most are mp3s with some having up to 8 copies. Just want to confirm my next action with the expert. Thanks for your time and help
Aw, man. Thanks, sir. Exactly what I was looking for. And the old school site/way, sometimes simple is better.
This is incredibly useful. I am rationalising much of my storage right now and I have started with picture files. Very fast results.
The interface gets the job done!! I'll take a look at at. Thanks, Andy.
Wow! I had over 2,000 images to go through on my backup drive and you made things so much easier! Thank you.
An amazing tool to keep organised and keep a clean hard drive!
Very well explained and presented, thank you Andy!
Thank you so much Andy! The App is good, but the way you explained how it works is fantastic. Methodical, logical explanations, just really clear and concise. I will follow you for sure, just so I can learn things. Thanks.
Thanks Mel!
Thank you Andy for this app. It is an awesome tool and I am already starting to unravel daunting task of finding multiple duplicates and organizing my photos that I had put off for a long long time. THANK YOU!!!!!
You're welcome. Glad you found the video helpful!
Hey, I just cleand up every single duplicate file on my computer following your instructions. Worked like magic. No issues. Guys, just watch out when down loading the software. Make sure to follow Andy's down load instructions carefully in the beginning because I had a whole bunch of ther other companies offering download link of this software. Don't go for that. Another tip, if you have very large folders, mine were over 900 gb, then the searchmyfiles search at times seems like it is completed but keep an eye on the percentage calculator on the bottom left of your screen. Sometimes it stops but then picks up. Amazing software. I cleaned up roughly about 45 gb of duplicate files within an hour, going through all my folders. And I had no issues with the interface. It was easy and got the job done!!! Great video!! Thank you!!!
Andy, Thank you so much for providing the precious information. You rocks man!!!!!
Thanks Shekhar!
Although this video can be called misleading because a download is involved, however, the program works as described and you can do a lot of work so quickly. So thank you and thumbs up
Very helpful utility. Thanks. This is exactly what I was looking for.
Best ever explanation I've found online. Got a horrible task done very quickly - more than 4500 duplicate files deleted! Thank you!
Thank you Elizabeth! Glad the video helped!
Amazing video. I'm a dj and over the years I get tons of music. I have multiples of almost everything that just takes up space on my hard drive so this helped me a lot. Thank you from 2430 Entertainment.
This is exactly what I needed, for the present. Thank you so much. I found other comparison tools, but they are difficult to understand and often will not delete. Big fan. I subscribed. Woo Hoo.
Thanks Andy Park. I foolishly used an old backup method (remember Sync Toy?) to back up almost 2 TB of photos years ago. Add that to my standard backup and my backup drive was loaded with a TON of unnecessary files. I've put off deleting them because I was afraid to lose precious photos.....It took a little while but I finally got it done thanks to your video!
Thanks so much for this clear explanation. I was able to use this perfectly with your excellent presentation.
Thank you for this, Andy. Big help! Best to you.
For anyone who was struggling to highlight just a selected amount of folders hold shift down all the way to the amount of folders you want to delete
Thank you , I was struggling with highlighting 😅😊
Thanks so much, man!. I was struggling to know how to highlight but couldn't. You saved me
Yo you're more of the life saver. I was almost giving up😅. Thanks for this
Bro u really a gem 💎
Worked wonderfully. I appreciated the simple program vs. fluff. Consolidating laptop and pc, I found many duplicates. I subscribed and planned to watch more of your videos. Thank you for clear information.
Thank you Rachel!
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! This video was so helpful in every way ❤
After 3 years this video is still helpful. Thank you so much! I 😊
OMG, don't know why my computer is making so many duplicates but you saved the day. I've been looking for months and this is the only thing that worked. TY so much!
Andy for nicely explaining this video. You made it so informative.
Much love dude. You saved me hours. Thanks.
Thanks! Glad you found the video useful.
You are a life saver. Thanks for the great tutorial bro. I am subscribing now!
Appreciate the feedback. Thanks for the sub!
Thank you so much for this video! I was such a big help.
Thank you for the comment. Appreciate it!
Thank you so much for this video. This just makes my day and can't wait to see the results and get some cleanup work done.
This is really helpful.
I must say that this is just the only one that has ever worked perfectly for me.
Joseph, from Nigeria.
I spent whole 1 day finding, installing running useless utilities which can find and remove duplicate files from my pc. You are a life saver bro. Best one I found cos of ur video. And Thanks a lot for ending my search for the same. Great Video and utility shared. Million thanks buddy.
Thanks Mandar. Glad the video was helpful. Happy New Year!
@@AndyPark365 Hpaay new year to you to buddy.
THANK YOU SO MUCH AYY without this video idk wat i wouldve done
Thank you. Awesome tool! Question: Is there a way to have it only identify duplicates between devices or maybe 2 base folders. For example i may have many dups on C:(and all subdirs) and many dups on D:(and all subdirs) but I only want to list the dups that are the same on both C: and D:. ie if C:(all subdirs) had 2 identical files but that file doesn't appear anywhere on D:, I don't want to see it. Thanks.
I have tons of duplicate pictures because I have combined memory from different sources and I am looking for a way to sort things out.
You seem to explain things that even someone like me who is not very computer savvy could probably follow. Most of the people I found explaining things go quickly way over my head. I haven't tried this yet but I certainly will and I just wanted to thank you for clear explications.
Thank you. Not sure if you gave it a go. Please feel free to drop a comment if you have questions.
@@AndyPark365Hi Andy Paul here again.
Yes I put this on my mini computer and plugged my external hard disc in which has all the pictures on it. It looks very complicated but I just did a basic search in my pictures file where I had hundreds of gigabytes of pictures! 😂 I kept telling myself I would go back and remove double files and things but of course I kept adding pictures and never deleting Andy came to the point where I was about to give up until I found your explanation. I had tried supposedly free software which seemed to be working until you wanted to eliminate everything it found after running for hours and then you had to pay to actually eliminate them! 😠😠
I let this software run for hours too and it found many hundreds of gigabytes of doubles. I spent several hours looking at what it found and eliminating the many copies manually. After all of that time I hadn't found a single error so I decided to trust the software and I let it automatically deal with the rest. There is no way to be absolutely sure it didn't eliminate anything I might have wanted to save but it did eliminate hundreds of gigabytes of pictures that were doubles.
I wish you lived nearby in Normandy! I often have frustrating problems when it comes to computers. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping me with this situation.
Thank you very much for your generosity in sharing this helpful tool that has helped me to get rid of the duplicated files were clogging my laptop. Simple and efficient tool. All the best!
Thank you Cris! Glad to hear the video was helpful.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I have been struggling to organize over 6000 music titles, some of them quadruplicated by four different file types, and THOSE duplicated between cloud and hard drive. I might finally get efficient control over my collection. Bless you!
I thank you so much sir before even testing the tool. This is super amazing and that what I really was looking for, you have helped us to save lots of efforts and money. Thanks...
Excellent and easy to use, Thank you so much for creating this type of tool.
Thank you, Andy. You're a big help.
Thank you Elle!
very good video, well explained and very thorough. Thumbs up for sure. Thanks!
Very well explained, thank you very much!
Thank you for watching!
This was perfect, you are amazing! Thank you so much!
You're so welcome! Thanks for watching Miss Kelly!
Outstanding presentation and attention to details. Thanks very much.
Thanks for the kind feedback Bill!
My man .... Subscribed ...you're doing things bro!
Best thing since sliced bread! I can not thank you enough! I've been looking for just this thing.
got my job done in minutes! thanks andy!:)
Fantastic! Good to hear. Thanks Moses!
Thanks dude u rock!!! Very well explained .U gained a sub.More power to ur channel
Thanks Dâtu. Appreciate the support!
Just what the doc ordered, love it, simple and clean not complicated to use, and it works. I will like to see a delete all in one shot not keeping anything since I know all the dup files im deleting that I don't want. but this is a powerful software for real. if your the man behind this software, big thanks man. my mistake it actually delete everything, wow. yes. exellent
Thanks for watching. I have no affiliation with the software, but I found it helpful so simply sharing with all of you.
Thank you, was actually searching for a way to delete duplicate Photos, but need to do this too!
Great video. And great tip, thank you very very much for this. Saved me quite a lot of time.
Thank you so much for your clear Explanation!
You saved me a lot of time.thank you so much!!
Subscribed immediately. Thanks a lot Andy
Thanks Terny!
I just subscribed to your channel because so far your explanation has been the clearest on doing what I need today and I'm sure your assistance in the future will be very helpful. I have one question - after going through your video, I discover I have more duplicates in my one drive files (no doubt) than on my computer, and now get a yellow ! in my cloud icon asking me if I'm sure I want to delete the 1094 duplicates - how can I be sure it's ok to let them go? or do you recommend that I go through them one by one to be sure? TIA for your assistance.
Hi ...Great question! I do a complete copy and paste to new Folder. May do this with a couple of new folders. Repeat a few times until I have confidence with files mgt. Hope this helps.
I wanted to import 1 image from a video to desktop... instead it copied the same image 17.000 times to my desktop causing it to crash, thank you for your help!
Thank you SO much! After deleting files within the SearchMyFiles program, do you 'Save the Configuration' or Save in any other way, or just exit the app?
I dont't normally comment on CZcams Videos but this was really helpful. Thanks a Ton!
Glad you found it helpful Joel. And thanks for the comment! 😀
Much needed. Thanks!!!! Really appreciate it.
Glad you found it helpful Vijay!
thanks bro.. you made my day ... i love the way you talk and explain ... million of thanks.
Thanks. Appreciate the feedback!
Top video with introduction to a top tool. was very helpful. thanks a lot!!!!
I don't know After 2 years I found this channel Huge THANKs for this video Mister Andy I had problem I save Images Movies in my computer with several name and my laptop keeps freezing But This channel Helped me saved me from problem 💖💖💖💖
Thank you my man, you are my hero of today.
SO SO helpful for us less computer savvy folks. thank you
Glad you found the video helpful Kim!
Excellent software and instructor. Thank you so much.
Great utility! Thanks Andy.
Andy, spot on, exactly what I was after thank you
Glad it helped. Thanks for watching Steven!
Thanks for this, sir. :) You helps me a lot.
Glad to hear that the video helped Tifanny!
OMG, OMG, OMG, this is sooooooo helpful. I am cleaning up my HP desktop I purchased in 2014 and have never done any type of backup. I not very computer savvy, but trying to start my new year off better! So I have work documents mixed in with my personal stuff and I nervous about a "computer crash", so I have a Maxtor external harddrive I purchased in 2009 that has 750 mg and I am hoping this should hold all my personal files. I have work laptop and I am taking all the work stuff off of my desktop and can start fresh. I am not sure if I can upgrade my desktop for Windows 11, but even if I can't I love this HP Envy Desktop computer, the screen is 19" and is very clear and easy for me to work with, so I am going to keep it, but I want to keep it maintained, which I haven't done a good job of it, but it's 2022 and a NEW DAY! I am reinventing the working model of my self! Lol! I forgot to say THANK YOU!
Haha Theresa. Thanks for watching, and good luck with the PC maintenance/clean up.
Great explanation! Thanks for the useful recommendation
thanks a lot, this worked perfectly! exactly what I was looking for!
Thank you very much Andy. Once I run the application, it means that I can delete all the files found.? With other applications you have to choose between them.
Thanks Mr Park... Awesome video and great help...
Excellent video! Thank you!
Thanks for taking the time to make this video
Thank you so much!!! you are so easy to understand.
You are a lifesaver, thank you so much.
Glad it helped!
You are doing a great job man
Thanks for the information
Thanks. Appreciate it!
Thank you! This tool makes the clean up of duplicates a breeze. As for pretty, I prefer practical that works reliably, which this application does.
Thank you soo much , this is very helpful..
This program is going to be super helpful in getting back some hard drive space.
I have duplicate files over multiple drives and I need the space.
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Simply Great Solution, Many Many Thanks for suggesting such a great solution.
Thanks Varun!
Thank you for the video!
Please, could you describe how to exclude from searching all the files with a specific extension?
Thank you very much , I was looking for this long time how to get ride of duplicate files
Glad this video was helpful. Thank you for watching.
Very effective! Thank you!
Hugely helpful, thank you
Genuinely helpful TY
yo man , thanks for the video. I glad to find this
Glad I could help. Thanks Christopher!
This is great. Thanks for sharing!
My pleasure Samadori!
very useful content. thanks for posting. liked and subbed! :)
If this works on my 18gb music folder im in love. Thank for The Tech Tip
Wow that was easy!!! Thank you
Hi Andy I really enjoyed the video, one small query when I get to the part of deleting your 1, 2, 3's etc are grouped together, but mine all see to stay Numerically as in 1234 depending how many have the same size of file, so I can't hi- light them and delete them in one go so end up deleting one at a time or doing them in blocks, hope this makes sense ?? I must be missing something but have watched a few times now..., Cheers Andy
Easy, lightweight, no spam. Perfect.