Many of us are in the habit of copying all of our files to our backup hard disk drives. We come home after taking some pictures with our digital camera and copy the pictures to the hard drive. We download files related to the annual income tax payment and we just copy them to the hard drive. We keep doing it until one day we find that the hard disk drive is full.
But the hard drive might be full because of duplicate or even triplicate files. This happens when we forgetfully copy several files more than once in more than one folders. In order to find and remove such duplicate files we can use a software called PassFab Duplicate File Deleter. It is a Windows application to find duplicate files and remove but one of these. It can find exact identical files as well as similar files.
Duplicate File Deleter is very easy to use. We can simple drag-n-drop a folder on its big window. This is the folder that we wish to scan for duplicate files. We can also drag-n-drop an entire drive or volume on its window. In addition to the local folders, we can also choose a Google Drive account for scanning.
After we add the folder to be scanned, we have to choose whether we wish to scan for duplicate files or similar images. Similar images are the images which visually appear to be same but are different dimensions, orientation, file formats, or file sizes. For example, the same image saved as JPG and also as BMP format will be called a set of similar images.
When it has found all the duplicate files or the similar images, we can select which ones are to be deleted. For the media files, we can also see a “preview” of the selected files. After making a selection, we can click on the “Remove” button to remove the files.
PassFab Duplicate File Deleter is offered for personal use for free in a trial version. In this trial/free version, we can remove only 15 files maximum after which the removal feature stops working.
You can download PassFab Duplicate File Deleter from https://www.passfab.com/products/duplicate-file-deleter.html.