IT Professional

Albert Widjaja

Heinz Zimmermann

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Infrastructure admin

Ibrahim Kasabri

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thank &nbsp;you everyone. I appreciate all your suggestions and will try one and all.<br />
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Werner
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thank  you everyone. I appreciate all your suggestions and will try one and all.

Werner

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I need to clean up a number of hard drives that contain different back ups / downloads of files and folders. &nbsp;It's a mess. Is there a synchronizing program that will examine what files are duplicates so that I can clean it up? &nbsp;Hardly a tech question but it seems a common problem.
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I need to clean up a number of hard drives that contain different back ups / downloads of files and folders.  It's a mess. Is there a synchronizing program that will examine what files are duplicates so that I can clean it up?  Hardly a tech question but it seems a common problem.

The need to clean up duplicate files in backup hard drives

Storage devices include any device used for storing and retrieving digital information. Hard disk drives (HDDs) use one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. The primary competing technology for secondary storage is flash memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), but HDDs remain the dominant medium for secondary storage due to advantages in price per bit and per-device recording capacity. CD-RW (Compact Disc-ReWritable) is a digital optical disc storage format that allows information to be stored outside the mechanical HDD.

Storage Hardware

Default programs

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