I've often used a program called "Duplicate File Finder" by Rashid Hoda. It goes through the folders you check off (or your entire hard drive) and searches for duplicates based on the criteria you select. Once finished, you can delete the duplicates, keeping the originals. I've been pretty happy with it and it's free. You can google it to find several download sites.

When it's done, it gives you a list of each file and each duplicate file grouped together. You can go through and click on the ones you want to delete (or move to recycle bin or move to a folder of your choice), or just "select all duplicates", and it will keep the first one in the list and delete the rest.

You'll probably want to just let it run, as it takes a while to go through everything and do the comparisons, but it's a lot quicker than going through your files one at a time.

I've used it to remove the duplicates of the many free BIAB files I've downloaded over the years.

John

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