Duplicate File Finder

If any of you are like me, sometimes you make copies of files and directories and lose track of them. Before you know it, you have several copies of the same pictures or files on your hard drive. I have been using this nifty little tool for many years to help me find my duplicate files (usually pictures) and then it also allows me to "mark" them for deletion or to "clean" them off my hard drive. The tool is called MoreSpace. I've put a copy of it out in my shared folder on the box.net. Let me know if you want login access to that to retrieve it. The version I've got has a little banner that you need to wait for if you haven't registered it, but it still works fine after the banner goes away.

A sample output of this program is included above.

Jay

Where did all of my disk space go?

Have you ever wondered what is taking up all the space on your PC harddrive? I stumbled across a really slick FREE utility for Windows PC’s that will go through and find all of your files and then give you a visual display as to what and where the biggest files are and it allows you to more easily find the file HOGS and delete them, or at the very least know where your opportunities are for cleaning up your hard drive. I’ve included a screen capture of what the file output looks like in the picture above. I’ve used it and I think it’s pretty cool.

If you want to download it directly from the web you can go to windirstat.info and follow several clicks to download it.

Just run the program and let it go find the files, when it’s done, it will present a pretty picture like above. Then you can click on the big blocks you see and it will tell you what and where they are, then you can go up to the top half of the screen and right click to delete or otherwise manage your files. Let me know if you have problems trying to use it.

Have a nice day,
Jay