Documents and music can also become duplicated in various ways.ĭuplicates can take up significant drive space if you use a solid state drive (SSD) and many PCs are sold with 128 GB or 256 GB drives that are quickly filled. After numerous syncs, backups, edits, and transfers to new PCs or tablets, you can end up with multiple copies. The same is true with videos taken on mobile phones and digital cameras. It is easy to lose track images and how many copies there are. You might make copies of images for editing and end up with two or more, you might transfer photos from a digital camera, back them up, restore a backup, buy a new computer, restore to that and so on. The storage and services might then be synced with a folders on your PC, you plug in a digital camera or phone, and you could end up with more than one copy of images. With digital photography, multiple apps and services want to automatically upload every photo you take to online storage or a photo sharing service. Sometimes there are good reasons for having a duplicate of a file, but often it is accidental and duplicates can be created in various ways. Is it time time to sort out the mess of files and folders on the drive and delete the duplicates? They are more common than you might think and they can be Microsoft Office documents, photographs taken with your phone or digital camera, music, or other types of files.

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