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Best Duplicate finding software ?

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mrrawuk

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I have about 1.5tb of combined files of photos/docs/music and general stuff on 2x USB drives.
What is the best duplicate software? Google had me going aroubd in circles.

I tried Dupeguru, but it seems to get stuck after 20 mins.
CC cleaner was utter garbage and very hard to remove. It also took 12 hours to do NADDA 🙂

Any tried and tested that are GUI as I'm not a command line type of guy.
Paid or free apps. If it works i don't mind paying.
Thanks.
 
I have used several over the years, but none recently however I see in the App Store that Duplicate File Finder, and Gemini 2 are still rate very high.
 
mmkerc said:
I have used several over the years, but none recently however I see in the App Store that Duplicate File Finder, and Gemini 2 are still rate very high.
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I take the reviews with a pinch of salt. Looking for input from real users . Yes like you all the stuff I knew before is from 2011 to 2015.
 
mrrawuk said:
I take the reviews with a pinch of salt. Looking for input from real users . Yes like you all the stuff I knew before is from 2011 to 2015.
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To be clear I used both Duplicate file finder, and Gemini 2 in around 2019-2020 when I updated my systems. Both did the job very well. Especially given my main system had a total of 6 drives with ~16 TB of data.
 
mmkerc said:
To be clear I used both Duplicate file finder, and Gemini 2 in around 2019-2020 when I updated my systems. Both did the job very well. Especially given my main system had a total of 6 drives with ~16 TB of data.
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Thanks for clarifying that, most helpful .
 
I used Duplicate file finder, and it was not too bad, but I had to run it multiple times for a 1.5tb data drive. It missed files numerous times hence I had to re run it.

I have now managed to get rid of multiple duplicates though.
Thanks to all for their input.
 
Does Duplicate file finder work for photos too. The duplicate photo finder in Sonoma is not working. I was hoping to get rid of many un-needed photos. Photo sweeper was suggested.
 
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