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Bonibelle · « **on:** November 15, 2009, 10:21:05 pm »

I know there are lots of computer experts on here..so I am asking for help.. $:-\$
I have tons of pictures on my hard drive and somehow they have been duplicated so many times that I think they are slowing down my computer and it is probably going to crash!!
Is there a way to remove duplicates across the entire hard drive? For some reason, itunes has also duplicated itself many times.

My computer crashed a while back and maybe some of the duplicates were the result of me trying to restore things from on-line storage as well as an external hard drive.

But now I want to have ONLY one copy of each picture and each song..is there a software program that can do that or do I have to spend HOURS deleting hundreds of pictures?

Thanks,
Boni

Hot Tub Forum · « **on:** November 15, 2009, 10:21:05 pm »

mattNY · « **Reply #1 on:** November 17, 2009, 12:16:57 am »

Wow, weird... I've seen duplicates before, but multiple duplicates? This is a new one on me

I did some looking, there's a free program that does this here: http://www.codeplex.com/DupliFinder

And a paid one ($26) that gets good reviews at download.com: http://download.cnet.com/Duplicate-Finder/3000-2250_4-10300084.html?tag=mncol

Bonibelle · « **Reply #2 on:** November 17, 2009, 08:26:36 am »

thanks so much...the thought of deleting all those pictures is just making me crazy. I think that some of the problem is because I have multiple photo programs AND when we upload pictures from the cameras of phones, we don't delete them ..so every time we add new pictures all the others copy too. I just realized that recently and changed the settings to only add the new pictures. This is just such a mess right now...

Thanks again!! I'll let you know how it works out

wmccall · « **Reply #3 on:** November 17, 2009, 11:18:23 am »

How full is your hard drive? Many of my customers confuse hard disk space with memory. You said, "pictures slowing down my computer". This is a common thing I hear. Pre XP computers, especially Windows 98 and ME did get notoriously slow when the hard drives filled to 95% or more of capacity. Today hard drives are so big and cheap that most of my customers never reach 20% full on their drives. XP does so much better of a job than the older operating systems that I stopped recommending customers defragment their hard drives more than once year.

Bonibelle · « **Reply #4 on:** November 17, 2009, 01:16:58 pm »

Bill I defrag about every 3 months..my hard drive is 32% free. I am removing Adobe Photoshop (it is a pain) and all the photos associated with it. Maybe that will help... I added RAM to this computer about a year ago and usually try to make my computers last 4 years (when the warranty runs out)... $:-\$

wmccall · « **Reply #5 on:** November 18, 2009, 09:22:58 am »

How much ram do you have?

Bonibelle · « **Reply #6 on:** November 18, 2009, 04:07:11 pm »

3 GB of ram

wmccall · « **Reply #7 on:** November 19, 2009, 03:44:33 pm »

Thats plenty, I'd be looking at spyware/adware issues or unneeded programs in startup. A lot of programs are what I call "rudeware" They put themselves into the startup folder or the startup section of your registry. You can try running a program called MSCONFIG and unselect some of the items in the start up group and see if that helps things run faster.

Hot Tub Forum · « **Reply #7 on:** November 19, 2009, 03:44:33 pm »

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