On the app, I click on the red - icon, and to my surprise, all four folders are removed.When I saw that Cisdem released Duplicate Finder 3.6, it caught my eye.
Review: Cisdem Duplicatefinder 3 Mac Has BeenI have to admit it; my Mac has been stuffed with duplicate items (identical photos, redundant backups, etc.) ever since I started to use the machine to sync files on iPhone and iPad. Within a few clicks, you could free up gigabytes of disk space. However, it is not for all Mac users, especially those of you who have a new Mac or external drive, and you dont backuptransfer files heavily. But if your Mac (or external drive) is running out of storage space, Cisdem Duplicate Finder is as good as it claims to deal with duplicate files and I cant recommend it enough. Review: Cisdem Duplicatefinder 3 Software Didnt ReportMalwarebytes Antivirus software didnt report any issues once I ran a thorough scan of my Mac after installing the Cisdem app. After scanning a folder to find duplicate files, Cisdem Duplicate Finder removes the files to Trash upon your request. That means, if you realize you made a wrong action, you can always undo it by checking Mac Trash and pulling those files back. Launch the app and youll see its main screen like this (see below). The big blue arrow down icon in the middle means you can drag and drop any folders to scan. Alternatively, you can click the button on the left to do the same. Once you select folders that might include duplicate files, the blue Scan button on the right becomes clickable. Im here to break down the features into two scenarios one is to test its capability to locate duplicates on my Mac hard drive (SSD-based), the other is to that on an external storage device (Lexar flash drive). In a few minutes, it scanned 49916 files, found 15987 duplicates totaling 4.56 GB that means 30 of files in Documents folder are duplicates. I thus copied a batch of documents and images from my Mac and saved them to the Lexar USB drive. The result 747 files scanned, 626 duplicates with 94.1 MB in size found. Just select a file, and itll show you how many duplicates it has. ![]() This is critical because you may not want to remove some duplicates as they serve as additional backups that are meant to keep. Because when I hit the Delete button to erase duplicates on my Lexar drive, the files were removed immediately without going to Trash. Unlike external drives, when you delete duplicates on your Mac, those files will be sent to Trash by default (unless you change the Removal Method in Preferences, see below for more). To fully claim the storage they occupy, youll have to take one more step i.e. Trash. Its a bit tricky because Cisdem does not give users any hints. By default, the app scans folders by file content and removes found duplicates to Trash. For example, if you only want to find duplicate files that are larger than 50 MB, you then move the bar from 0 KB to 50.00 MB. Likewise, if you have some backup files in.zip folders, click the sign and add the archive file type into the filter box. For example, when I select four folders on my Mac to scan (see the screenshot below), and later I decide only to scan two folders meaning I need to remove the other two.
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