Jeff Fehring wants a way to find and eliminate duplicate songs in his large music collection. There are plenty of good programs for finding duplicate files–based on file name, size, and checksums–but ...

Some files on a Linux system can appear in more than one location. Follow these instructions to find and identify these "identical twins" and learn why hard links can be so advantageous. Identifying ...

Microsoft Excel helps you find duplicate values and identifies these cells with a color marker on your worksheet. This formatting lets you avoid the tedious task of manually scrolling through a large ...

Windows 8's built-in search function is pretty good at finding individual files and all the other files that share the same name. However, it does not do a good job of clearly flagging identical files ...

When you're working with a spreadsheet, duplicate data can sometimes make its way in and cause all sorts of problems. In this how-to, we demonstrate two methods of using Microsoft Excel for ...

Dissy is a free disk space analyzer and visualizer tool for Windows PC that lets you find, remove duplicate files, and manage storage. It is an all-in-one application that helps you in different ...

Instead of finding all potentially similar songs, you can find multiples of identical recordings to help clean up your library. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...