Handling duplicates with Gemini, DupeGuru and NeoFinder

No prizes for guessing that I have dozens of duplicate files. It's actually more like hundreds. Since I consolidated my external drives, I see that I have the same file in multiple places. This came from running out of space on one drive, and copying the information to another. Problem is, I never went back and deleted the original. Or I download a series of tutorials, then moved them, couldn't find them, then downloaded the series again. Now I have both. And the usual problem of making a backup to a drive, then writing that information to BluRay, and forgetting to remove the other backup. Again, now I have two. Regardless of how I got here, I realize one duplicate finder is not sufficient to untangle the situation. I have Gemini, DupeGuru and NeoFinder working to find where everything went. Gemini is great for finding duplicates. If it says the file is the same, it's the same. It's removed over […]

More file management with Keyboard Maestro

The spring cleaning of my drives has begun and with it comes several more helpful commands set up within Keyboard Maestro. While you can buy utilities that perform these same actions, by using Keyboard Maestro you can configure exactly how they work and chain them all together into a very handy set of utilities. I used my previous applet to move a whole series of files and folders, now I'm using another to clean my drive of all sorts of useless and wasteful files. For example, I don't need readme.txt files of 1k. Or file_id.diz of 1k. Or empty directories. Or .nfo files. Or .url files. Just to name a few. The may not take up much space, but in reality, they do. They occupy the full block of hard drive space, even if they are only a few bytes in size. Why clutter up the drive? Why clutter up a duplicate manager tool? Why clutter up an index tool […]