![]() ![]() Now I've actually created some files in this test folder here where if I look in the subfolder there is a duplicate of this file here so we have something we can test this with. This takes a multi-part command but it's not too difficult to understand. You can actually have the Terminal search for duplicate files. You can do it just right here in the Finder with a simple Search and it will spot anything, particularly anything that's pretty large.īut there's another way to do this using Terminal. But the advantage is you don't need any special skills to do this. Now this isn't a great method because you have to carefully inspect everything to make sure it's actually a duplicate and, of course, you're getting a list of all your files here. Then I can quickly go through these large files in the order they are in so I can Quit at some point if I think the files are getting too small for me to care about. Figure out if I've got a duplicate and get rid of the duplicate. So, I could easily go and look here at where each one is located. Like, for instance, here are a bunch of files that seem like they maybe duplicates because they are the same size and you can see they are similar names. Now I can Sort By Size and anything that is exactly the same size will appear right next to the same file. If you don't see Size up here at the top you can Control Click and select Size here. I'm going to also want to search for just for the folder I'm in, so Documents. So now I'm only going to get files like that. So I'm going to look for file size and then say, is greater than and set it to something like oh maybe greater than 1MB. I want to see if there is anything big out there that I can get rid of. I'm not going to care about the tiny little files that may be identical. So I'm going to do Command F to do a search and then I'm going to search for Other and look for Size because I want to only search for large files here. ![]() I want to look for duplicates in the Documents folder. So here I am in my Documents folder and that's where I want to start the Search. Well, a simple way to do it in the Finder is to simply do a Search. But let's say you want to review what you've got now to see if there is a duplicate there. Of course if you do find this is a problem that happens to you often you going to want to make sure you figure out what behavior you're doing that leads to the duplicate file so it doesn't become a problem. After all we may occasionally make a mistake and create a duplicate file somewhere and then you've got two copies of the same file taking up a lot of space. So I'm often asked how can you find duplicate files on your Mac. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 1000 supporters. Let me show you two ways to find duplicate files on your Mac. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. ![]() Check out 2 Ways To Find Duplicate Files On a Mac at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. ![]()
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