NOTE: You can choose which of these areas you’d like to search, depending on how thorough you would like the scan to be. Washing Machine can help you find and remove duplicate files in the following areas on your Mac: Click this, and you can get additional information about what each specific category scans for. When you click the Duplicates tab in the top left corner, you will be presented with a list of categories to scan. These categories are folders, archives, movies, documents, music and pictures. By hovering your arrow curser (mouse) over any slider button, you will now see a new information icon. Removing duplicate files is a good way to free up disk space. The Duplicates cycle helps you locate multiple copies of files and folders on your Mac. Washing Machine makes it easy to clean up these caches, freeing up disk space on your Mac and maybe deleting some private information you didn’t know was lying around. But who knows what information is stored in these caches. Many applications create local copies or caches of information on your Mac, so that it is available later for quick retrieval. Washing Machine makes it really easy to clear this stuff out by helping you find those duplicates, emptying the trash and clearing out downloads. Apple’s OS X makes it really easy to copy folders when you think you might be moving them and you can easily end up with sensitive information that you forget exists. Downloading files can create duplicates, there could be copies of files you may have accidentally created with an accidental drag and drop, or files you’ve put in the trash and you just never bothered to empty. But it’s a fact of life it’s just how computers operate, to some extent. It’s a bad thing to leave lots of junk lying around your computer. Today, we’ll be looking at how to get a better grasp of what’s on your Mac (and saving a ton of disk space) by removing duplicate files.
In part one of this series of articles looking at the new and improved Washing Machine, we examined the Organize cycle, and saw how it could make accessing things on your Mac quicker, by tidying up your Desktop, spiffing up your Dock and organizing Smart Folders.
How To How to Find and Remove Duplicate Files with Mac Washing Machine (Part 2)
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