I have tried keeping one copy and deleting the other four, both through Word, which puts them in the Recycle Bin or Webroot, which supposedly deletes them permanently. To this end, I have tried to search for a specific file or topic on my external drive, and let’s say, five copies come up all the same name, size, date created but in a variety of folders on the drive. My goal for my new laptop is to have it extremely organized and not filled with duplicates. I do not just want to dump my back up files onto the laptop. I have just bought a new laptop, HP ENVY. The issue is that over time due to backups and the like I have multiple copies of the same exact file in different folders on my WD Ultra Passport in a disorganized fashion for a variety of reasons. I now backup just my working files I need and maybe the Bookmarks from Mozilla.įrankly, I am just lost. I found over 4millon files being saved from temp locations.

now, I had a problem when my created backup choices, it did Cache files from Mozilla.

normally, most files are relatively small, except for Video’s.

It does keep a copy of the last current file in the Volume folder.

as best I know, WD backup saves up to 5 versions of the same file, all in the History folder of the WD Backup.swstor folder.Once you find out where all your files are, either by size or numbers, you can go forward. I’ve previously posted Treesize, so do a topic Search in this forum. Expand to open and see which folder has all the files. This app produces a Tree structure of the disk. You can download the Free version on the web…just search. I had this problem and found a PC utility called, Treesize.you need to determine where/what files or folders are taking up the space on your 1TB.Scallion…I haven’t seen this issue for some time, I’ll try some thoughts…

Treesize duplicate files