What's the best way to go though thousands of files?

Do what is the best way to go though thousands of files to delete duplicates and to organize them all?

 

It depends on what you mean exactly by "organize", but this can help you find duplicates: Find duplicate files with Auslogics Duplicate File Finder

P.S. I mean, music might be organized by genre, artist and album. Movies on the other hand would be organized by year and title. There's specialized software for most of these scenarios, but not all at once.

 

Well guess there isn't a way to organize all my files haha but thanks for the duplicats manager or what ever you want to call it haha

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MD5 search engines such as Auslogics is acceptable for most people, but you can run into a roadblock with deep scans when the program is trying to find a match for relatively large file sizes.

With MD5 hashing you can also have collisons of two very like files. The MD5 checksum of two like files might only be 1 or 2 numbers off, but the program will report the file as a duplicate anyways. This can lead you to deleting the NON-duplicate file...plus on top of that removing a useful file from your machine that you did not want to delete.

Your better option is to use NoDupe which ensures 100% accuracy of duplicate files because it searches each file bit-by-bit (1's and 0's), so you can be confident that the duplicate file it found really was a duplicate file.

Plus NoDupe is freeware and Auslogics is commerical.


Download NoDupe:

http://download1us.softpedia.com/dl...100192975/software/system/NoDupe_1_16_7_2.exe


As far as organization of files, I'm not really sure how you would organize them but if you wanted to view where exactly everything was at by file type + folder location, I would recommend the Search Everything tool.

Download Search Everything:

http://www.voidtools.com/Everything-1.2.1.371.exe

You can exclude certain folders such as TEMP and other drives to pinpoint where everything is more precisely.

For example to search for every single JPG image file on your drive you just type in *.jpg and then click on the "Path" category to organize everything by path. It doesn't actually organize everything it just shows you where everything is in an organized manner. The organizing part is the manual part.

 

I don't understand the problem people have organizing files. Don't you put the photos in the Photos folder with individual sub folders for each subject? The same idea goes for all files on your computer. Word files go in a Word folder with sub folders for each subject and so on...Exactly what is the problem?

 

That alot of my files are in the other catagorey

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