{"id":1953,"date":"2019-07-17T14:22:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T14:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2019-07-17T14:22:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T14:22:18","slug":"what-to-do-if-all-the-files-are-showing-duplicates-in-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/17\/what-to-do-if-all-the-files-are-showing-duplicates-in-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Do if All the Files Are Showing Duplicates in Mac?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having duplicate files on your Mac can be the most vexing thing ever. Duplicate files can be a daunting factor leading to your system\u2019s deteriorating speed and decreasing storage space. Of course, no one wants to buy and keep a bunch of hard drives just because their Mac device is filled up with unnecessary clones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>Where do these clone files come from?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If all of your files on your Mac device are showing duplicates, there could be a number of reasons for that. Maybe you activated a multiple back-up tool\/option or maybe you are sharing the same file on multiple applications. Sometimes, duplicates are also generated when you unintentionally download the same file more than once.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>What to do?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are a Mac user, it may be possible that you are seeing duplicates for all the files due to a glitch. In such a case, it is likely that you will see duplicates when you go to \u201cAll My File\u201d but not when you are on your desktop, document or any other real location.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you are stuck in such a situation, here\u2019s what you can do:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Press the <\/span><b>Command, Option, and Escape<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> buttons simultaneously.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You will now see a list of programs that you could force quit.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Go to <\/span><b>\u201cFinder\u201d.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Select <\/span><b>\u201cRelaunch\u201d.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s like shooting fish in a barrel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alternatively, it is possible that you have a Time Machine set up and you are seeing all backup files as well. To resolve this issue:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Head to the <\/span><b>System Preferences<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click on <\/span><b>\u201cSpotlight\u201d.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Select the <\/span><b>Privacy tab.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click on the <\/span><b>\u201c+\u201d button<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> towards the bottom of the window.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here, you can add the <\/span><b>Time Machine drive(s).<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quit out of System Preferences once you have <\/span><b>excluded your Time Machine drive<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In case both of the above-mentioned methods do not work, it is likely that your system is not facing a glitch but is actually a victim of excessive duplicate files. In that case, finding and removing each duplicate file can be quite a gigantic task.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To avoid this, you could use a tool that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clonefileschecker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">detects and removes duplicate files in Mac<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> swiftly. <\/span><b>Clones File Checker (CFC)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is one such efficient and easy-to-use tool. It is compatible with Mac OS X 10.10 onwards and works with various types of files including images, videos, archives, and documents. With tools like CFC, you can easily customize your scan, preview the results and then either relocate the duplicates or delete them permanently. It\u2019s a snap!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We hope our little tricks will help you solve your problem!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having duplicate files on your Mac can be the most vexing thing ever. Duplicate files can be a daunting factor leading to your system\u2019s deteriorating speed and decreasing storage space. Of course, no one wants to buy and keep a bunch of hard drives just because their Mac device is filled up with unnecessary clones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[985,954,987,986,772],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solutions","tag-delete-duplicates-in-mac","tag-get-rid-of-duplicate-audios-in-real-player","tag-kill-away-all-duplicates-in-mac","tag-remove-mac-duplicates","tag-sweep-clean-the-windows-10-video-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1954,"href":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions\/1954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}