{"id":913,"date":"2017-04-20T13:41:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T13:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/?p=913"},"modified":"2018-10-22T12:51:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T12:51:00","slug":"delete-duplicates-from-a-single-google-drive-folder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/20\/delete-duplicates-from-a-single-google-drive-folder\/","title":{"rendered":"Delete Duplicates from a Single Google Drive Folder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Duplicate files act as a bane and cause a headache to the user with the amount of space they occupy as well as contributing largely to the messy state of data. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This holds true for both cloud storage as well as local computer storage. Taking stock of this issue and rectifying it at the earliest is imperative for the user. Today we\u2019ll look at 3 different methods to remove duplicates from a single <\/span><b>Google Drive<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> folder.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clonefileschecker.com\/download\/ibx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong>Cleanup Google Drive Duplicates from a Single Folder<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Clone Files Checker\u00a0follows Google Software Principles<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><b>Using Google Drive<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>Google Drive<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s web interface can be used intelligently to weed out duplicates easily. However, this is more of a manual solution as the user will be required to do it all themselves. Also, this process lacks the depth of scrutinizing the content and basically hovers around looking for duplicates by focusing solely on file names.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visit the <\/span><b>Google Drive<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> homepage located at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/my-drive\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/my-drive<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click the <\/span><b>My Drive<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> link on the left so that it collapses and brings up a list of all the folders it contains.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now expand the respective folder until you\u2019ve located the target file which contains duplicates.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once all the files have been listed, click the <\/span><b>Name<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> column head to arrange all the items alphabetically.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<figure id=\"attachment_919\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 131px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/223.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-919\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/223.jpg\" alt=\"Click Name to sort the items alphabetically\" width=\"121\" height=\"44\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><strong>Click Name to sort the items alphabetically<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now you can easily spot all the duplicates and proceed to delete them without any issues.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For those users who have downloaded <\/span><b>Google Drive<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on their computers, they can also remove duplicates in a similar fashion by launching the <\/span><b>Google Drive<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> application on their computer, navigating to the suspect folder and arranging its contents alphabetically. And from then onwards, deleting duplicates should be as easy as it should be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><b>Using a Duplicate Finder<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A purpose built duplicate cleaning software guarantees accurate results at the stroke of a few clicks. This helps save time as well as providing you with the ability to customize your scan if the need arises. <\/span><b>Clone Files Checker<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is all what you need to do the needful. Running a scan on your computer will unfold a powerful algorithm that will minutely look at not just file names but it will pay due attention to the content as well. This means that any rogue files that are absolutely identical but they have been somehow renamed separately won\u2019t be able to escape the scan and a flag will be raised at once.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sorcim.com\/clone-files-checker.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Download <\/span><b>Clone Files Checker<\/b><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on your computer and then install it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Launch the software through its desktop shortcut.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click the <\/span><b>Cloud Scan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> tab and then select <\/span><b>Load Drive<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the left pane.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enter your <\/span><b>Google<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> account credentials and then give your approval when you\u2019re prompted for granting access to your <\/span><b>Google Drive<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> content.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/221.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-917\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/221-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"221\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/221-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/221-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/221-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/221.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once the content has been loaded completely select any \/ all folders you wish to include in the scan and then select <\/span><b>All Files<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><b>Custom<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2192 <\/span><b>File Type<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (as applicable) from <\/span><b>Step 2<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally click <\/span><b>Start Search<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to kickstart the scan.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_918\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/222.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-918 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/222-300x68.jpg\" alt=\"222\" width=\"300\" height=\"68\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/222-300x68.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/222-768x174.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/222.jpg 916w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><strong>Click on Start Search<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once the scan results are out, you can (optionally) select by clicking the <\/span><b>Select Duplicates <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">button whether you want to retain the oldest, newest, least modified or most modified file from each group of duplicates.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lastly, hit the <b>Select Action<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> button to choose whether to delete the duplicate files permanently or to move them to a separate folder. If you choose the former, you will be prompted to create a backup before proceeding to deletion, in case you need those files in the future.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duplicate files act as a bane and cause a headache to the user with the amount of space they occupy as well as contributing largely to the messy state of data.<\/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":[573,575,576,574],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solutions","tag-deleting-duplicates-from-a-single-folder-in-gdrive","tag-help-with-getting-rid-of-dupes-on-a-single-google-drive-folder","tag-how-to-remove-duplicate-files-from-a-single-gdrive-folder","tag-how-to-remove-duplicates-from-a-folder-in-google-drive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","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=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1790,"href":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stcleaner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}