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EthanBrown
May 15, 2025Iron Contributor
Best duplicate file checker for quickly finding duplicates on Windows or Mac?
Hi everyone, My wife has an old laptop running Windows 11 at work and Ma Mani at home. She has been struggling with cluttered storage on the computer due to years of accumulating files. As you can s...
AlexHorod
Aug 11, 2026Copper Contributor
Personally I am using https://www.tkosoft.com/products/clonescan/ it's Windows-only, so it'd only cover half of what you need (your Windows 11 laptop, not the Mac). For the Windows side, it does name/size/SHA-1 hash matching, exports results to CSV so you can review before deleting anything, and moves duplicates to the Recycle Bin instead of permanent delete — useful for photos/docs since you can undo a bad call. For the Mac side you'd still need something separate like dupeGuru, which a few others here have mentioned and which also covers Windows if you'd rather run one tool on both.