How to handle photo and file duplicates?

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Greetings all,

I’m looking to buy a home NAS system for data backup. Right now, I use a cloud service called iDrive.

However, I’ve noticed that somehow, I’ve no idea how, my data has been duplicated not once, or twice but FIVE times in my iDrive account.

If I have to sort through it all manually, I’ll most likely go crazy. Please tell me there is an easier way to detect/manage/delete duplicate files/videos/photos and so on??

Thank you,

-Terry

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There is plenty of duplicate file finder tools, here is one:

You should make sure to find where the issue was, what exactly created your duplicates. What backup tool was used ?

If you use the same faulty tool with your NAS, it will do the same.

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If we already have a lot of duplicates on the NAS will that app work across the NAS drives?

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Just downloaded it and answering my own question. It is now scanning my 23 thousand photos on my NAS. Thanks for the tip.

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Going to have to try that one. I have used an app called fdupes and it works fine also.

@ThatRedHeadGuy - I have iDrive as well. Use the QNAP iDrive app. Do NOT fall for iDrive’s new NAS backup that works with HBS. You’ll pay 10 times the amount for storage. I have 20TB of storage on iDrive and pay something like $200 for it and the iDrive app works very well.