[Hidden-tech] halp ......so many duplicate files

[Annamarie Pluhar]

Well that sounds like a nightmare. How big is your external drive? That 
certainly sounds like a way to proceed. I think I’d try it in batches.
And I did a bit of google search and didn’t find an answer but maybe 
someone here knows - I think you have to get the files out of their 
separate user accounts to be able to manage them together.

Another thought - don’t try to manage the duplication - just have the 
files on an external drive and when you need an old file go and get it.

My two cents.
Annamarie


On 3 Jan 2020, at 0:43, Elyssa Serrilli via Hidden-discuss wrote:

> Hey friends and neighbors,
>
> A few years ago, my old Macbook died.  Some nice folks were able to 
> "rescue
> the data", and put it on my new Macbook.  They created a new user to 
> do
> this, and duplicate files of all my data and apps.  Then my old new 
> Macbook
> died.  Some nice folks were able to "rescue the data", and put it on 
> my new
> new Macbook.  My new new Macbook has three users on it, each with the 
> old
> old data 3 times, and the old data 2 times and the new new data once.  
> This
> sucks.  Almost all my memory is used up.
>
> I tried to download a duplicate file deleter app, but I couldn't 
> because I
> don't have enough memory to download the one app, and I don't have a 
> recent
> enough version of Mac Os to download the other.
>
> What can I do?  I have kerzillions of files.  I tried going through 
> the
> list one by one using a "Smart Folder", but I have over 12,000 just 
> jpgs.
> I have an external hard drive... I wonder if that could be put to good 
> use
> in this endeavor.
>
> Oh good techies of the valley... what do you know about this? <3
>
>
> In the dance of Service to all Life
> In Magycke and Divine Play
>
> Elyssa Marie Serrilli
>
> Cultural Engineer
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *"If you have come here to help me, you are wasting our time. But if 
> you
> have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us 
> work
> together." ~ Lilla Watson*


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