Beyond Compare’s detailed method to quickly clean up duplicate folders on your computer

Faced with a mountain of folders on your computer, duplicate files take up a lot of space, which is a headache. For this reason, Beyond Compare software came into being, which can help us quickly clean up these duplicate folders and free up valuable storage space. PHP editor Yuzai hereby brings you the detailed method of Beyond Compare to quickly clean up duplicate folders, and guides you step by step to clear redundant files on your computer.

Normally we may clean up some highly similar folders by simply checking duplicate folders, but this method may delete some important files by mistake. By using the Beyond Compare (Windows system) file comparison tool, we can accurately compare similar folders and find the similarities and differences between the folders so that important files can be backed up and duplicate files can be cleaned up.

Figure 1: Folder comparison

1. Compare folders

If you need to use the Beyond Compare file comparison tool to compare similar folders, we Just select the [Folder Compare] function on the homepage of Beyond Compare to turn on this function.

After entering the [Folder Comparison] function panel, we can click the quick open folder button at the bottom of the toolbar to open the two folders that need to be compared.

Figure 2: Open the folder

After opening the folder, the Beyond Compare file comparison tool will display a list of all files in the two folders on both sides of the software by default. At the same time, the differences between the two folders will be marked with blank lines and purple fonts. Since there are many files in the folder, we can use the drag bar on the right to browse other file differences.

Figure 3: Comparison results

2. View differences

If we want to quickly browse the differences in the folder instead of pulling If you drag the bar to view them one by one, you can click the [Difference] button in the top toolbar to display only the differences in the folder. As you can see from the example below, there are 4 differences in these two folders, each with its own unique files.

Figure 4: View differences

If we want to view only the unique items on the left, we can click [Unique Items] on the top toolbar, and then Select an option in its menu list, such as [Show newer items on the left].

Figure 5: Difference display settings

At this point, the Beyond Compare file comparison tool will only display newer items with differences in the left folder.

Figure 6: Display the newer items on the left

3. Copy files

The comparison folder panel of the Beyond Compare file comparison tool also has The function of copying files. We only need to click [Copy] on the top toolbar to copy the file on the left or right to another folder. Then you can delete excess duplicate folders.

Figure 7: Copy files

By using the folder comparison function of the Beyond Compare file comparison tool, we can not only find the similarities in the folders, but also The difference is that it plays a great role in cleaning up duplicate folders in your computer. In addition, by using this comparison function, we can also find files that have been mixed in by mistake in the folder.

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