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Spring cleaning for your Mac: How to consolidate files and remove duplicates

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This week we tackle some of your storage questions, including consolidating, de-duplication, and management.</p><h2>Too many drives</h2>
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Reader Jon writes that he has a pile of partly full external USB drives formatted for use with Windows that he almost always mounts on a Mac, and expects there is a lot of duplication among the different drives he’s using.</p>

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I need some guidance on the best approach to consolidating all of the data down to one drive, best disk file system recommendations, parsing through the data for duplicates and deleting it, and then trying somehow, magically, organize, filter or quickly search all of the content.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2899656/spring-cleaning-for-your-mac-how-to-consolidate-files-and-remove-duplicates.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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