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Method 1 of 4:
Using VLC Media Player
VLC Media Player doesn't allow you to delete duplicate files directly. However, you can do it manually: Add multiple files to the Playlist, sort them alphabetically, find duplicate files and go to the target folder to delete them. Here's a 15-step process to delete all of your duplicate files:
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Images 1 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Open VLC Media Player. -
Images 2 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Click View menu and select Playlist OR press Ctrl + L (You can see a playlist pane on left-side). -
Images 3 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Click Media menu and select Open Multiple Files OR press Ctrl + Shift + O. -
Images 4 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive It opens up Open Media dialogue. -
Images 5 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Click the Add button. -
Images 6 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Locate and add multiple movies stored on your hard drive. -
Images 7 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Click Open | Play. -
Images 8 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive The movie playback will start immediately. Stop it for now. -
Images 9 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive It then displays the entire playlist with Title, Duration, Album columns. -
Images 10 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Right click on an empty area of your Playlist and select Sort by | Title Ascending. -
Images 11 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Now you can easily track a list of all duplicate movies. -
Images 12 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Right click on a file and select Show Containing Folder. -
Images 13 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Press the Delete key. -
Images 14 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Click Yes to move the file to Recycle Bin.
Method 2 of 4:
Using iTunes
iTunes includes a function to find and remove duplicate music files. All you have to do is add multiple movies to your Library. Once you're done with that, select an option that automatically shows duplicates on the same page.
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Images 15 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Open iTunes. -
Images 16 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Click the Main Menu and select Movies OR press Ctrl+2. -
Images 17 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Click Main Menu again and select Add files to Library (OR press Ctrl+O). -
Images 18 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Select Multiple Movies stated in Step # 8 when using VLC Media Player. -
Images 19 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Click Open. -
Images 20 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Selected movies will not show unless you're in the Home Videos tab. By default you're in My Movies tab. Click Home Videos tab. -
Images 21 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive This shows you Movie Thumbnails. -
Images 22 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Press Alt key to show Menu Bar. -
Images 23 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Click View menu and select Show Duplicate Items. -
Images 24 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Now you have all duplicate movies right in front of you. Right click any duplicate file and select Delete -
Images 25 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Here you are with a confirmation prompt. -
Images 26 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Click Delete button to proceed. Once you're done with this tedious job, press Alt key, click View menu and select Show all items.
Method 3 of 4:
Using Windows Media Player
When dealing with a pesky Windows Media Player, you need to add files to Video Library. You have to sort all movie titles out alphabetically and delete duplicate files.
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Images 27 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Open your Windows Media Player. -
Images 28 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive By default, you're on the following page:Library > Music > All Music. -
Images 29 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Click Videos on the left panel. -
Images 30 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Is it empty? If it is, add videos. Right click Videos and select Manage Video Library. -
Images 31 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive This opens a Video Library Locations dialog. -
Images 32 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Click Add. -
Images 33 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Add folders having movies and click Include Folder. -
Images 34 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Click OK. -
Images 35 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Now you have new movies added to your library. -
Images 36 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Sort them out by their titles. -
Images 37 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Right click any duplicate movie, select Delete. -
Images 38 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Click Confirm to 'Delete From Library and My Computer'. -
Images 39 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Click OK.
Method 4 of 4:
Using a Duplicate Cleaner Tool
This method involves cleaning duplicate files, duplicate movies, multiple copies of same video files stored on your hard disk. A duplicate cleaner can recover significant amount of disk space- usually in several GBs.
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Images 40 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Download and install a duplicate cleaner tool. -
Images 41 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Specify the directories you want to include in the scan. -
Images 42 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Specify whether you want to search all types of files or only movie files. -
Images 43 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Start the scan process, and wait until it completes. -
Images 44 of How to Find Duplicate Movies on a Hard Drive Choose how to finish the process:- Now that you've two options: automatically clean-up all duplicates or manually check-up every item.
- You have to specify whether you want the duplicates to be removed permanently or just move them to Recycle Bin or any other folder of your hard disk.
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