Duplicate Photo Removal of Toshiba Canvio Advance Hard Drive May 24, 2019December 23, 2024 Vikas Duplicate Data Toshiba Canvio Advance Portable Hard Drive comes in different vibrant colors. You can select from a wide variety of color combinations among black, white, silver, red and blue. The USB 3.0 port enables copying and moving of your files at lightning speed. You can use this external hard disk even if you have traditional USB 2.0 ports. Removing duplicate photos is a must-do kind of a job, before transferring all your computer data as a backup to the Toshiba Canvio Portable Hard Drive. This helps remove useless clutter, speeds up searches, and get the most not only out of your portable hard drive but also from your computer system, cloud drives (wherever you save photos). PictureEcho cleans up duplicate photos with great speed and unmatchable accuracy. PictureEcho is a verified software | Download it NOW Compatible with Windows 10, 8 & 7 | View the Terms of Service See PictureEcho blog for more details The portable hard disk weighs only 3.2 ounces and is only 4.3 x 3.1 x 0.6 inches in size, giving an edge to easily carry it during long-distance travels. You can store thousands of documents, videos, photos, music and even use it as a backup platform in the case of system errors, hard drive failure, boot failure, and countless other computing issues. Not just that, if you are running out of physical memory, i.e. RAM, you may connect the external hard disk and configure it to use as virtual memory. This means that you can enjoy faster gaming performance and perform complex operations without compromising on speed and efficiency. The free storage in your Toshiba Canvio external HDD will be used by the system catching mechanism. When you buy this Advance Portable Hard Drive, you get free access to the automatic backup solution. Use the beginner-friendly interface and detailed documentation to select folders of your choice and schedule automatic backups to keep your information backed up without having you to intervene every time. You can even protect your information from unauthorized users using the in-house Password Lock functionality. If you’re an avid Xbox One user and running short of storage space, you may use this hard disk to install your favorite games. One common problem faced by external hard drive users is the accumulation of numerous duplicate files. It can become a headache especially if you’re unable to keep track of growing chunk of information. It is quite possible to download the same file over and again from the Internet. We may also sometimes copy the same folder contents to different directories. This can result in the accumulation of unwanted duplicates. The search results may display irrelevant files and outdated versions scattered across different folders and drives, making you struggle all the time to search for the right file. In addition to this, dupes can eat up a significant portion of your external hard drive, and affect your computer’s overall performance, health, and stability. Even if you try to find duplicate files yourself, there are some challenges involved. For example, two or more files may share the same filename. But if you open these files, you would be surprised to find completely different content. Unless you have a smaller library of files, it’s a bit difficult to open and compare each file stored on your Toshiba Canvio Advance Portable Hard Drive. And even if you manage to individually search all duplicate files, there is an added risk of false positives. Meaning, the possibility of mistakenly deleting wrong original files cannot be completely ruled out. Worry not, there is still a way to deal with this growing problem of duplication. PictureEcho is an incredibly easy, reliable and powerful duplicate image finder software that can help you find identical copies of your image files in seconds. One of the unique features of this utility is its ability to hunt down duplicates even if there are minor differences in appearance. Consider this example. Many of us make minor changes to our original photographs such as we fix photo distortions, red eyes, change the brightness level, and replace the dirty background with an awesome looking colorful picture. It is nearly impossible to find these duplicate files manually. Sorcim’s PictureEcho can find such duplicate files in almost no time. Of course, you do have complete control over the entire scan procedure. You may even choose not to scan Similar Match, and use another scan criteria Exact Match. Both of these have their own advantages and cons. The latter searches for identical images on a byte-to-byte basis. Meaning, only images with absolutely identical content and no differences will be displayed. Most importantly, if you’re running out of time and don’t bother about reviewing each file, there’s an automatic selection functionality as well. You can bulk select files at ease and move/ permanently delete them based on preferred criteria of your choice. We will see that in detail in the latter part of this article. The in-house Preview feature shows the contents of your images without needing you to actually open it. This can save tremendous time, and you won’t have to worry about mistakenly deleting wrong files. Now, here’s how you can get rid of duplicate Toshiba Canvio Advance Portable hard drive files: Download PictureEcho Duplicate Photo Finder. Run the setup and follow the on-screen instructions to install the program on your machine. Once the program is installed, run it. Click on the Add Path. Select the target partition or folder that contains your duplicate pictures. Remember, you can select as many directories as you want using the same procedure. Now select scan criteria among Exact Match and Similar Match. Click on Start Search and the search should take place. Wait for some time. Once the results are accumulated, you would see thumbnails of duplicate images arranged in a list box along with relevant information such as filename, file path, file size, and file extension. You can scroll down to see more results. You have two options: You may review each file individually from the search result and take action of your choice. This can take some time but eliminates the possibility of mistakenly deleting any important file. Alternatively, you may use the automatic selection functionality by clicking the Select Duplicates button and selecting one of the following options: Retain Smaller Images In Each Group: This option saves your storage space by keeping images of smaller size in each group. Use it if you would like to eliminate larger sized pictures. Retain Bigger Images In Each Group: With this option, you can bulk select all larger versions of your files in each group and get rid of smaller ones. Retain High Resolution Images In Each Group: Image resolution is the sum of pixels stored in an image. Higher the resolution, better the picture quality. You may use this option to retain all high-resolution images in each group. Retain Low Resolution Images In Each Group: Retaining low-resolution images can compromise the picture quality but should make it easy to email and share files with your friends over the Internet. Retain Newest Images In Each Group: If you have previously worked upon some picture files and would like to retain the new modifications, this option should be your choice. All recent modifications you’ve made to your files will be kept. Retain Oldest Images In Each Group: This saves the oldest, typically original image copies in each group. Duplicate images with any new changes made to them may be lost. Select By Image Location: Select this option if you want to preserve or delete files based on their parent directory. For example: Unmarking all files located in C:\Users\Admin\Desktop should retain these files, and vice versa. Deselect All: This unchecks all file entries so that you can select them again afresh or choose not to delete/ move a single image file. Finally, once you’ve made up your decision, click on the Select Action button and choose whether to permanently delete your images or move them to an entirely new directory.