

This means you’ll need to go to the directories and do the manual labor. The free trial will only find the duplicates for you but won’t delete them. Although, you can get started using the free trial.

Given the fact that you’ll be able to use the app every few weeks to clean up new duplicate files that keep popping up, it’s totally worth the price. This means the app will be able to identify images that are the same or similar even when they don’t have the same name and they aren’t in the same directly. See, Gemini uses MacPaw’s algorithms to determine if two files are duplicates.

I say “smart” because Gemini actually is. Gemini 2 is a really smart app from MacPaw and all it does is scan your storage and looks for duplicate files – in all the ways possible. There’s a very easy way to identify and get rid of these files. But they’re there, silently taking up a couple of GBs of precious storage space on your 128 GB MacBook. There’s really no way to way to do that manually – unless you want to spend hours at end at this one task. The thing about duplicate files is that you never really think about them, or go looking for them. You create a quick copy of something on the desktop only to forget about it a week later. You want to sync something to your iPhone and you copy it over to Dropbox. You add something to iTunes and it gets copied over to iTunes directly (not moved). The way that we use our Macs for work, duplicates files are just a part of our life.
