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Hello and welcome to Hands on Tech, the show where I, Micah Sargent, answer your tech questions and occasionally review a gadget or two.

Today, we are kicking things off with a question that comes in from Richard. Richard writes in to say,

In an effort to clear some space in my Windows 11 hard drive, which is close to filling up, I checked on some picture files and folders that

I haven't looked at in years. I was surprised to find that in just about every picture folder,

for every original picture file I saved, there are two to three separate copy files of the same

picture. I don't recall ever saving duplicate files of pictures. What would

cause this, and is there a quick way to delete these duplicate files? Otherwise, I'm going

to have to go through hundreds of picture folders to delete these duplicates. And first and

foremost, the reason why I want to answer this question is not because, not only because I think I might

have a few answers here for Richard, but also because, as always, this is an opportunity for us to

talk about providing questions and details to help answer those questions. So, in a question

like this, one thing that is incredibly helpful

is knowing what different software you might have installed that ever touches those photos. So

when you are doing your own troubleshooting to try to figure out what might be causing this issue,

you likely are looking at the different applications that you

have on your machine that might interact with these photos, right? You might have a photo editing

program. You might have a photo backup system running. You may have those different tools available.

And so knowing what those are, looking through your applications and seeing any photo editor, any photo

management solution that you have, and noting that in the email to me is very helpful.

And that is kind of an opportunity for people who write it in the future looking for assistance, to be able to kind of hone your question

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