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App Highlight - Twins Professional Duplicate Finder

Discover an amazing new app for your Mac that will help you get rid of duplicate files and save you lots of space.

Every once in a while we come across a program or an app that surprises us with its simplicity and effectiveness and not only delivers what it promises, but does it so well that we can’t resist telling all our friends about it.  This week we came across just that app! It’s called “Twins-Duplicate Finder” and we have all been blown away by its ease of use and extremely helpful function.

Twins searches your entire computer for duplicate files very very quickly and then shows you all of the duplicate files it has found. It then shows you how much space these duplicates are taking up on your hard drive. You can look at all of the duplicate files to make sure you want to delete them, as sometimes you have duplicate files for a reason and you want to keep both. You have the option of moving selected duplicates to the trash or reviewing them and then letting the program do it all for you.  It keeps the original file in the safest folder by default if you decide to let the program delete them all for you automatically. Twins does not search your photo library, as there are other great programs that do that.

As any duplicate finding program you always want to be careful when you decide to let it delete things for you, but we were pleased with its success rate of truly finding multiple duplicates on our computers and with a little bit of perusing through its results you can quickly see that it finds a lot of files that are taking up space on your system for no reason.

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Twins found 1 GB of duplicates on one of our machines and 8 GB on another. One of our friends who had a lot of disorganized files on their computer found 53 GB of duplicates!  Thats a lot of space that you can get back on your machine. Twins is available in the Mac app store, which is found on your dock or by clicking on the black Apple logo in the top left corner of your computer and selecting “App Store” from the drop down list. It currently on sale at 70% off its regular price of $9.99 down to $3.99.  A program of this nature that does so much, so well is worth a lot more so its really a bargain at that price. We will keep sharing these apps as we come across them and if you want to learn more about apps and how you search for them, download them, and sync them MacInspires has a class called iCloud and iPurchases that can help you with all of it.

Here is the link for Twins if you would like to download it from the Mac app store.

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