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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1892489" data-attributes="member: 396914">Ok, Disk Inventory X seems to work, but finding duplicates (assuming they are there) is painful. I had to go down through the tree to see the path to each file to see where it was. I suppose if you see two files with the same name, but one has a path to /Macintosh HD/.... and the other to /Users/....., and are otherwise the same that would be an indictor that you do have duplicates on the Macintosh HD Volume. PITA to track that, but all you need is to fine ONE, which will be an indicator that there are more. Then maybe use Finder to track to that location by using the Go/Go to Folder to get to that exact place to see if there are more there. Then the challenge is which to delete? But first, see if you can locate duplicates. That's a good place to start. Of course, one alternative, assuming you have a clean backup is to wipe out the drive, repartition, reformat, reinstall the OS from scratch and then restore from the backup. That's a PITA, too, but if you choose to go that path, we can give you details on how to do it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1892489, member: 396914"] Ok, Disk Inventory X seems to work, but finding duplicates (assuming they are there) is painful. I had to go down through the tree to see the path to each file to see where it was. I suppose if you see two files with the same name, but one has a path to /Macintosh HD/.... and the other to /Users/....., and are otherwise the same that would be an indictor that you do have duplicates on the Macintosh HD Volume. PITA to track that, but all you need is to fine ONE, which will be an indicator that there are more. Then maybe use Finder to track to that location by using the Go/Go to Folder to get to that exact place to see if there are more there. Then the challenge is which to delete? But first, see if you can locate duplicates. That's a good place to start. Of course, one alternative, assuming you have a clean backup is to wipe out the drive, repartition, reformat, reinstall the OS from scratch and then restore from the backup. That's a PITA, too, but if you choose to go that path, we can give you details on how to do it. [/QUOTE]

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