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Lint Head

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1. It usually means you have the same file in two different places

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Sun Dec 24, 2017, 02:59 PM

Dec 2017

When I get that type of message I tend to sample a few to make the title is the same but also the contents of the file.
There are times when I have gone back to update a file with text and would not realize there was a duplicate so the update would not exist on the duplicate even though the titles were the same. But generally it's a safe thing to do.

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Is it safe to delete duplicate files? [View all] left-of-center2012 Dec 2017 OP

It usually means you have the same file in two different places Lint Head Dec 2017 #1

Safer not to MFM008 Dec 2017 #2

Why are there duplicate files on my computer? douglas9 Dec 2017 #3

It depends greatly on what the files are. lastlib Dec 2017 #4