Duplicate File Cleaner / Removal / Override

[arshia m.]

This is like vacuuming your house or office. Do you guys go without it for years on end? It's hard to believe this critical and essential feature does not exist. I currently have multiple folders that can be merged easily on windows, but not on Dropbox. One thing the Dropbox developers have to understand is that business accounts have larger amount of files on Dropbox than on their systems, and because of the painful speed of upload and download and the limitation of files that can be transferred at once (3000 files), it is not possible to do this on the desktop side. So there has to be a house cleaning tool that allows for maintenance and merging of duplicate folders and files. You can even find this on your phone these days. It is hard to imagine Dropbox for business customers do not have this option.

[Hannah]

Hey everyone, we're currently engaging with users and gathering feedback on the best way to implement this feature.

We'll provide an update once we have more information to share.

Thanks for sharing your suggestion with us!

[Walter]

The Dropbox team is currently reviewing this idea. We will share any updates with you.

[DrStan54]

Please allow to search all folders for duplicates.

[Gianmaria Zanotti]

Go go go for this feature

[bryanlim]

Find and manage duplicate files and photo

[UberGomp]

Would be nice to have an automation task for this as well. So that when a files get uploaded to a folder, depending on your rule, it either deletes it, or moves it to ie. a duplicates folder.

[jeanphi]

Function to search and delete duplicated files in ddifferent directories !

[DrStan54]

I echo WogOne's desire/need to be able to quickly and easily discover duplicates. I couldn't have said it better!

[Tzara]

I would appreciate the ability to scan for duplicate file names so I can determine what to delete without searching each file name.

[Tristangiovannith]

You’re exactly correct just like my iPhone will find duplicate files and I can just choose to delete them. So simple but they rather charge us for space instead of making it easy. That’s the reason they have not changed that.  You can see they have the capability with the extensions that are on your pictures.  I’m almost at 3tb and then I’m screwed, so I’ll m looking for another provider.  Just like there isn’t a “select all” tool to back up to a hard drive. All a scam to keep you tethered.  

[Tristangiovannith]

You’re exactly correct just like my iPhone will find duplicate files and I can just choose to delete them. So simple but they rather charge us for space instead of making it easy. That’s the reason they have not changed that.  You can see they have the capability with the extensions that are on your pictures.  I’m almost at 3tb and then I’m screwed, so I’ll m looking for another provider.  Just like there isn’t a “select all” tool to back up to a hard drive. All a scam to keep you tethered.