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Gemini 2 does a great job at finding similar or duplicate items inside your iTunes/Photos libraries. ITunes is notorious for leaving multiple, old versions of iOS apps on your disk, which is the main culprit why so many people complain about their iTunes libraries spiraling out of control.Īpple’s Photos app suffers from a similar problem: if you use third-party Photos extensions-many of which lack non-destructive editing akin to built-in editing tools and filters-every edit you make in such extension creates a copy of the edited image on your disk (so that you can undo changes). The items you’ve opted to exclude from the clean-up process won’t be deleted.Īfter it’s finished removing the items, Gemini 2 puts up a summary screen so that you can see just how much storage space you’ve gained by getting rid of duplicates.ĭon’t worry about unwanted files being incorrectly classed as duplicates and potentially deleted: Gemini 2 sends duplicate items to the Trash, meaning they’re not really deleted until you Empty Trash in the Finder. When you’re done fine-tuning your duplicates and similars, click Remove. The app will then go to work and remove any files it’s identified as duplicates or similars. You can exclude files you don’t want removed, mark items as your favorites and sort them by size, name, count or selected count in ascending or descending order. The duplicates browser supports list and grid mode, which is very nice. In the righthand column, you can see a big preview of the currently selected file. The middle column provides the full-on folder and file hierarchy view for your currently selected folder. In the lefthand column, you have locations for your exact duplicates and similar files, listed separately, giving you an at-a-glance overview how much storage space is wasted to duplicate and/or similar files inside OS X’s common folders like Pictures, Documents, Movies, Applications and so forth. The interface for reviewing results couldn’t be simpler. To remove duplicates without intervention, click Smart Cleanup.Īlternatively, choose Review Results to, well, review the identified duplicates and make changes before they are trashed. The app looks into files’ metadata and uses more than ten different parameters in determining similar or identical files, including file names, creation and modification dates, extensions, locations (to ensure accuracy and precision in results) and more.Īfter scanning finishes, Gemini 2 will put up a report card detailing duplicates that’ll get removed and specify how much storage space you’ll save by trashing these files. The app can identify duplicates in archives, folders, apps, documents, videos, images and audio files on your computer and mounted volumes. Gemini will first estimate the time to complete the initial scan.Īs I mentioned, its scanning algorithm is fast as lightning, more so on Macs with solid-state storage. In the next step, click Scan for Duplicates and let the app perform its magic dance.

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To get started, click the huge plus sign to select some folders to scan, or simply drag and drop one or more folders from the Finder onto the Gemini window.

This is what Gemini’s launch screen looks like.

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Saving storage space on a Mac with Gemini 2 Instead, after scanning your Mac’s disks it selects the files it thinks are similar or exact duplicates for review, but the decision to remove them lies on your shoulders.īest of all, in Gemini 2 you can define bespoke rules for duplicates removal. “In the second version, we went the extra mile and set an even higher standard for it: Gemini 2 has become way smarter, safer and better-looking.”įor your own safety, the app won’t automatically remove any duplicates found. “The first version of Gemini set a high standard for how a duplicate finder should look and work, and immediately became a trendsetter in the category”, said MacPaw co-founder and CEO Oleksandr Kosovan. It scans your iTunes and Photos libraries in search of retakes of the same picture or different formats of the same song, and becomes smarter and more precise in automatic selection of duplicates the more you use it. For those unfamiliar with it, Gemini is an intelligent duplicate file finder that can help recover tons of storage space on your Mac wasted to duplicate files.Īside from identifying identical duplicates, Gemini 2 uses a proprietary algorithm to spot similar files that are not 100 percent identical, but can be considered redundant due to little difference between them.

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Ukrainian developer MacPaw, the makers of the versatile and powerful CleanMyMac and CleanMyDrive apps, today pushed a major new update for Gemini as a brand new app.