Get Organized: File Management Tools

Managing files and folders is not only limited to your shelves or drawers but in fact plays a very important role in the digital world. Data or files scattered on your hard drive will definitely have you pulling your hair when the need arises. In addition to this most of us also have the tendency to save the same files over and over again in different locations thereby increasing redundancy. This in fact adds up to space being unnecessarily consumed by files that are actually not required. Honestly speaking you wouldn’t know as to how much space you could actually recover, but that would require you to go through the contents of every folder.

There are a number of tools that one could make use of, but choosing the most appropriate tool makes a lot of difference. For instance, let’s say you don’t have a search tool and make use of Windows search. It would actually take a while to locate a file. Wouldn’t it be better if you had an application that could locate the file in seconds? So here is a list of tools that will not only help you search for what you're looking for faster but will also allow you to find duplicate files, organize (from photos to videos to music) and allow you to rename multiple files at the press of a button.

Finding Duplicates
One of the easiest tools that you can get your hands on is the application called Easy Duplicate Finder. It's easy to use and has an interface that cannot get any simpler. You have the file explorer towards the top left corner of the screen while you can add folders and drives that need scanning towards the right. The program also provides predefined "Scan filters" for specific file types such as Office, Music, Video, Web and many more to narrow down the search. File sizes can also be defined to make it even more specific. Other than this, you could also try applications such as Double killer, Duplicate Cleaner or MultiFind. However, we strongly recommend that you use Easy Duplicate Finder.

If you have any more suggestions, we'd love to hear them.