How to find and remove duplicate files from iCloud Drive?

To find and delete duplicate files from iCloud Drive using Duplicate Sweeper, follow the steps below...

1. Ensure that iCloud Drive is set up on your computer
2. You'll now see an iCloud Drive folder in your File Explorer.
3. Launch Duplicate Sweeper and click "Add Folder"
4. Select your iCloud Drive folder and click OK.
5. Hit the "Start Duplicate Search" button.
6. Choose which duplicates to remove by checking the file's relative checkbox.
7. Click "Recycle Selected Duplicates" and then confirm that you wish to remove the selected duplicates.

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Detailed Steps

If you have been plagued by many duplicate files making a mess of your computer's iCloud Drive, help is at hand. Duplicate Sweeper can scan your iCloud Drive and return a list of all duplicates files that it contains. It then makes it easy to select which duplicate files to keep and which to remove - then remove them for you.

Since you have found this article, it is likely that you'll already have iCloud Drive set up on your computer. However, if you still need to set it up, you can find instructions on how to do this on Apple's website here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102595. As you can see, you need to download and install iCloud on your computer, then enable iCloud Drive.

So, you've got iCloud Drive on your computer, and it's full of duplicate files. This is a problem for many, as you only get so much cloud storage space for free, and you don't want to be paying for extra storage if you can save space by deleting duplicates!

Now we can scan iCloud Drive for duplicates.

To begin, install and run Duplicate Sweeper, and click "Add Folder" button in the bottom-left corner. To scan the entire iCloud Drive, select the iCloud Drive folder (usually found in your user folder). If you prefer to scan specific areas, open the folder and choose one or more subfolders instead. Once you've made your selection, click OK to add the folder(s) to the scan.

Next, click the "Start Duplicate Search" button in the top-right corner of Duplicate Sweeper.

Duplicate Sweeper will now scan the folder/s and return a list of any duplicate files it has found. You can manually tick the files in each group that you wish to remove, or press the "Keep All Newest Files" to automatically select the oldest files to remove. More selection preferences can be found under the Duplicates tab of the Duplicate Sweeper toolbar.

For a more visual guide, check out our Duplicate Sweeper tutorial video, which shows you the steps to find and remove duplicates using Duplicate Sweeper.