If I was paying to back up my files to the cloud, this duplication could be costly. The reality is, my duplicate files are using up more storage space on my PC than it should, and my backups are taking up more space on my backup drive and I simply cannot ignore the issue any longer. Yet the last thing I want is to have my PC crash and not be able to recover my photos. If that wasn't bad enough, the very fact that I am backing up my PC, means that I am creating even more duplication. The truth is, just the thought of manually cleaning out and organizing my duplicate files is just too overwhelming and as a result never happens. Over the years I have allowed the issue to compounded resulting in what one could call a junk-yard of duplicate photos that are now overtaking my computer.

What I have come to realize is that by not addressing the issue, I have wasted an enormous amount of disk space and inadvertently allowed my computer to suffer from free disk space issues. I know I'm given the option to delete all of the files from my camera after copying them to my computer, but for some reason I never do so. It seems like every time I plug my camera (or iPhone for that matter) into my computer I create a new folder with yet another duplicate copy of my pictures.

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