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Dealing With Duplicate Files – Control-Alt-Backspace

In the physical world, we encounter much difficulty because it’s hard to create copies of things: objects use finite resources and are expensive to produce, we have to physically repeat tasks over and over to do them multiple times, and so on. Ironically, in the digital world, many problems instead stem from how easy it is to copy things: some people make unauthorized copies of media and anger the distribution companies; others get doxxed and material they never wanted to share with anyone makes its way to millions of people; and all of us end up with four copies of the same set of files wasting our hard drive space and preventing us from remembering where we put things!

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