Corncrake

Ok, still doesn't explain what happened or solve my problem. Years ago I recall another forum suggesting.....why worry about duplicates,they just sit there not bothering anybody! May be the case but aesthetically they annoy the heck out of me,I don't understand how they got there and surely they take up potentially useful data space. There,that's off my chest. Yep, on the techy side of things I'd certainly be considered inexperienced so no offence taken.

Hi nukecad, the 4 hours of clicking I described was choosing then hitting delete for many hundreds of files. at the end of the process duplicate finder could find no duplicates,I may be a bit of a technophobe but not quite that thick!

Downloaded CCleaner free edition hoping to delete duplicate files,mainly photos. Clicking the duplicates took approx 4 hours! seemed to work,then I looked at my photos and many duplicates were still there! Help,please.