In general there are a lot of duplicate files on a mac, also in the System software.

If duplicates are created, you can right click on it and move to trash. Let me know if you guys have this same problem. Relaunching finder from the force quit applications window (Option+Command+Escape) fixes it for me. MAC OS X Lion / Mountain Lion does not save your wallpaper on the native HDD, rather tries to load the wallpaper from the original HDD, i guess only the path to the wallpaper is saved in the OS X settings. The files don't add any more space to the drive, so while it doesn't harm my computer's storage, it is still very annoying. Right now, you can save 100 with this M1 Mac mini sale alongside the same discount on M1 iMac. When, I then moved them back out of the trash, they reappeared with all the duplicate files back into the All My Files page. All of today’s best deals are headlined by a pair of discounts on Apple’s latest desktop Macs. With this feature, you don’t have to worry about manually syncing filessimply save files on the desktop or tuck them in the Documents folder where most people keep them and they become available on all your iCloud devices. You must set up Desktop and Documents sync on every Mac you wish to keep in sync. When I tried deleting one of the duplicates, all of those said files moved to Trash but only appeared as the original file. Browsing my Mac’s desktop in a web browser via. Is there anyway to delete these duplicates? In summary, the files I tried to upload to the Cloud, which I then cancelled, have duplicates in the All My Files folder but not on the Desktop/Documents folders. However, the files only appear once on my Desktop instead of also having the duplicates. Now I have anywhere from 3-6 duplicate files in my All My Files folder, all of which are the have the same size, location, and name (Except the duplicates have a timestamp as well). I recently upgraded to MacOS Sierra and after enabling 'Upload Desktop and Documents files to iCloud Drive', I realized that I didn't have enough space to get them completely uploaded.Īfter getting frustrated watching them endlessly trying to upload with no avail, I disabled this feature and in return, my 'All My Files' folder in Finder began duplicating the files that it tried to upload.

Saving multiple desktops on mac