Duplicates.
Reclaim byte-identical copies.
Fingerprints every candidate with SHA-256, groups the files that share a hash, and keeps one copy per group so you can recover the rest. It matches by content, not by name, so a copy called report_final_v3 (1).pdf is caught even when the name has drifted.
- SHA-256 verified
- groups by content
- keeps one, frees the rest
What you see while it scans
Every Atlas tool has its own loading animation, drawn from the work that tool actually does. Duplicates shows two files being reduced to one SHA-256 sum and matched, the same fingerprinting it runs on your drive, with large videos taking the longest. This panel plays that animation live on this page.
Byte-identical copies, collapsed to one
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Match by content, not name
Files are grouped by their SHA-256 hash, so a copy is caught even if it was renamed. Same bytes means same group, regardless of the filename.
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Groups ranked by savings
Each group shows how many identical copies it holds and how much you would save by keeping one. Groups are sorted so the biggest wins come first.
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One keeper per group
The newest copy of each group is marked as the keeper automatically. You keep one and recover the rest.
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The rest go to the Vault
Keep newest routes every redundant copy to the Vault, so a mistaken match is still reversible.
The same file saved three times under slightly different names, silently doubling and tripling how much space it takes.
Each set of identical copies collapsed to a single keeper, the redundant ones recovered, and the whole thing reversible from the Vault.
