Nowadays, everyone uses videos a lot, whether they are for personal use, movies, or educational purpose. However, with the massive increase in video storage, it is common for duplicate videos to accumulate over time.
These duplicate videos take up valuable disk space, slow down system performance, and make it difficult to manage your videos. Before removing any important files, it is crucial to back up them first to prevent data loss. In this WiseCleaner article, we will walk you how to back up duplicate videos before removing them from your system.
Step-by-step guide to back up duplicate videos before removing
Step 1. Launch the software
Open Wise Duplicate Finder by searching it from the Search menu . If you have not had it installed on your system, download and install the latest version to your Windows computer first.
Step 2. Select File type
On the interface of Wise Duplicate Finder, select the Home tab. Click on the arrow next to All files to open the drop-down menu of File type. Choose Video files.
Step 3. Enable the Back up feature
Switch to the Options tab, and ensure to select the check box of Back up files before permanently deleting. Then select your back up folder by clicking the folder icon and select a location from your drive.
Step 4. Scan for duplicates
After selecting, click on Scan to search for duplicate videos on the drive.
Step 5. Delete the duplicates
- Wait for seconds, and choose the duplicate videos which you want to remove.
- You can preview them from the right-side Preview pane to ensure you will not remove any important videos.
- Once you have done selecting, click on Delete Selected to back up the selected duplicate videos to the location you chose and remove them permanently.
Conclusion
Backing up duplicate videos before deleting using Wise Duplicate Finder is a simple yet smart method to not only manage your video library effectively, but also ensure your videos remain protected.
