How to clean vault from duplication

M-Files nowadays has built-in duplicate file detection, so you could create a view (or several views with some additional conditions) that lists duplicates in the vault. Usually someone would need to go through these manually and decide which ones can be deleted, as there can be legitimate reasons to store the same file in the vault multiple times.

User guide: How does the duplicate detection feature work?

Support portal: How to find duplicate file content in a vault

Hello Joonas,

I know about this option, and output result presented for us more then 10.000 files.

I'm looking for solution to prevent this:

"...someone would need to go through these manually and decide"

Lets assume I found 15437 files duplicated in the vault. Some couple with same name some not. I can't select each second file in the view and click delete. How can I automatically define pair for first duplicated file  and How can I define condition?

There's no built-in way to do this as far as I know, so if you need to automate the cleanup process somehow I think you'd need to do that through the API with a custom tool (see for instance FindVaultDuplicates method). The tool Mika was referring to in that old thread was basically doing what the built-in option does nowadays.

There's no built-in way to do this as far as I know, so if you need to automate the cleanup process somehow I think you'd need to do that through the API with a custom tool (see for instance FindVaultDuplicates method). The tool Mika was referring to in that old thread was basically doing what the built-in option does nowadays.