![]() ![]() With an increasingly full SSD on my MacBook, Gemini 2 is a welcome addition to the utilities I use to keep my MacBook’s drive under control. Between the two features, Gemini 2 found around 2 GB of duplicate and similar files in my Dropbox folder that its predecessor didn’t find. The enhancements to duplicate detection and the addition of similar file scanning make Gemini 2 a worthwhile upgrade. MacPaw has carved out a solid niche in the disk utility market with CleanMyMac and Gemini. On balance, however, I think the trade off is worth it given the added functionality of Gemini 2. As a result, the folder scans I ran with Gemini 2 took substantially longer than they did in Gemini and occasionally caused the fans on my 15” Retina MacBook Pro to roar. One downside to Gemini 2’s new capabilities is that it is computationally intensive. Everyone’s set of files are different, but judging from the scan of my Dropbox folder, this new feature could save Gemini customers a lot of additional storage space. With Gemini 2, you can browse through the photos, pick the ones you want to keep, and discard the rest. For instance, if you have a series of burst photos stored in a folder, the difference between them may be slight, but the space occupied can be large. This works particularly well with photos. Gemini 2’s new ability to find similar files has the potential to free up even more storage space on your Mac by finding photos and music files that are similar, but not exact duplicates. Gemini (left) and Gemini 2 (right) search results. To get a better idea of how Gemini 2 found potential storage savings almost five times greater its predecessor, I dug deeper into the results. Gemini 2 also found an additional 1.24 GB of similar files – a clear win for Gemini 2. Gemini 2 beat its predecessor by finding 1.23 GB of duplicates to Gemini’s 555 MB. With a name like Gemini, I figured, what better way to put it through its paces than to run both versions side by side to see what each could find in my 176 GB Dropbox folder. MacPaw also extended Gemini’s functionality by adding the ability to detect similar files, which you may want to discard to save even more space on your Mac. ![]() But the changes to Gemini are more than skin deep. Today, MacPaw released Gemini 2, which introduces a cleaner, more modern design that no longer mimics an outdated version of iTunes. One way I’ve dealt with the new reality of SSD storage is by running Gemini, a Mac utility from MacPaw that helps you reclaim precious storage on your Mac by detecting duplicate files. Suddenly, storage seemed to fill up faster than ever and file management was important again. Just as hard drives seemed to get so big that you couldn’t possibly fill one, laptops and many desktops switched to SSD storage, which is fast, but comes in much smaller capacities.
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