[lokie]

I am in the process of cleaning up hard drives and wanted to plug into the local intelligentsia here to ask if there are any issues or just anything I should be aware of when using duplicate clean up software.

Any recommendations?

I am also a little fuzzy on whether this type of software is smart enough to get rid of the "bad" duplicate and not the one that the metadata is pointing at??

[Crimson]

It's a pain, but I've always dealt with dupes manually. I haven't had to do so in a while, but one of my biggest peeves when using duplicate cleanup apps was their inability to distinguish between multiple versions of the same song (even something as simple as a live vs studio recording). I'd suggest making sure you have the ability to review duplicate lists before hitting the delete button, regardless of the software you use.

[SteveRB]

I use Disk Inventory X to locate the bloated file types and delete manually.