League of Legends has proven to be yet another of the highly popular games based on the hardcore battle theme.
This game has left game buffs glued to their computer screens for hours at a stretch.
However, there is a twist. League of Legends tends to eat up way too much space on the hard disk than the user’s liking. To make matters even worse, several of the files that are created by the game are often duplicate. This means that the exact same information is spread across multiple files and continues to occupy a lot more space than it ought to be, for no good use.
League of legends, being an online multiplayer game connects to the Internet and the user competes against other players. The game creates multiple files on the computer to help it function properly. But sometimes these files don’t function as intended. League of Legends makes use of various components to provide a seamless gaming experience to the user and it requires multiple files and libraries to make that possible. So, most files that look duplicate to us are essential to the system. These include duplicate League of legends libraries and files available in folders and subfolders. Therefore, proceed with extreme caution while trying to delete any files.
Get Rid of League of Legends Duplicate Files
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Manual Deletion
The first option you have is of manual deletion. However, manual deletion is a time-consuming process and you will have to search across multiple folders to see if the file is actually a duplicate or not.
The League of Legends folder is available at:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Riot Games\
In this folder, lookout for any duplicate files and then proceed to delete them. Simple enough!
Automated Deletion
Another solution is to use a software program to search for duplicate files in the League of Legends folder. One good example is Clone Files Checker. This software dives deep into the hash of each and every single file it scans. This means that you get information about duplicate data by getting to scan each and every bit of the target data, rather than relying on the manual way of comparing file names and perhaps, file sizes. Simply download Clone Files Checker and install it. Next,
- Locate the location of the League of Legends folder from the green Add button in Step 1.
Clone Files Checker user interface - Next, click Start Search.
- The scan will be up and running and it will conclude within moments. It will lay out the results of the duplicates detected during the scan.
- Select between Fix Wizard (to select a unified course-of-action for all duplicates) and Review & Fix (to select specific actions for different groups of duplicates).
- The basic choice you have to make is between deleting the files permanently or moving them to a specific folder.
- Optionally, you can also create a backup of the data before deleting it. And it is always a good idea to export the list of files that you have deleted in the .csv format by making good use of the in-house feature provided by Clone Files Checker.
