It struck me how much space duplicates occupy only after I stumbled upon a full 256GB SSD drive that seemed mostly empty. It had files from old backups, cloud sync folders, and nested project ...
If your Mac is running low on storage, chances are that duplicate files and photos occupy a significant part of it. If the number is low, you can get away by performing a manual search, a terminal ...
So, it recently came to my attention that Dropbox for Android, when syncing files, automatically renames all photos and videos to a datetime stamp, not preserving the original filenames as they exist ...