Duplicate files · Duplicates basics
Do files with the same name count as duplicates?
Short answer: No. Storage Studio only groups files whose contents are exactly the same, so two different files that happen to share a name are never shown as duplicates. Copies with different names are grouped if their contents match.
No. A shared name isn't enough — Storage Studio only groups files whose contents are exactly the same. Two documents both called "Report.docx" with different text inside are different files, and removing one would lose work, so they're never shown as a set.
The reverse also holds: copies with completely different names ("IMG_2041.jpg" and "Beach.jpg") are grouped together if their contents match.
If you expected a pair to appear and it didn't, check whether either file is under 1 MB — by default smaller files aren't compared. See why a small file wasn't checked.