# Step 5. Remove selected duplicates

The Remove button of Gemini may start one the following processes, depending its Preferences:

- Remove to your Trash folder (default setting)
- Move to a specified folder (requires defining a folder)
- Complete removal

See Gemini 2 Preferences: Removal to find out more about removal options.

By default, Gemini moves all selected files to Trash so that you could restore them later. However, some external disks don’t have a Trash folder to move files to. In this case, Gemini warns you that items can be removed only permanently.

Start the removal: Click Remove in the bottom right hand corner.

Stop the removal: Click Stop while on the removal progress screen.

Note: The Photos application does not allow other applications to remove its files. Therefore, Gemini adds all duplicates into the ‘Gemini Duplicates’ album of your Photos library so that you could complete the removal manually.
All you need to do is open the ‘Gemini Duplicates’ album, select all files within it, and delete them as regular Photos images. Please note that you don’t need to remove the folder itself – only its contents.

See also:

- Detailed results
- Gemini 2 Preferences: General
- Gemini 2 Preferences: Removal