If we only allowed ranking of the folders in the "Find In" list, and something like your screenshot came from searching below D:\tmp (and not the folders below it individually) then that wouldn't solve things. We (as in GPSoft) would need to understand better how people are aiming to use the tool first, I think.Į.g. Some way of ranking or including/excluding specific folders might make sense, since this does come up a lot. You should be able to use the Edit > Select By Pattern > Advanced to deselect all files below a certain path if the aim is to avoid deleting anything in one folder and only remove duplicates that exist in other folders. If you want to only be left with one folder that contains all the files and no duplicates, and no folders containing only some files and missing others, wouldn't you want to move all the files into a single folder before or after deleting the duplicates? Or is the aim something different? I may just not have thought of the right goal here and I might be assuming you're doing something different. That seems inherent to deleting duplicates? this little trick with protected paths, maybe it's possible in DO as well some day! o)īut once you have multiple folders, the result of a possible deletion of all the duplicates would give you a bigger mess than before!? I told the user that DO is a multi purpose tool and that for very specific tasks, a very specific tool is required and that DO cannot be as specific in every part as specialized tools are. In the german forum we also discussed this recently. If you could protect files in specific paths from being selected, this would give a way better and very convenient result. I made a little screenshot, as you can see, DO selects files randomly from the three folders I told it to look for duplicates in. You'd end up with a lot of folders containing only a subset of your files, probably not what most people are after. Yes, you can try by sorting the location/path column and rerun the find, but once you have multiple folders, the result of a possible deletion of all the duplicates would give you a bigger mess than before!? I used the duplicate file finder a few times only, but I also came across this problem.īeing able to protect files in specific paths from being selected/deletion would be really good.
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