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New duplicate file finder... I am open to features suggestion
mouser:
So beside city_zen's suggestions do you have any other ideas on how to help the software to best determine what to select?
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i think in general some good options might be:
always prefer the parent folder, or always prefer child folder
or when i specify a list of directories to search for dupes, always default to removing the files in later folders and keeping earlier folders.
mouser:
As rjbull pointed out, DoubleKiller is a really good duplicate tool, you might check it out for inspiration:
http://www.bigbangenterprises.de/en/
Jan-S, the developer of DoubleKiller, also hangs out at DonationCoder. :up:
4wd:
1. Possibility of detailed selection of drives and folders to scan/watch - Implemented-city_zen (December 04, 2008, 11:16 PM)
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-AsmDev (December 05, 2008, 08:29 AM)
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A bit late but....
The best interface I ever used for a duplicate finder, (as far as setting up for a search), was Duplicate File Finder 1.1.0.3 by Rashid Hoda, sadly no longer developed but still my main dupe finder.
New duplicate file finder... I am open to features suggestion
Everything you needed to set up a search was on the one window, you could select the folders on the left and they would be listed as you added them in the center-top, filters were immediately selectable below, basic comparison options on top-right, more involved accessed via buttons just below. Sub-directories excluded/included and to what depth, hidden files/folders, etc, etc - all accessed from what I regard as a very well laid out interface.
4. Ability to select only certain file types to be scanned (i.e. only music files, only video files, etc.) - Implemented
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Having only played with DupeTrasher 1.2 Demo, my suggestion is make a way to be able to deselect ALL filters. It's a lot easier to deselect all and then select one than it is to deselect 20 just to leave one.
In Duplicate File Finder you can have multiple wildcards in a filter, (eg. *.jp* will filter *.jpg and *.jpeg), saves having to create multiple filters for similar extensions.
PS. OK, dumb question, what's the magic for adding an image as a thumbnail?
Mine are always attached full sized :(
mouser:
PS. OK, dumb question, what's the magic for adding an image as a thumbnail?
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see here:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=1996.0
Darwin:
4wd - love that GUI myself :Thmbsup:
I like DoubleKiller, but setting it up is a bit of a PITA! I use it *just* infrequently enough to forget its idiosyncracies and have to fiddle around with it for a while before I can get it to return the result in which I am interested.
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