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by gaiko
Sat Mar 11, 2017 4:55 pm
Forum: Duplicate Cleaner support
Topic: Search slows down to a standstill every time?
Replies: 4
Views: 11840

Re: Search slows down to a standstill every time?

What version of DC? 4.0.4 Are hard links being counted? No Are you scanning ZIP's? No Are you using Preview? Didn't realize that was an option, I don't think I am. Are the files stored on a network (as opposed to locally)? I have done it on network files but have noticed this issue on local files as...
by gaiko
Fri Mar 10, 2017 12:02 am
Forum: Duplicate Cleaner support
Topic: Search slows down to a standstill every time?
Replies: 4
Views: 11840

Re: Search slows down to a standstill every time?

Not really. Technically yes, the scans finish but they blaze through the 1st 80% or so then gradually get slower and slower and I end up waiting longer for the last 5% of scanning than I did for the first 80%... but it does finish. Thoughts?
by gaiko
Wed Mar 08, 2017 11:24 pm
Forum: Duplicate Cleaner support
Topic: Search slows down to a standstill every time?
Replies: 4
Views: 11840

Search slows down to a standstill every time?

The past few days DC has been starting off fine but then get slower and slower the longer it runs and in many cases never finishes (something like the Dichotomy paradox?). Sometimes it has been with many files, other times quite a few (just a few hundred) large files, I haven't really been following...
by gaiko
Wed Jan 25, 2017 6:25 pm
Forum: Duplicate Cleaner support
Topic: Question and/or feature request, IPTC/GPS dates?
Replies: 3
Views: 8243

Question and/or feature request, IPTC/GPS dates?

I was pleased to see that DC allows one to search based on Digitized date/time (presumabily EXIF) and that has been hugely helpful in getting the majority of dups I have cleaned up, however my collection is well over 50k so that still leaves quite a few files. I was able to find more duplicates usin...