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by Spire
Mon Mar 13, 2023 12:07 pm
Forum: Duplicate Cleaner support
Topic: No overflow indicator
Replies: 2
Views: 1861

Re: No overflow indicator

I suggest that you use an actual ellipsis character (…) rather than the three period characters (...) that you used in your post.
by Spire
Thu Apr 07, 2022 2:47 am
Forum: Duplicate Cleaner support
Topic: New request: Change the scrollover highlight color
Replies: 4
Views: 4535

Re: New request: Change the scrollover highlight color

Version 5.0.13 has an alt-highlight color when it is over a group color (different shade of yellow in the light theme). You can also edit these colors in the user theme file. Are you referring to the DC-HighlightAlt key? I can't get it to do anything. It doesn't seem to be working in the custom the...
by Spire
Fri Aug 16, 2019 5:13 am
Forum: Duplicate Cleaner support
Topic: Error: database disk image is malformed
Replies: 16
Views: 29001

Re: Error: database disk image is malformed

I am also not sure, how to understand a fresh database each time that persists. My best guess is that: There is a master database that is opened in read-only mode at the start of each scan. Any new items found during a scan are added to a fresh session database. After the scan is complete, the sess...
by Spire
Thu Aug 15, 2019 10:17 am
Forum: Duplicate Cleaner support
Topic: Error: database disk image is malformed
Replies: 16
Views: 29001

Re: Error: database disk image is malformed

Oh thank goodness. So then what did you mean by using a fresh database for each scan? While I'm here, I have a second question: Does the database ever get pruned of stale entries? If not, it might not be a bad idea to do so. Then again, I don't know how you would deal things like external hard drive...
by Spire
Wed Aug 14, 2019 5:14 pm
Forum: Duplicate Cleaner support
Topic: Error: database disk image is malformed
Replies: 16
Views: 29001

Re: Error: database disk image is malformed

The upcoming version 5 uses a fresh database for each scan, so there are no worries about any historic file corruption from crashes, etc. Please reconsider. I'm a relatively new user, but the persistent database has already saved me countless hours; I consider it to be one of Duplicate Cleaner's mo...