some general suggestions and issues

[wat]

all right, to round off the walls of text I've already posted, here's some general stuff I noticed or thought of.

issues:

1. - F2 hotkey to start renaming seems still broken

2. - Image Preview (heh, again? found more issues!) does not update when using PgUp/PgDown/Home/End keys


suggestions:

3. - add menu entries (hotkeys Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V and Ctrl+Ins / Shift+Ins) to quickly copy / paste filenames without having to use "Rename File..." from the context menu (or F2 if it wasn't broken, heh) - right now copying a name from one file to another requires quite a lot of keyboard and mouse work.

4. - make Enter key View/Execute the highlighted file

5. - permanently move the group number to the first column, it's (relatively) short anyway

6. - warn the user immediately when all files in a group are flagged for deletion, but not in a way that requires immediate action like a popup... ideally: recolor entries for obvious, instant, unintrusive feedback - or make them bold. (other ways that would work but are needlessly fancy: add some clickable indicator in the status bar that leads to a list of affected dupe groups, or one that makes the result table jump to the first affected dupe group and then cycles through them...)

7. - display the full filename of the selected file in the status bar or elsewhere, would help in the case of very long filenames

8. - recolor list entries upon file removal and sorting (black if the sorting scheme tends to break up dupe groups, like name, date, path; alternating red and blue if dupe groups are preserved, like group number and hash (and possibly size))


and some fluff:

10. - move view/execute to the top of the context menu (and make it bold if you can)

11. - consider adding some misc info to the image preview (ohnoes not again) like... file name, format, resolution? file attributes? full EXIF data? sky's the limit, it's up to your creativity.

12. - "open containing folder in explorer" -> some programs also make Explorer highlight the file in the new Explorer window when doing stuff like this, you might want to figure out how they do that - especially for 2.0

13. - make the image preview window (and optionally the main window) remember its position

14. - maybe (big maybe) allow direct deletion of files from the result table (hotkeys Del -> send to recycle bin / Shift+Del -> delete) (would be nice to be able to remove files immediately, but I guess this kind of clashes with 8 and I'm not completely sure how useful it would be)


as stated previously, ask if clarification is needed, nice program, etc etc.

[DV]

1) Will check...
2) Will make sure this works in 2.0.
3) interesting - is copying and pasting filenames between files a common task?
4) OK
5) I had thought about this, but I like the filename being tied to the checkbox - hopefully the quick column show/hide options should help.
6) I plan to add in something like this before release but haven't settled in how it should work.
7) Will try this
8) Dynamic recolouring is implemented in 2.0

10) Will experiment
11) Image tags in the preview are implemented in 2.0
12) This is implemented (it might even work in 1.4.7 if i remeber right?)
13) Will check this.
14) I might look at having some kind of 'quickie' deletion like this.

Thanks for all your suggestions! I'm still want to release a beta around the month end - need to get busy!

[zer0nix]

re: # 3
another easy trigger to consider is 'click, hold X nanoseconds and release' to select the file name for renaming, just as in windows.

i can't speak for anyone else but it's a pretty common task for me to rename and move many duplicate files i find.

another suggestion could be to add a file moving function similar to the one found in *acdsee, except that ideally, all the moving would happen altogether just like file deletion.

rather than selecting from a right click menu for this, i think it would be intuitive to activate this function by 'click-hold & release'ing on the file's path.

*(a window pops up with a text entry box for manually typing in the destination, a selectable tree can be opened under that and last is a long, selectable list of previously selected destinations, with the most recently used destinations listed first.)

[chambo]

Using version 1.4.7 there is a display pb. I mean, when I try to delete the selection, on the windows asking me to confirm it, the total size of the files which will be deleted is not visible. The size is hidden by the process bar.
Thanks a lot in advance.

[Rog�rio]

Enter PAUSE (besides the STOP button) to allow free the resources of the machine at some point you want and then resume the process where it left off without losing anything.

[DV]

I plan to add pause/save in a future version. For now, clicking stop will bring up the 'Are you sure?' type dialog box. At this point the scanning is paused, freeing up CPU resources. You can continue by clicking 'no'.

[Adrian]

Duplicate Cleaner 2.0 doesn't find any duplicates - same content, same size, same date (except 0 byte files). DC 1.4.0.7 finds hundreds on the same drive!

[DV]

Adrian - DC1.4.7 uses modified date. you may have tried Created date duplicates in 2.0 - try modified. 'Created Date' exact duplicates seem rarer, as this date is changed when a file is copied (modified stays the same)

[esplanade]

Duplicate Cleaner 2.0 doesn't find duplicates with same created dates because it is shifting/recording/using the created date by 1sec especially if it is odd e.g 11:48:47 becomes 11:48:48 -- it works ok with modified date...

[esplanade]

Further observation regarding Duplicate Cleaner 2.0 created date issue: There seems to be an offset of +52:50 [mm:ss] applied to the date modified time as displayed by Duplicate Cleaner, when using date modified option. Using date created shows no results...! I have taken screenshots showing these results.