i've got a network with a number of drives which already contain dups from my duplicating habit! suppose i want to CHECK one of each group from storage Drive OLD (soon to be retired) to eventually transfer onto my new and central Drive X. i check one in each group and move them to a non-duplicates to be transfered folder on the desktop/C drive. what happens to all the duplicates i did not check. do they vanish because i did not send them to the recycle bin?
also while searching new, centralo DRive X for duplicates i had a windows explorer window open and noticed Drive X actually had a number of duplicate FOLDERS that were not being found by the Duplicate Cleaner program. is this because Duplicate Cleaner finds FILES (which may have been contained within but were not visable) and NOT FOLDERS?
thanks!
Sunr, newbie
pretty silly basic question but...
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Fool4UAnyway
Re: select ONLY one item and folder compare
Duplicate Cleaner handles the checked items as you choose to. It will leave unchecked items alone.
It's an interesting use to select ONLY one item from each group and move those elsewhere. The Selection Assistent has options to select ALL BUT ONE items to easily achieve single files to be left in (one of) the searched locations.
You may have a hard time selection ONLY one item in each group if you search in more than two folders.
Perhaps the option to always at least keep the files in a specified folder can useful to you.
For finding duplicate folder (structure)s, you may use a directory comparison tool, to compare them pair by pair.
It's an interesting use to select ONLY one item from each group and move those elsewhere. The Selection Assistent has options to select ALL BUT ONE items to easily achieve single files to be left in (one of) the searched locations.
You may have a hard time selection ONLY one item in each group if you search in more than two folders.
Perhaps the option to always at least keep the files in a specified folder can useful to you.
For finding duplicate folder (structure)s, you may use a directory comparison tool, to compare them pair by pair.
Re: pretty silly basic question but...
shouldnt the keep one feature work on all settings, which is currently doesnt
i wanted to select files which had duplicates in the same folder as well as other duplicates found in other folders, but when i click select all in this folder, all the files, originals and duplicates get selected. surely the keep 1 feature should keep one of the 2 files if they are both in the same folder
just did a scan of 600,000 files of which 14,000 where duplicates, took a long time,
but i found some of the dups where in the same folder, and everything else like creation time, modified time was the same only 1 thing was different filename with a _1 added. but i also had some other files in another folder which also had duplicates in the same folder so i choose select this folder and checked before clicking delete, only to find that the every files orinials and dups which are in that folder where also selected. which kind of makes this program USELESS. I would have thought it would have left 1 of the files of each set, which is how NOCLONE works.
aka when you select all files, and those files are in 1 folder, it marks only 1 for deletion.
Just wondering how many files i've lost due to this before realizing it. Ah well back to using the slower Noclone until this is either fixed or made a proper feature, in case your wondering i have 6Tb of storage i need to scan for duplicates.
i wanted to select files which had duplicates in the same folder as well as other duplicates found in other folders, but when i click select all in this folder, all the files, originals and duplicates get selected. surely the keep 1 feature should keep one of the 2 files if they are both in the same folder
just did a scan of 600,000 files of which 14,000 where duplicates, took a long time,
but i found some of the dups where in the same folder, and everything else like creation time, modified time was the same only 1 thing was different filename with a _1 added. but i also had some other files in another folder which also had duplicates in the same folder so i choose select this folder and checked before clicking delete, only to find that the every files orinials and dups which are in that folder where also selected. which kind of makes this program USELESS. I would have thought it would have left 1 of the files of each set, which is how NOCLONE works.
aka when you select all files, and those files are in 1 folder, it marks only 1 for deletion.
Just wondering how many files i've lost due to this before realizing it. Ah well back to using the slower Noclone until this is either fixed or made a proper feature, in case your wondering i have 6Tb of storage i need to scan for duplicates.
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Fool4UAnyway
Re: searching within = across multiple folders
When you select your folders to search in for duplicates, this is treated as one set of locations where you want to find duplicates with the intention to keep at least one of them.
If you want to keep only unique files within each folder, you should perform a separate scan for each individual folder.
That's how it currently works.
Of course, it would be convenient if you could perform this operation of serial processing of individual folders in one pass.
I wrote a message with similar requests, I believe. The operation and the Selection Assistant could be improved to allow a number of "expert" operations that would make multiple manual operations unnecessary.
If you want to keep only unique files within each folder, you should perform a separate scan for each individual folder.
That's how it currently works.
Of course, it would be convenient if you could perform this operation of serial processing of individual folders in one pass.
I wrote a message with similar requests, I believe. The operation and the Selection Assistant could be improved to allow a number of "expert" operations that would make multiple manual operations unnecessary.
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Fool4UAnyway
Re: searching within = across multiple folders
To be specific: Duplicate Cleaner helps you find all duplicates of a file with the intention to leave 1 and only 1 of them in 1 single location.
If you still want to be able to access the individual file from all folders, you might want to create hard links to that 1 file. However, this works on all the duplicates, so it doesn't transparently remove anything. The only difference would be that the file duplicates are physically stored only once and just occupy 1 time its file size, instead of the number of duplicates found.
Here are some (other) improvement suggestions of mine:
"Match files by same folder / directory"
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=705
If you still want to be able to access the individual file from all folders, you might want to create hard links to that 1 file. However, this works on all the duplicates, so it doesn't transparently remove anything. The only difference would be that the file duplicates are physically stored only once and just occupy 1 time its file size, instead of the number of duplicates found.
Here are some (other) improvement suggestions of mine:
"Match files by same folder / directory"
viewtopic.php?f=4&t=705