partial folders duplicated under themselves - cleanup?

[kduffey]

A wonder child in our finance department duplicated the root folder under itself and it seems some files in the duplicated may have changed after the dups were created

so
\ABC
\ABC\ABC (and all subfolders)

I have run the duplicates and see the files and folders that are duplicated. (143K files, please dont say mark manually)

How can I Delete all files duplicated in \ABC\ABC while MOVING changed or non-duplicates to \ABC

In the end the perfect thing would be \ABC\ABC is empty (dupes deleted, rest moved)

I looked at the wand and the heart features under the file list and am not sure which/or how to use these.

-Kevin

[therube]

(I'm assuming you're not looking at Duplicate Folders, because I've never really understood that...)


Selection Assistant -> Select by Location (Ctrl+L)
=> Preserve files in this path...: \ABC
& uncheck, Include Subfolders of this path.

Triple check your results.
Filters Marked: should help.


As far as MOVING, I don't think that's going to be a function of Duplicate Cleaner.
After the duplicates are removed, I'd use Everything & a decent file manager.
Use Everything to enumerate all files in subdirectories to \ABC.
Cut them & paste them all (assuming there are not name duplicates) into some temporary folder.
Then use your file manager to move all the files from that temporary folder into \ABC.
(You could do that directly cut from subdirectories & paste into \ABC, but IMO Windows doesn't handle file name conflicts very well.)

Everything Search Engine. (I'd use the 1.4 Beta.)