Is it possible to select entire Groups to be marked?
For example, I initially set the selection assistant to mark all files but one in each group. Then after reviewing my files are quite a few GROUPS that have photos where I'd like to mark ALL files in that GROUP.
SPECIFIC example: Group 1571 through 1597 have files where I'd like to mark ALL FILES within each group.
I have been unable to find the specific command to MARK all files found in GROUP.
Can someone assist?
Selecting entire groups to be marked
Re: Selecting entire groups to be marked
In general, I'm not seeing a way particularly.
But if they were contiguous sets of files, you could highlight the first, then Shift+click the last & then hit the <spacebar>, that would select that entire set of files.
Likewise, you could do the opposite.
If there only a small set of files you wanted to exclude (from deletion), you could select that small set, the same way, then use the Invert marked files button to... invert the marks, so your wanted excludes would then be excluded, & everything else would then up included (for deletion).
Now, something like that is really going to depend on what your search results look like, but in particular circumstances, it might do the trick.
But if they were contiguous sets of files, you could highlight the first, then Shift+click the last & then hit the <spacebar>, that would select that entire set of files.
Likewise, you could do the opposite.
If there only a small set of files you wanted to exclude (from deletion), you could select that small set, the same way, then use the Invert marked files button to... invert the marks, so your wanted excludes would then be excluded, & everything else would then up included (for deletion).
Now, something like that is really going to depend on what your search results look like, but in particular circumstances, it might do the trick.
Re: Selecting entire groups to be marked
bsacco,
Because the purpose of the application is to remove Duplicates, marking all files in a group goes against the logic.
However, if you simply don't want to keep them, do this:
1: Mark all but one file in each group.
2: Filter to 'Group has mark'.
3: Select all filtered files.
4: Right-click and 'Mark all selected'.
Because the purpose of the application is to remove Duplicates, marking all files in a group goes against the logic.
However, if you simply don't want to keep them, do this:
1: Mark all but one file in each group.
2: Filter to 'Group has mark'.
3: Select all filtered files.
4: Right-click and 'Mark all selected'.