Potential dupes additional info display; feature suggestions
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 6:07 pm
Forgive me if this has already been asked and answered. I couldn't find a thread in a cursory search.
Is it possible to display the actual byte count on possible duplicates, rather than the rounded estimate?
Is it possible to order the files within groups by creation or modified date, so I can quickly choose the earliest version?
Two suggestions for future versions:
1. Make image preview a hover option, rather than having to click. Because not everyone might want it, make it a toggle switch somewhere.
2. Provide the option to add advanced logic to searches. This could bridge the file listing and the folder listing -- which is a great feature. I want to be able to tell the program, "If files in directories in the following list are absolutely identical (name, file size), delete all the duplicates in directories N, NN, NNN.
That may not make much sense -- sorry. For example, I have 30 years' worth of multiple copies of files on various media that I'm working on deduplicating. One drive currently has the images from five different hard drives loaded on it. I have 70,000 potential duplicates identified, and I can pretty much tell from observation the files are true duplicates of each other. Because I'm pretty obsessive about data preservation, I can't just delete a directory unless I can identify that every single file in the selected directory is an actual duplicate of one in another directory.
Is it possible to display the actual byte count on possible duplicates, rather than the rounded estimate?
Is it possible to order the files within groups by creation or modified date, so I can quickly choose the earliest version?
Two suggestions for future versions:
1. Make image preview a hover option, rather than having to click. Because not everyone might want it, make it a toggle switch somewhere.
2. Provide the option to add advanced logic to searches. This could bridge the file listing and the folder listing -- which is a great feature. I want to be able to tell the program, "If files in directories in the following list are absolutely identical (name, file size), delete all the duplicates in directories N, NN, NNN.
That may not make much sense -- sorry. For example, I have 30 years' worth of multiple copies of files on various media that I'm working on deduplicating. One drive currently has the images from five different hard drives loaded on it. I have 70,000 potential duplicates identified, and I can pretty much tell from observation the files are true duplicates of each other. Because I'm pretty obsessive about data preservation, I can't just delete a directory unless I can identify that every single file in the selected directory is an actual duplicate of one in another directory.