DigitalVolcano Software Support

Hello-

I'm trying to clean up my music library. In many cases, DC thinks it has found a hit but it's actually a false positive. Since I am running many different duplicate analyses on my 10,000 song library, it would be nice if I could somehow indicate to DC that what it thought was a hit, in fact, isn't. That way, I wouldn't have to keep sifting through all those false positives when I run subsequent searches. I can't think how DC could possibly accommodate this but I thought I'd ask.

BTW, cheapskate that I am, I hardly ever upgrade freeware utilities to the paid version. But duplicate files are such a time-consuming headache that in DC's case, I made an exception and upgraded to Pro. I'm so glad I did- this is an exceptionally good, easy-to-use, robust product.

Glad you like it.

Currently the only way I can think of excluding false positives it to rename them (e.g append "_ok" to the filename) and then add an exclusion parameter in Duplicate Cleaner "*_ok.*"
Though of course you may not want to mess up your file names. And duplicates of these excluded files won't be found either.

Agreed, a name change would be the way to go.
Even if you change the file's extension.

So if the false duplicate file was: imnottruelyadup.mp3, rename it to imnottrueladup.mp3.IGNOREME.

Then a Duplicate Cleaner (Audio mode) scan no longer see's an ".mp3", but instead an ".IGNOREME", so it is simply ignored.

Once you've finished all your various scans, simply go back after the fact & rename all *.IGNOREME's to *., which then again makes them "mp3's".

Everything 1.4b Beta makes it a breeze to find all ".IGNOREME's" & then you can even rename them in mass from there too (removing the .IGNOREME extension).
[Select files, Ctrl+A, kind of thing, F2. Experiment ahead of time so you understand how the rename dialog works.]

That approach gives me exactly what I'm looking for- thanks!