DigitalVolcano Software Support

Duplicate Cleaner Pro

finds duplicates based on the hash. They are downloaded images.

Within each group one file starts with a specific word (e.g. 'donot remove, or 'keep'', or whatever)
Q: how to select inverse select files that start with, or contain, a specific text string.

In my case, select all duplicates that do not start with 'Keep'.

Note: I can't use the option to invert select based on longest filename.

Thanks.

You could use the 'Mark by text' tool with a regular expression -
(this is probably case sensitive)

Then invert the marked files (Selection Assistant).

Wonderful!
Thank you very much indeed for the quick reply.
Obviously (being new to Duplicate Cleaner) I wasn't aware of this option.

I used this 'keep'-option and probably for more than 95% it works fine, really.

Duplicate Cleaner 'warns' that all duplicates within 1 group may also be deleted (duplicate files -not- having the 'keep' word).
DC shows them with an exclamation mark, like these:



I hardly dare to ask but is there a way to also keep 1 of them at the same time as with using this 'keep' option.
If not, no problem, I'll deselect them one by one.

Thanks again!

You may have to filter the groups will all marked (there's a filter to do this) and then unselect them manually if there isnt too many

Found it, many thanks again.