Hi.
I could have sworn I saw somewhere that I could select which duplicates would be deleted by certain criteria.
Such as -
"Delete the duplicates that are on "X" drive."
or, if I search for duplicates based on file name only, "Delete duplicates with smaller file size"
Is this true?
Can't find that function anywhere in the duplicate finder window.
Thx
Opus always keeps the first (top) item and marks the rest for deletion so you can change which it keeps by changing the sort order.
ah - ingenious!
if not obvious at first.
Thanks once again
well now I am sad again
when I change the sort order AFTER it has found duplicates, the "marked" files remain the same, and the program finds files which are not 100% name matching as well, which makes my 10,000 file cleanup job impossible.
Thanks though. Still excited about the photo-resizing feature I used last night for the first-time, so I'll be alright.
If you change the sort order click the Select button to re-do the selection. (Or just run the dupe finder again.)
What do you mean by it not finding things which aren't 100% the same name? That should not be possible if you've configured it to search by name. Can you give an example?
I was indeed searching by name, but it would find similar names and not identical names. Which did not serve my needs.
Can you give an example?
I'd have to make a screen movie to capture all the steps I'm going through.
But picture 1 shows the initial search.
Picture 2 shows what happens when I sort by name, and I find a bunch of unrelated - unmatched files in the bottom half of the list.
The whole thing was so bizarre I sorted through and did a lot of deleting manually. Not many left now...
My guess is that the files in the second screenshot are duplicates but the things they are duplicates of are hidden by your configuration. For example, if your window isn't set to show Hidden (or System-Hidden) files and the duplicates have those attributes set then you won't see them.
