Find Duplicate Finder ruotine can be highly improved

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Hi, Opus's "find duplicate finder" routine is incredibly slow. It takes a some minutes even for a few files!
I think you can highly improve this routine like DupeLocater (a freeware program) does.
The right way is to make a preliminary fast search for same-size files and after check MD5-hash within these results only.
Instead, calculating MD5 for all files take a very long time.
Infact, to scan 500 files Opus takes 5 minutes when DupeLocater (a freeware program) takes just 2 seconds!
Best regards.
John, from Italy.

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Doing a much faster size comparison sweep first before hash calculation sounds like a GREAT idea!

3

Yes we will be improving this function in the next major release.

4

I think it could also be improved to give more comparison methods. ie filename, filename and extension, name and size, etc

i sometimes convert images to from jpeg to tiff and want to compare just the filename instead of the extension as well. it would be great if this option was available.

thanks

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Will you add this improved function in Opus 8.3 ?
Thank you very much