Would this "feature" be scheduled for development soon ? The closest I can get to matching the file content is to display the CRC and then sort the list to CRC order. See attached
Find duplicate files with different names
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Thanks Aaron. I'm sure many users would find this feature useful. Removing the filename from any folder comparision will no doubt force the need to compare on CRC + Filesize only. That said, once those 2 conditions are met with 2 files, if the contents 'equal', we have a match. (Just scratching out some rough pseudo specs for your developers. )Comment
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This thread has had 19,940 views. I think it is about time it had priority.Comment
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Thanks Aaron. I did try the view 'Structure | Ignore Folder structure" which showed me 'duplicate' files side by side. Not on the same line of course, but very similar as shown at https://www.scootersoftware.com/vbul...4&d=1422253539
'Duplicates' could be easily seen, although there were over 64,000 files, so I wasn't going to check each one. It would be nice to have left orphans and right orphans show up, disregarding the filename of course.
I did try fdupes, and it did show all the duplicates. Would even be nice if that was 'tweaked' to show 'non duplicates' (orphans).
Thanks for your help.Comment
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Hello,
Were you in a scenario where showing only orphans or excluding them would be useful? If you right click the toolbar you can switch to Toggles mode, which can individually enable/disable different criteria (Left Orphans, Right Orphans, Right Newer, Same, etc) individually. You could show a very specific criteria using this mode, if it's helpful.Aaron P Scooter SoftwareComment
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Thanks Aaron. I did have a look at that after you mentioned it. But as the 2 folders had no filenames that matched on name only, there would basically be a heap of left orphans and right orphans. For now, I have been running fdupes to display the duplicates. I'm expecting that it finds all duplicates, based on CRC/size.Comment
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Yes, that is all that is required. Flat view, no folders, find duplicates by CRC and SIZE.Comment
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Hello,
It's that easy for an initial scan, but gets trickier with outlier cases and internal or external changes to the file content. We don't want to have a tool that gives the impression of a task but has unreliable results. If it were easy, we'd throw it in the application.Aaron P Scooter SoftwareComment
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