Duplicate File Finder is far from good enough....

[Shahab2]

Imagine that Your have 2 folders in his / her HDD. Folder A and Folder B. Both of them contain different subfolders, and files.
Unfortunately you have managed to have some duplicates, which you want to get rid of.
We know that You can locate duplicates with the help of Xyplorer, but I wish Xyplorer could offer a function by which users could select all duplicate files or folders, only in A folder, or only in B folder, so he / she could delete, move etc. them.
For this purpose I use A software called "Alldup".
I wish Xyplorer could offer the same function in the program

[Marco]

Use the selection filter.
From the help:

Selection Filter...
Select a subset of the currently listed items via pattern matching or Regular Expressions (prefix term
with >). The first selected item is automatically focused and scrolled into view.

You can enter more than one wildcard patterns (separated by to select all matching items.

For example: '*.jpg;*.gif;*.png'.

Shortcut: Ctrl+M
Column-wise Selection Filter: You can as well select items by comparing your pattern with *any*
column (not just the Name column). The comparison that results in selections on a match is a case-
insensitive string comparison (not a number or date comparison). To select by columns other than the
name column, simply prefix the pattern with '[column name]:' Note: the column identification is case-
insensitive (e.g. 'type' works for the Type column), and there's no space after ":".

Examples (results partly depend on the column display format):

size:? KB -> selects all items < 10 KB

modified:*2006* -> selects all items modified in year 2006

type:vis* -> selects all items of type starting with "vis"

len:2?? -> selects all items with a filename >= 200 characters

The name column is the default, so "name:" can be omitted. If you type an invalid column name, the
name column will be used.

The column prefix can be partial. If no column is identical to the prefix, then the first column with a
partial match (from beginning: "Modified" matches "mod*") is used.

Limiting the selections to files or folders: You can restrict the selections to files or folders by
attaching one of the following prefixes to the pattern:

*: => select files only

\: => select folders only
Examples:

new* Select all items starting with "new"

*:>new* Select all files starting with "new"

\:>new* Select all folders starting with "new"
Also works with RegExp:

>^new Select all items starting with "new" (RegExp)

*:>^new Select all files starting with "new" (RegExp)


Main Menu / Edit 161

\:>^new Select all folders starting with "new" (RegExp)
The prefix *: or \: must precede any other prefix:

*:!>^new Select all files NOT starting with "new" (RegExp)

*:!type:doc Select all files where the Type does NOT have "doc"

Adding to / removing from the current selections: You can add to or remove from the current
selections very easily:

- Hold CTRL while clicking OK in the Selection Filter dialog = Add matches to the current selections.

- Hold SHIFT while clicking OK in the Selection Filter dialog = Remove matches from the current
selections.