Easily select multiple folders in dupe search

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nas8e9
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Easily select multiple folders in dupe search

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I'm trying to find duplicates in different folders on different drives. This works already by entering multiple folders in the location box or - the easier but restricted way - by enabling Selected Locations (which allows one to select multiple folders in a list). The latter doesn't seem to support the scenario with different folders on different drives, which can't be shown in the same list.

One way to make it easier would be to have the Location selection button (with the ...) show a dialog with checkboxes for each folder, but I've got a funny feeling this would be a lot of work. Is or could there an easier way to select multiple folders in different locations in the tree?

highend
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Re: Easily select multiple folders in dupe search

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Why don't you just use a user button with a
1. Add the current selected path to the clipboard script on left click
2. A "replace all <crlf>s with "|" in the clipboard script on right click?
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nas8e9
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Re: Easily select multiple folders in dupe search

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highend wrote: 12 Jul 2019 15:26 Why don't you just use a user button with a
1. Add the current selected path to the clipboard script on left click
2. A "replace all <crlf>s with "|" in the clipboard script on right click?
Not sure what you mean by clipboard *script*: built-in or somewhere in the forum?

As an aside, I've managed to use searchtemplate() with specific folders in the saved layout for the dupe search, but would like something more generic and easier to use :).

nas8e9
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Re: Easily select multiple folders in dupe search

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Something like this would be perfect:
Select multiple folders.png
Last edited by nas8e9 on 12 Jul 2019 17:14, edited 3 times in total.

highend
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Re: Easily select multiple folders in dupe search

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Not sure what you mean by clipboard *script*: built-in or somewhere in the forum
Scripting commands, copytext and replace()...
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nas8e9
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Re: Easily select multiple folders in dupe search

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highend wrote: 12 Jul 2019 16:56
Not sure what you mean by clipboard *script*: built-in or somewhere in the forum
Scripting commands, copytext and replace()...
Thank you, I'm not much of a scripter myself. A sort of hunt-and-gather script, I'll take a look.

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