find unique folders in to different path

[calude]

hi
searching for unique folders names in two supposedly mirrored folder structures on two different drives.
used invert dupes; attributes: directory; and the 2 path separated by semi column in location.

to no avail. !!

some clues ??

Calude

[highend]

Maybe a bug...

Name & Location:
Name: *
Location: D:\Tools\@Command Line Tools\@Docs;U:\test\@Docs
Auto sync = unchecked

Attributes:
Directory = checked

Dupes:
Name = checked

Both folders contain absolutely the same content. A few subfolders with files in them

It doesn't find anything...

[admin]

Hmm... ... I'll check that.

[admin]

Quoting Help:

The Dupes filter finds only files, no folders. Equally the Invert option will return only singular files.

[highend]

Finding dupes of folders would be useful as well (imho)...

[admin]

Finding dupes of folders would be useful as well (imho)...

You mean dupes by name?

[highend]

Yeah, if it's easy to add.

[admin]

This was done about 5 days after the Dupes filter was first introduced. Unfortunately I'm not sure WHY it was done ATM:

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v11.50.0008 - 2012-09-02 16:35
    * Duplicate File Finder: From now on ONLY files are returned. 
      Before, the Name-only check would also return folders. 

[Enternal]

It was probably added because normally you try to find dupes of files to recover space but not folders since many folders could have similar names but extremely different content? Although it does seem useful if you need to find similar named files and folders too.

[admin]

It would be easy to add, but it would complicate the documentation (and even changes in the interface would be necessary -- 18 translations...), and probably not everybody wants it. So: I rather leave it as it is.

PS: I had an idea. Next beta:

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    + Duplicate File Finder: Before, the dupe finder would only find files, no 
      folders. Now you can also find duplicate folders by Name and Date. Simply 
      tick Directory in the Find Files | Attributes tab, and the dupe finder 
      will look for folders instead of files.
      So now you got a fast way to compare directory trees, e.g. supposedly 
      mirrored folder structures on two different drives.

[calude]

the OP's idea! but whatever, I thank you


Calude

PS: I had an idea. Next beta:

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    + Duplicate File Finder: Before, the dupe finder would only find files, no 
      folders. Now you can also find duplicate folders by Name and Date. Simply 
      tick Directory in the Find Files | Attributes tab, and the dupe finder 
      will look for folders instead of files.
      So now you got a fast way to compare directory trees, e.g. supposedly 
      mirrored folder structures on two different drives.

[highend]

And I just wrote a quick folder compare script that outputs unique folders^^

[admin]

the OP's idea!

My idea was to make your idea work.