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find unique folders in to different path
Posted: 28 Nov 2014 21:27
by 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
Re: find unique folders in to different path
Posted: 28 Nov 2014 21:41
by 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...
Re: find unique folders in to different path
Posted: 29 Nov 2014 09:29
by admin
Hmm...
... I'll check that.
Re: find unique folders in to different path
Posted: 29 Nov 2014 17:12
by admin
Quoting Help:
The Dupes filter finds only files, no folders. Equally the Invert option will return only singular files.
Re: find unique folders in to different path
Posted: 29 Nov 2014 17:32
by highend
Finding dupes of folders would be useful as well (imho)...
Re: find unique folders in to different path
Posted: 29 Nov 2014 17:34
by admin
highend wrote:Finding dupes of folders would be useful as well (imho)...
You mean dupes by name?
Re: find unique folders in to different path
Posted: 29 Nov 2014 17:41
by highend
Yeah, if it's easy to add.
Re: find unique folders in to different path
Posted: 29 Nov 2014 17:43
by 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.
Re: find unique folders in to different path
Posted: 29 Nov 2014 21:32
by 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.
Re: find unique folders in to different path
Posted: 30 Nov 2014 11:40
by 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.
Re: find unique folders in to different path
Posted: 30 Nov 2014 13:09
by calude
the OP's idea! but whatever, I thank you
Calude
admin wrote: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.
Re: find unique folders in to different path
Posted: 30 Nov 2014 13:11
by highend
And I just wrote a quick folder compare script that outputs unique folders^^
Re: find unique folders in to different path
Posted: 30 Nov 2014 13:39
by admin
calude wrote:the OP's idea!
My idea was to make your idea work.
