qarmin / czkawka

Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc.
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Shortcuts to uncheck files #1018

Open g33khubber opened 1 year ago

g33khubber commented 1 year ago
  1. When highlighting multiple groups of files, there is no easy way to uncheck all within the highlighted region. Is this a bug?
  2. Is there any keyboard shortcut to quickly check/uncheck files?
  3. Even when sorted by folder name, the dupes are all over the place & not in the correct order.
  4. Is "similar images" supposed to be a lot slower than finding dupes? If yes, what's the value of using that?
  5. Why does hash check yield such results where the files are clearly different? https://i.imgur.com/b7ljWHT.png

Thanks!

ghost commented 1 year ago

4) 'similar images' is for finding, for example, the same image saved in two different formats (such as a jpeg and a bmp) or in two different sizes (such as 600x400 and also saved as 1200x800). Yes, it will be slower, because instead of simply hashing the contents to detect exact duplicates it uses some algorithm (I'm not sure which the dev is using) to 'intelligently' 'recognize' the two images as being the 'same' thing. It's like using Tineye or Google Reverse Image Search on your own computer.

5) Are they different? Did you manually check the contents of the file in a hex editor (some can even highlight any differences in the code)? Most likely they are in fact the exact same file used multiple times and given different names for reasons that make sense to the malwarebytes devs. Less likely is a hash collision. Aside from manually inspecting the files, you can also re-run the search using a different hash. It would even more unlikely for a hash collision to occur across multiple algorithms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_collision