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qarmin / czkawka

Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc.
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Select within groups : longest path or shortest path #443

Open willhubs opened 3 years ago

willhubs commented 3 years ago

I find that after doing a recovery, it's difficult to sort through some of the duplicates but I can easily control the length of the path.

If there was a selection choice that allowed you to choose all within groups except the shortest or longest path filename, it would make selecting them easier.

willhubs commented 3 years ago

If czkawka always displays the shortest path first and the longest path last, then a 'select within groups all but first' and 'select within groups all but last' would work as well.

willhubs commented 3 years ago

If czkawka always displays the shortest path first and the longest path last, then a 'select within groups all but first' and 'select within groups all but last' would work as well. After some testing, it doesn't always work out that way

ljhcage commented 3 years ago

Indeed, sometimes longer filename which generated by system to avoid conflict is more accurately

willhubs commented 2 years ago

An example is a bunch of random mismatched music files in: /music

While the organized music is in: /music/A Perfect Circle /music/A Tribe Called Quest /music/ABBA /music/AC/DC /music/AFI /music/Aaron Carter /music/Aaron Hall /music/Aaron Tippin /music/Ace of Base /music/Adam Sandler /music/Aerosmith

The random/unorganized ones would end up with the shortest path, not shortest filename, would end up being in /music Then I could choose> select within groups, all but the longest path, or 1 with the shortest path

Or the opposite, where I would prefer to keep the ones in /music and not the ones in /music/subdirectory Then I could choose> select within groups all but the shortest path, or 1 with the longest path.