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Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc.
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Selecting custom path with the "Select Custom" feature doesn't scan the subfolders, meaning nothing gets selected. #785

Open Kristijan1001 opened 2 years ago

Kristijan1001 commented 2 years ago

Basally if i want to select a path containing multiple folders only. Doing the Custom Path in "Select Custom" doesn't work. I need to do 1 folder at a time instead of just selecting the prior folder and the program scanning all the sub folders.

qarmin commented 2 years ago

Wildcard is supported so `/home/user/will select all paths like/home/user/bb/bbb/ccc` Is there any problem with this?

Kristijan1001 commented 2 years ago

I will try it thanks. Is there something where it can show me if i am deleting all file instances. For example i was using DupTeminator prior to this and lets say u have 3 files they are all the same. Selecting all 3 files in DupTerminator will mark them as RED because you are deleting all the files and not leaving one original one. Selecting 2 of them and leaving 1 up wont mark them as red.

ivantyr commented 2 years ago

Would the wildcard work for searching an entire drive from the root folder? I find that in v5.0 I cannot add the root of a drive as a folder to search, need to select a folder from the root to search

qarmin commented 2 years ago

GTK 4 have bug(which is fixed in master branch I think) that not allows to save path of currently opened item. The only option is to choose directory from parent folder or paste full path to dialog opened by "Manual Add" button

ghost commented 2 years ago

Directories: Wildcards in path are not supported, ignoring ⁨Z:*⁩ Directories: Wildcards in path are not supported, ignoring ⁨D:*⁩

BloodyRain2k commented 1 week ago

I've never gotten the "Select Custom" feature to work on my Debian. I was hoping that the version 8 release would've fixed it, because until recently I've been using 6.1, but sadly not.

None of the 3 options work: image Doesn't matter where I enter it, even in Regex (obviously changed to /Debian_old/ instead) it just doesn't select anything.

But interestingly enough, "Unselect Custom" does work (in 6.1 as well). I just don't want to select everything first and then deselect things.

Edit: ok I've figured my problem out by accident... Since I do the majority of my searches with at least 1 reference directory, I've rarely had more than A1 <-> B1 result sets. Having used exclusively CloneSpy in the past, I've come to see such a set as a "group", but Czkawka in reference mode sees each collection of A and each collection of B as separate groups, even if they are all a single similar file. That made me never consider that the checkbox "Don't select all records in group" could be the issue for me. If I uncheck that it works as expected.

The reason I figured it out now was because I've had for the first time a A1 <-> Bn group, and when trying out the "Select Custom" function it suddenly selected some entries. And the rest was looking at what was selected and what wasn't and putting 2 and 2 together.