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[Feature] Deduplicator: bulk operations rules #1387

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Coldblackice opened this issue Sep 7, 2024 · 1 comment
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[Feature] Deduplicator: bulk operations rules #1387

Coldblackice opened this issue Sep 7, 2024 · 1 comment
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c: Deduplicator enhancement New feature, request, improvement or optimization

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@Coldblackice
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The Deduplicator is an awesome tool. But when there are many result duplicates to decide on, it can become a long process deciding every deduplication action manually (when a "Delete-All" operation can't be trusted).

This could be greatly assisted by some additional functionality:

  • Ability to set (and/or apply) bulk file-operation rules on results, e.g.:
    • Delete oldest duplicates
    • Delete all but newest duplicate
    • Delete all duplicates within X\Y\Z path
    • Delete duplicates with *X* in filename
    • If all duplicates reside in the same folder, auto-delete.... _____.
  • Ability to export results list to CSV,/TXT (for sorting/analyzing result list externally to find path/location patterns of duplicates' locations)
  • Regex capability
  • Ability to save Deduplicator results sessions, for later actioning/reviewing (searches can take a long time depending on storage size, meaning actioning the results may not happen till next day, which app may lose results by that point due to battery/reboots/etc)

Out of the above suggestions, most helpful and desired would be the first, since it'd enable the ability to automate much of the deduplication decisions/processing.

As an example, I have hundreds of duplicates to process. I can't allow a bulk delete-all operation since there are varied result locations, many of which folders I don't want to be the sole holder of a file, e.g. files in any directories containing "cache" in their path, nor keep any duplicates in *\data\com.*? folders, etc.

@Coldblackice Coldblackice added enhancement New feature, request, improvement or optimization triage This ticket needs to be sorted and labeled. labels Sep 7, 2024
@d4rken d4rken added c: Deduplicator and removed triage This ticket needs to be sorted and labeled. labels Sep 7, 2024
@noahfriedman
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Please also display timestamps, it's helpful in deciding which copy to remove.

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