Text Exclusion (Wildcards not working)

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Text Exclusion (Wildcards not working)

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I have a file system where I keep multiple versions of the same files with descriptors inside parentheses at the end.
Exp.

Filename (type) (version) (date)
Filename2 (type) (version) (date)

I have multiple versions of these with the same Filenames and am hoping to clean up my system using all dupe. Since there can be any number of descriptors inside the parentheses, and inside the parentheses are constantly different I am running into issues using the ignore text patterns.

I have tried multiple different ways based off the wildcards for text. Whenever I try to exclude the text pattern " (*)" I get 0 duplicate results.

I have only seen success if I include an exact match such as "(v1.1)/ (client name)" ect.

I am not sure what I am doing wrong any help would be appreciated.

From the text wildcard page this is exactly what I want to do but instead of "a*a" I need it to be "(*)"
TYPE OF CORRESPONDENCE TEXT CORRESPONDENCE NO CORRESPONDENCE
Several characters a*a aa, aBa, aBBBa aBC
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Re: Text Exclusion (Wildcards not working)

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file name: Filename (type) (version) (date)
filter text: * (*) (*) (*)
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Re: Text Exclusion (Wildcards not working)

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I just tried that and no matches came up. If it was because there are different number of descriptors could I also tried "* (*" and " (*".

7/4/2020 12:40:58 PM - INFO: Unable to detect the VLC Media Player 32-bit version 3 on your system
7/4/2020 12:40:59 PM - --------------------------------------------------
7/4/2020 12:40:59 PM - AllDup 4.4.34
7/4/2020 12:40:59 PM - Search method: File name
7/4/2020 12:40:59 PM - Comparison method: Compare all characters of a file name
7/4/2020 12:40:59 PM - Option: Ignore text patterns from the file name "* (*) (*)"
7/4/2020 12:40:59 PM - 1.Source folder: C:\Users\Andy\Desktop\Old Pictures\Originals\Tokyo
7/4/2020 12:40:59 PM - Option: Compare only files within the same source folder
7/4/2020 12:40:59 PM - Folder filter activated: 7
7/4/2020 12:40:59 PM - Filter type: Exclusive
7/4/2020 12:40:59 PM - 1.folder filter: c:\windows
7/4/2020 12:40:59 PM - 2.folder filter: c:\program files (x86)
7/4/2020 12:40:59 PM - 3.folder filter: c:\program files
7/4/2020 12:40:59 PM - 4.folder filter: ?:\system volume information
7/4/2020 12:40:59 PM - 5.folder filter: ?:\recycled
7/4/2020 12:40:59 PM - 6.folder filter: ?:\recycler
7/4/2020 12:40:59 PM - 7.folder filter: ?:\$recycle.bin
7/4/2020 12:40:59 PM - Determine file count of all source folders...
7/4/2020 12:41:00 PM - File count: 2,761
7/4/2020 12:41:00 PM - Scan: C:\Users\Andy\Desktop\Old Pictures\Originals\Tokyo
7/4/2020 12:41:00 PM - Scanned files: 2,761
7/4/2020 12:41:00 PM - File comparison count: 2,761
7/4/2020 12:41:00 PM - 1 folders and 2761 files were searched but no duplicates found.
7/4/2020 12:41:00 PM - Elapsed time: 00:00:00

If I use the exact descriptors and not wildcards
7/4/2020 12:43:54 PM - INFO: Unable to detect the VLC Media Player 32-bit version 3 on your system
7/4/2020 12:43:55 PM - --------------------------------------------------
7/4/2020 12:43:55 PM - AllDup 4.4.34
7/4/2020 12:43:55 PM - Search method: File name
7/4/2020 12:43:55 PM - Comparison method: Compare all characters of a file name
7/4/2020 12:43:55 PM - Option: Ignore text patterns from the file name " (Japan)/ (Rev 1)/ (Rev 2)"
7/4/2020 12:43:55 PM - 1.Source folder: C:\Users\Andy\Desktop\Old Pictures\Originals\Tokyo
7/4/2020 12:43:55 PM - Option: Compare only files within the same source folder
7/4/2020 12:43:55 PM - Folder filter activated: 7
7/4/2020 12:43:55 PM - Filter type: Exclusive
7/4/2020 12:43:55 PM - 1.folder filter: c:\windows
7/4/2020 12:43:55 PM - 2.folder filter: c:\program files (x86)
7/4/2020 12:43:55 PM - 3.folder filter: c:\program files
7/4/2020 12:43:55 PM - 4.folder filter: ?:\system volume information
7/4/2020 12:43:55 PM - 5.folder filter: ?:\recycled
7/4/2020 12:43:55 PM - 6.folder filter: ?:\recycler
7/4/2020 12:43:55 PM - 7.folder filter: ?:\$recycle.bin
7/4/2020 12:43:55 PM - Determine file count of all source folders...
7/4/2020 12:43:55 PM - File count: 2,761
7/4/2020 12:43:55 PM - Scan: C:\Users\Andy\Desktop\Old Pictures\Originals\Tokyo
7/4/2020 12:43:55 PM - Found 168 duplicates with a total of 613.83 MB inside folder 'C:\Users\Andy\Desktop\Old Pictures\Originals\Tokyo'
7/4/2020 12:43:55 PM - Scanned files: 2,761
7/4/2020 12:43:55 PM - Groups: 82
7/4/2020 12:43:55 PM - File comparison count: 2,761
7/4/2020 12:43:55 PM - Duplicates: 168 (6%) (613.83 MB)
7/4/2020 12:43:55 PM - Elapsed time: 00:00:00

and if I was just to do " (*)"
7/4/2020 12:45:43 PM - INFO: Unable to detect the VLC Media Player 32-bit version 3 on your system
7/4/2020 12:45:43 PM - --------------------------------------------------
7/4/2020 12:45:43 PM - AllDup 4.4.34
7/4/2020 12:45:43 PM - Search method: File name
7/4/2020 12:45:43 PM - Comparison method: Compare all characters of a file name
7/4/2020 12:45:44 PM - Option: Ignore text patterns from the file name " (*)"
7/4/2020 12:45:44 PM - 1.Source folder: C:\Users\Andy\Desktop\Old Pictures\Originals\Tokyo
7/4/2020 12:45:44 PM - Option: Compare only files within the same source folder
7/4/2020 12:45:44 PM - Folder filter activated: 7
7/4/2020 12:45:44 PM - Filter type: Exclusive
7/4/2020 12:45:44 PM - 1.folder filter: c:\windows
7/4/2020 12:45:44 PM - 2.folder filter: c:\program files (x86)
7/4/2020 12:45:44 PM - 3.folder filter: c:\program files
7/4/2020 12:45:44 PM - 4.folder filter: ?:\system volume information
7/4/2020 12:45:44 PM - 5.folder filter: ?:\recycled
7/4/2020 12:45:44 PM - 6.folder filter: ?:\recycler
7/4/2020 12:45:44 PM - 7.folder filter: ?:\$recycle.bin
7/4/2020 12:45:44 PM - Determine file count of all source folders...
7/4/2020 12:45:44 PM - File count: 2,761
7/4/2020 12:45:44 PM - Scan: C:\Users\Andy\Desktop\Old Pictures\Originals\Tokyo
7/4/2020 12:45:44 PM - Scanned files: 2,761
7/4/2020 12:45:44 PM - File comparison count: 2,761
7/4/2020 12:45:44 PM - 1 folders and 2761 files were searched but no duplicates found.
7/4/2020 12:45:44 PM - Elapsed time: 00:00:01
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Re: Text Exclusion (Wildcards not working)

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Sorry, i got it wrong.
I thought you want to filter files.
The filter text from my last post was for the text filter.

Ignoring text patterns allows only text. See example at the help file.
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