Inclusive folder filter bug?

[jdaniele]

Hi,

i have similar problem with folder filter.

1) set the folder filter mode to "Inclusive".
2) deselect the default folders used to be excluded (\system volume, \windows etc etc)
3) add two new folders with a subfolder each

S:\DanyToCheck\Applications\Admin Utility\SysInternals\AccessChk
S:\DanyToCheck\Applications\Admin Utility\SysInternals\AccessChk\2.0
S:\Incoming\Applications\Admin Utility\SysInternals\AccessChk
S:\Incoming\Applications\Admin Utility\SysInternals\AccessChk\2.0

The subfoders contain only and only one file: accesschk.exe
The file is the same on both subdirs.

I selected the confimation on use filter in the options.

The FILE filter is configured as the default: inlcusive with no item selected.

OK, now press the button "Start Search" and answer yes to the following dialog:

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AllDup
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Use file and folder filter with this search?
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Yes No
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The answer of the search was:

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AllDup
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1 folders and 11 files were search but no duplicates were found.
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OK
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One folder???! (there were 4)
11 files??? (there were 2 in total)

How does it work?

I can't understand it. Can anyone help me?

Moreover, if you deselect ALL the selected folders in the "Inclusive" mode, and then click on "Start Search", it will start the search on the entire drive instead of alerting me there is no folder selected!!!

Very strange behaviour....isn't it?


Thanks for your attention.

Bye
Daniele

[Administrator]

Please tell me what source folders you use for this search.

[jdaniele]

Please tell me what source folders you use for this search.

I wrote them in my last message....

S:\DanyToCheck\Applications\Admin Utility\SysInternals\AccessChk
S:\DanyToCheck\Applications\Admin Utility\SysInternals\AccessChk\2.0
S:\Incoming\Applications\Admin Utility\SysInternals\AccessChk
S:\Incoming\Applications\Admin Utility\SysInternals\AccessChk\2.0

Thanks
Daniele

[Administrator]

So you have 4 source folders activated and no file and folder filters activated?

[jdaniele]

So you have 4 source folders activated and no file and folder filters activated?

I'm sorry, i misunderstood what you asked to me.

The 4 folder reported are configured in the folder filter, as stated in my first mail.

The source drive is "S:" flagged with the checkbox option to "search in subfolders" activated.

I don't know if there is a way to specify source folders without using folder filter.

Maybe i'm doing somenthing in the wrong way....

I got it, looking at the following image found on Internet, i've just realized there is probably a way to add a folder directly in source folders tab....


Ok, anyway, i think there is still the problem with folder filter.
If my source drive is S and i enabled option to search in subfolders and added a filter to search in 4 subfolders, at least, it should search in those subfolders and find the duplicate file.

It instead tells me the search was in ONE folder, only one.... Wich one?

In the more relaxed case, it could search in the whole drive (ignoring the folder filter because it includes 4 dirs already part of the source).

Am i Right?

Thanks
Daniele

[Administrator]

How to simplify things at this case:

Just add your 4 folder filters as source folders and deactivate the folder filters.

More complex solution if you want to use S: as a source folder only:

Add every subfolder-path of your folder filters to the folder filter list like this:

S:\DanyToCheck
S:\DanyToCheck\Applications
S:\DanyToCheck\Applications\Admin Utility
....

[jdaniele]

How to simplify things at this case:

Just add your 4 folder filters as source folders and deactivate the folder filters.

More complex solution if you want to use S: as a source folder only:

Add every subfolder-path of your folder filters to the folder filter list like this:

S:\DanyToCheck
S:\DanyToCheck\Applications
S:\DanyToCheck\Applications\Admin Utility
....

mmmmm, the second alternative do not solve completely the issue:
if i do not want to search in the first two levels of tree, it force me to add them anyway. That's not the solution.
I think to correct the issue in AllDup, it should take care of the dirs added in the filter and only of them.

Thanks a lot for your answer, i'll follow the simplest way, adding the 4 folders to source folder.

Have a nice day.
Bye
Daniele