- AllDup 4.4.10
- Windows 7 x64 SP1 Pro, updated with almost all updates up to ca. September 2016, updated with security-only updates since then (December 2019 Patch Tuesday security-only updates not yet applied)
- Kaspersky Antivirus Free 20.0.14.1085, current except for today's minor application update (not yet automatically applied)
- Everything 1.4.1.935 search utility set to update its index in background
I ran a duplicate file search that generated the following log:
Once that was done, I attempted to select all duplicates within one of the Documents folder's subfolders, 1 From IBM ThinkPad -- i.e., C:\Users\[MyName]\Documents\1 From IBM ThinkPad -- trying both the button function and the menu function. No files were selected.================================================================
2019-12-16 09:46:11 AM - INFO: Unable to detect the VLC Media Player 32-bit version 3 on your system
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2019-12-16 09:46:14 AM - AllDup 4.4.10
2019-12-16 09:46:14 AM - Search Method: File name + File extension + File size
2019-12-16 09:46:14 AM - 1.Source folder: C:\Users\[MyName]\Documents
2019-12-16 09:46:14 AM - Option: Compare files from all source folders
2019-12-16 09:46:14 AM - Folder filter activated: 7
2019-12-16 09:46:14 AM - Filter type: Exclusive
2019-12-16 09:46:14 AM - 1.folder filter: c:\windows
2019-12-16 09:46:14 AM - 2.folder filter: c:\program files (x86)
2019-12-16 09:46:14 AM - 3.folder filter: c:\program files
2019-12-16 09:46:14 AM - 4.folder filter: ?:\system volume information
2019-12-16 09:46:14 AM - 5.folder filter: ?:\recycled
2019-12-16 09:46:14 AM - 6.folder filter: ?:\recycler
2019-12-16 09:46:14 AM - 7.folder filter: ?:\$recycle.bin
2019-12-16 09:46:14 AM - Determine file count of all source folders...
2019-12-16 09:46:15 AM - File count: 32,585
2019-12-16 09:46:15 AM - Scan: C:\Users\[MyName]\Documents
2019-12-16 09:46:29 AM - Found 15,896 duplicates with a total of 3.91 GB inside folder 'C:\Users\[MyName]\Documents'
2019-12-16 09:46:29 AM - Scanned files: 32,585
2019-12-16 09:46:29 AM - Groups: 6,312
2019-12-16 09:46:29 AM - File comparison count: 32,585
2019-12-16 09:46:29 AM - Duplicates: 15,896 (48%) (3.91 GB)
2019-12-16 09:46:29 AM - Elapsed time: 00:00:15
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I then moved the 1 From IBM ThinkPad subfolder up one level, to C:\Users\[MyName]\1 From IBM ThinkPad, selected both the Documents folder and the 1 From IBM ThinkPad folder in AllDup, and ran the search again with the same settings. [Log not supplied in this post.] Once again, I tried to recursively select all files within 1 From IBM ThinkPad and no files were selected.
Questions:
"Select recursively" (and other bulk-selection functions) are critical to me, as I don't have time to manually select thousands and thousands of duplicate files. (This particular search is only one of many that I need to run.)
Have I overlooked some key AllDup setting? Or is AllDup's "Select recursively within a given folder" function not working under at least some circumstances?
Any help the author or other users can provide would be greatly appreciated!