AllDup 4 release candidate

[Administrator]

RFE: Select folder - Select folder by name (string)

I added this to our ToDo-List.

More generally, you might say, a 'Select by Text Pattern', differentiating between Name or Path.

Is "Select files by name" and "Select files by path" not understandable?

[Administrator]

RFE: Select Mode, option to display only groups meeting the chosen Select Mode.

I added this to our ToDo-List.

[Administrator]

If a scan is Paused, Duration is not necessarily accurate.
(At least I believe that's the case.)

Duration does stop when Paused.
But, & possibly related to a pause that extended past midnight ?, when restarted (un-Paused), Duration was off, significantly.

Thinking its likely its 24 hour off, plus/or minus the time of the scan length prior to midnight?

03/07/2016 11:36:44 AM - Scan: X:\out
And currently it is, 02:49 PM 03/08/2016, with Duration showing as 27:29:49.
(Scan paused, probably ~5:PM on the 7th, then restarted ~10:AM on the 8th.)

The scan duration will be determined between the time&date of the scan start and the current time&date.
The difference in seconds will be calculated and formatted to "hh:mm:ss".
And yes, using "Pause" also stops the refresh of the progress info.

[therube]

Oddity.


Search Criteria


Search Criteria, enable:
Name
Size
Content
(Size & Content not really necessary, I just happened to have them enabled.)

File Name, enable:
Ignore specific characters from the file name


Now go back & set:
File last modified date (or probably any other selection or deselection)


Result:
Ignore specific characters from the file name is disabled.


I would think it should only change if 'File name' were deselected.
IOW, once 'Ignore specific characters from the file name' is enabled, making other Search Criteria changes, disables it.

[Administrator]

once 'Ignore specific characters from the file name' is enabled, making other Search Criteria changes, disables it.

Will be fixed with the next update!

[therube]

Some time ago I had run into an issue with Alldup seemingly aborting prior to the scan (itself) having actually completed in full.
(The intermediate results were shown & all worked, only not all files actually scanned.)

General idea is that it was a huge scan, many thousands of files, & at some point, Alldup "finished", when in fact it really hadn't...

I've got notes, but I'll have to organize them a bit [perhaps I can get to that Monday?], or maybe I'll just email you my writings [ramblings ].

[therube]

^--- Sent by email.

[FrizzleFry]

In 3.9.21 there seems to be a problem with loading profiles... the settings in profiles do not seem to be set when loading from the GUI or the command line (with -p)

[Administrator]

In 3.9.21 there seems to be a problem with loading profiles... the settings in profiles do not seem to be set when loading from the GUI or the command line (with -p)

I cant reproduce this problem here with v3.9.21.
Do you get the message "Profile was loaded successfully." after doubleclicking on a profile at the list?
Whats the name of your profile?

[FrizzleFry]

I do see "Profile was loaded successfully." after double-clicking or right-clicking and loading but no settings from the profile are set in search criteria or search options... this is with the portable version in case that makes a difference...

I have profiles named normal, content-byte-by-byte

Another related issue I noticed today is that the search criteria options are not saved to the config4.ini file... only file name and file extension stay checked when I exit and restart AllDup

[Administrator]

this is with the portable version in case that makes a difference...

I could reproduce the problem now if i use the search criteria "File content".
Update with a fix will be released today.

[FrizzleFry]

Thanks. 3.9.22 fixes the problems I mentioned yesterday with loading profiles and saving search criteria. I noticed is that I do not get the confirmation dialog when loading a profile but the settings are loaded so that is fine with me.

[Administrator]

I noticed is that I do not get the confirmation dialog when loading a profile

The message box was removed because if a profile was loaded succesfully the name of the profile will be shown at the title of the window.

[FrizzleFry]

Yes I see that now. I like it.

[DawnTreader]

I am unsure if I am just missing where the option has moved to but there used to be a way to tell alldup to only look at files from one folder and compare them to another root folder. is this feature removed?