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My alldup is garbled when deleting duplicate files and keeping shortcuts
Posted: 12 Jun 2023, 09:12
by asq66675091
You can see my screenshot, the shortcut generated by the deleted file is all garbled, and the location is also scrambled, how to deal with it?
Re: My alldup is garbled when deleting duplicate files and keeping shortcuts
Posted: 12 Jun 2023, 10:28
by Administrator
How should the folders and files in your screenshot be named?
Do you use a Windows version with an asian GUI language?
Re: My alldup is garbled when deleting duplicate files and keeping shortcuts
Posted: 12 Jun 2023, 13:10
by asq66675091
As shown in the figure, a large number of junk files without suffixes, garbled file names, and not shortcuts are generated. The system is Win11 in Chinese language, is there a way to restore it? The file is still in the recycle bin, how to clear these garbled files?
Re: My alldup is garbled when deleting duplicate files and keeping shortcuts
Posted: 12 Jun 2023, 16:09
by Administrator
Delete the files/shortcuts with the wrong names and after restore the deleted files from the windows recycle bin.
We did a test with asian file names and creating shortcuts; everything looks fine.
Maybe the problem has something to do with your windows unicode settings?
Re: My alldup is garbled when deleting duplicate files and keeping shortcuts
Posted: 12 Jun 2023, 16:44
by asq66675091
How to batch delete these garbled files? It's a little too many, scattered in different folders, maybe more than 10,000...
Re: My alldup is garbled when deleting duplicate files and keeping shortcuts
Posted: 12 Jun 2023, 18:08
by Administrator
Use the search function of the windows explorer and search for "�" to get a list with all files containing this character in the name. Select all founded files and delete them.
Re: My alldup is garbled when deleting duplicate files and keeping shortcuts
Posted: 12 Jun 2023, 23:43
by therube
For finding files, there is nothing better then
Everything.
Assuming you're wanting to find �, enter that as a search term.
And if you want .lnk files, search for, � ext:lnk, should do it.
(Be sure what you are finding is what you want to delete.)
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Re: My alldup is garbled when deleting duplicate files and keeping shortcuts
Posted: 13 Jun 2023, 07:29
by Administrator
I prefer the freeware
Agent Ransack to find files by name and/or content:
https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/download/