Suggestion on filtering of results.

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serpen786
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Suggestion on filtering of results.

Post by serpen786 »

Hello and welcome great community and admins. Have a good day and wonderful tea on the table.
I have a suggestion to optimize search function that will shorten the review time of manual reviews of files and groups to shorten time needed to review them manually when you sure there is no duplicated with same modified or creation date.

An option to filter and show only groups with a date of modification or creation of even one file different from other files within group so to skip groups with files of same date. This would shorten the filtering when viewing the results in the program, because you would only need to search for files that are similar but were recorded either earlier or later with similarity to other files. In simple words filtering groups where files would have same date of creation or modified date. To get them out of results.

For example, a file was modified today and created today, but there is the same file that was modified and created earlier. You will be shown many groups in which files were modified and created on the same date. And filtering by different modification date eliminates these groups with the same date, and shows only groups in which there are only files with modification date different from other files in the group.

This will optimize and get review of results much faster manually. Of course it should be like variant of filtering option for the groups and so you can find duplicates with same date if you want and can fasten your manual review of them if you sure there is no duplicates with same dates, only with different. So you would get only group of results where files are different with modified date or creation date from others. It's like changing manual review of groups from 20 minutes to like 3 or 5.

Cheers.
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Re: Suggestion on filtering of results.

Post by Administrator »

A filter is not possible, but we can add a new remove command e.g. "Remove all groups where the files have the same date." -> "modified or created date".
btw, the modified or created date always includes the time stamp.
serpen786
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Joined: 25 Feb 2024, 15:35

Re: Suggestion on filtering of results.

Post by serpen786 »

Administrator wrote: 25 Feb 2024, 17:36 A filter is not possible, but we can add a new remove command e.g. "Remove all groups where the files have the same date." -> "modified or created date".
btw, the modified or created date always includes the time stamp.
That would be really cool if you can add this but ignoring the time stamp, only modified or created date. Cause time stamp is always different and that I think will not work "Remove all groups where the files have the same date." if time stamp would not be ignored.
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