There seems to be a problem here
This is the default view for this picture
2. This is the picture after applying a dupe:
3. This is the default view with multiple pictures search:
When I apply the dupe function: dupe:dc;dm;da it still shows
"Yw2sX8-vJK86ENJWaYYN1b7Ykg0=PHOTO-2019-11-09-10-40-42" in J:\photos app\ even though this picture shouldn't when compared to picture 2
This is one of the reasons why I had to move to excel because using =textjoin it was able to correctly match duplicates except with a more messey colour and gui experience. Ask me for the excel workbook through PM and I will happily illustrate the issue
Duplicate showing when its not supposed to
Duplicate showing when its not supposed to
Last edited by void on Fri Oct 07, 2022 1:40 am, edited 3 times in total.
Reason: moved to Everything 1.5 fourm
Reason: moved to Everything 1.5 fourm
Re: Duplicate showing when its not supposed to
Here is picture 1, sorry about that I dont know why it wont let me attach more than 3 pictures
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Re: Duplicate showing when its not supposed to
Because the date created, date modified and date accessed is the same as another file in your results."Yw2sX8-vJK86ENJWaYYN1b7Ykg0=PHOTO-2019-11-09-10-40-42" in J:\photos app\ even though this picture shouldn't when compared to picture 2
Please try sorting by date created to confirm.
I think you are expecting the name and size to be included when searching for duplicates.
However, you have only specified dc;dm;da in your dupe: search.
Notes:
I am going to assume you have disabled date accessed on your system.
Loading the icon or thumbnail would likely cause the date accessed to change.
dupe:dc;dm;da will find duplicates for date created, date modified and date accessed down to the 100-nanoseconds.
Even though Everything only shows seconds in the result list.
If you want to find duplicate content, please try the following search:
ext:jpg dupe:size;first-256-bytes;sha256
I do not recommend using dates to reliably find duplicated files.
Although, it can be useful to give an instant guide to possibly duplicated files.
In which case, using just one date should be enough, please try the following search:
dupe:size;dm
-or-
dupe:size;name;dm
Re: Duplicate showing when its not supposed to
Well thats the idea, I dont want to search by the name because the date and time of that one file is off by 1 hour so i want it to be excluded but because it shares the date and time with another file, it shows up. The only way I can think around this is if there is a conditional format, similar to how excel does.Because the date created, date modified and date accessed is the same as another file in your results.
Please try sorting by date created to confirm.
I think you are expecting the name and size to be included when searching for duplicates.
However, you have only specified dc;dm;da in your dupe: search.
I'm not sure what you mean by this, the date accessed dupes did show up correctlyNotes:
I am going to assume you have disabled date accessed on your system.
Loading the icon or thumbnail would likely cause the date accessed to change.
I've literally tried tens of combinations and date modified or size or filename length and played around with almost properties. I'm not sure how excel is finding better duplicates than everythingI do not recommend using dates to reliably find duplicated files.
Although, it can be useful to give an instant guide to possibly duplicated files.
In which case, using just one date should be enough, please try the following search:
dupe:size;dm
-or-
dupe:size;name;dm
Here is a screenshot for excel, although, mind you still some other formatting needs to be done on excel list to further illustrate better dupe finding.
As you can see in the screenshot, unhighlighted cells in column G are the ones that everything should've excluded. Column A is filename, B is parent path, C is size, D, E, F are date cr, date md, date ac respectively and column G is =TEXTJOIN("||",TRUE,C1:F1) joining together values from column C to F bonded by two | characters (shift+backwards slash) as the helper column
Re: Duplicate showing when its not supposed to
In excel, it looks like you are finding duplicates on size, date created (to the second), date modified (to the second) and date accessed (to the second).
Could you please give an example, where dupe:size;dm is not giving the exact same results.
What files is Everything missing, or reporting incorrectly?
Could you please give an example, where dupe:size;dm is not giving the exact same results.
What files is Everything missing, or reporting incorrectly?
Re: Duplicate showing when its not supposed to
Namely, these two filenames which worked for these two but not for a greater number of files with this exact same problem it somehow fails for other pictures
Yw2sX8-vJK86ENJWaYYN1b7Ykg0=PHOTO-2019-11-09-10-40-42.jpg
yVLCjLcsj2VARrK99fcvFIsQAKc=PHOTO-2019-11-09-10-41-20.jpg
That's what I wanted to find duplicates based on all 4 properties (to the second for dates and times)
See example below
Yw2sX8-vJK86ENJWaYYN1b7Ykg0=PHOTO-2019-11-09-10-40-42.jpg
yVLCjLcsj2VARrK99fcvFIsQAKc=PHOTO-2019-11-09-10-41-20.jpg
That's what I wanted to find duplicates based on all 4 properties (to the second for dates and times)
See example below
Re: Duplicate showing when its not supposed to
Thanks for the images.
What was the dupe command used in the first image?
-It looks like it is still dupe:dc;dm;da
These results are expected for the dupe:dc;dm;da command.
I think you are expecting size to be included when finding duplicates?
dupe:dc;dm;da will not include the size when finding duplicates.
The second image shows the dupe:date-accessed with the expected results.
That is results that share the same date accessed.
I think you are expecting size to be included when finding duplicates?
Could you please give an example, where dupe:size;dm is not giving the exact same results as Excel.
What files is Everything missing, or reporting incorrectly?
What was the dupe command used in the first image?
-It looks like it is still dupe:dc;dm;da
These results are expected for the dupe:dc;dm;da command.
I think you are expecting size to be included when finding duplicates?
dupe:dc;dm;da will not include the size when finding duplicates.
The second image shows the dupe:date-accessed with the expected results.
That is results that share the same date accessed.
I think you are expecting size to be included when finding duplicates?
Could you please give an example, where dupe:size;dm is not giving the exact same results as Excel.
What files is Everything missing, or reporting incorrectly?
Re: Duplicate showing when its not supposed to
Ahh I see the problem. It's because 2 filenames (XnKTgnu7Ny1LvkvaulNrqOHVCsk=PHOTO-2019-11-08-23-08-12, tkTMpj3cPFl0H1ofBoGlRzWUiN4=PHOTO-2019-11-08-23-08-10) have the same size of 8,238 bytes. Both of these filenames are located in J:\photos app and have Friday, November 08, 2019, 10:08:10 PM as date created, date modified and date accessed. The same two duplicate files are located in other folders with the date created, date modified and date accessed set as Friday, November 08, 2019, 11:08:10 PM. Am I correct in this reasoning that's why Everything wasn't able to exclude these entries from the search result after adding dupe:size;dm. Am I correct in this reasoning? Excel 365 has shown this result by highlighting all entries as duplicates on textjoin functon.
BTW, I have a question, can two dupe: be used together?
Everything: Excel 365:
BTW, I have a question, can two dupe: be used together?
Everything: Excel 365: