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Find duplicates with selection in both panes

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TC 10.00

I suspect that if I make selections in both panes, the "Find duplicates" runs only one of the two.
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mmm wrote: 2023-01-11, 13:39 UTC Thanks.

My gut feeling is telling me this forum gets a tad more views than the bug list.
For that reason I suggest we wait for a week or two to see contributions from others if there is any.
Then, you can move the problem to the right destination.

Deal?

mmm wrote: 2023-01-18, 05:11 UTC For the record:
This report was created in order to reinforce a few recent suggestions pertaining to "File duplicate files" feature.

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Re: Find duplicates with selection in both panes

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That's correct.

You can make the Find duplicates searh both panels if you manually add the path of the opposite panel to the "Search in" field, separated with a semicolon.
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Re: Find duplicates with selection in both panes

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I translate your response as "Yes, it is a bug".
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mmm wrote: 2023-01-11, 12:48 UTC I translate your response as "Yes, it is a bug".
No, I don't consider it as a bug, hardly even as a missing feature - and I did not percieve your post as a bug report since it was no in the TC10.x bug reports (English) section.

Find files has always only worked for one panel, but can work for several non related folders or several drives, as pointed out.
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Re: Find duplicates with selection in both panes

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Petermad,
Thanks for your prompt reply, as always.
I wanted to test the audience before reporting the problem as a bug.

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Anyway, there is more to it.
You can make the Find duplicates search both panels if you manually add the path of the opposite panel to the "Search in" field, separated with a semicolon.
I am afraid that the statement above is true for non-selection search only.

Steps to follow:
1. Make selections on both sides
2. Uncheck the "Only search in selected directories" tick
3. Add the two paths manually as you suggested
4. Tick the "Only search in selected directories" option again

Let me know what you think.
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2mmm
I am afraid that the statement above is true for non-selection search only.
Yes.
4. Tick the "Only search in selected directories" option again
Ticking that option, resets the "Search in" field to the path in the active panel. So it is not possible with the current implementation to search only selected files/folders in more that one panel.
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Re: Find duplicates with selection in both panes

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Thanks.

My gut feeling is telling me this forum gets a tad more views than the bug list.
For that reason I suggest we wait for a week or two to see contributions from others if there is any.
Then, you can move the problem to the right destination.

Deal?
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TC's search has always prefilled the directory of the active panel, and worked on that. This still applies when a selection is made, as TC's help points out:
Only search in selected directories/files

Only search in directories and files selected in Total Commander's active file window.
Hence, the "Find duplicates" option works on objects selected in the active panel.

If you want something else, you might want to suggest a new feature. Or voice your support for this suggestion: viewtopic.php?t=78185, which sound very similar to what you're trying to do.

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Re: Find duplicates with selection in both panes

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Dalai,
I do not think that the link you provided deals with selection.
Close, but not identical.
Thanks anyway.
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Re: Find duplicates with selection in both panes

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mmm,
Well, if it matters in any way, this is by design. You are welcome to propose a change / improvement / feature request.

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Re: Find duplicates with selection in both panes

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mmm wrote: 2023-01-11, 14:07 UTCI do not think that the link you provided deals with selection.
That doesn't matter. If the search doesn't work on both panels it can't work on selections made in both panels. Put another way: searching in both panels is the prerequisite for searching within the selection of both panels.

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Slightly rephrased for clarity (hopefully ;))
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Re: Find duplicates with selection in both panes

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Hacker,
Thanks for your feedback.

Dalai,
Not sure where you are going with that.
No biggie though.
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Re: Find duplicates with selection in both panes

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mmm wrote: 2023-01-11, 13:24 UTC I wanted to test the audience before reporting the problem as a bug.
Hacker wrote: 2023-01-11, 14:15 UTC mmm,
Well, if it matters in any way, this is by design. You are welcome to propose a change / improvement / feature request
In this regard it may be of interest to the participants in the above discussion that while I do not consider the current implementation to be a bug either I've only recently issued exactly that kind of request for an enhancement in the
"TC suggestions (English)"-section of the board which would appear to be the appropriate location for that purpose - although I would also have to agree that the audience for such an endeavor probably might be much larger here in the main-section.
viewtopic.php?t=78185

Addendum: Oh, sorry @Dalai for overlooking that you had already linked to my corresponding feature-request. As for the question about searching selections - well, if you would implement searching below both panels to begin with (being a prerequisite for this as you already correctly pointed out) - and since each file-panel supports selections - this would IMHO automatically imply that duplicates could be searched only between/below selections within these 2 panels as well.
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Re: Find duplicates with selection in both panes

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For the record:
This report was created in order to reinforce a few recent suggestions pertaining to "File duplicate files" feature.

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The time has come to move this item to the Suggestions forum.







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Re: Find duplicates with selection in both panes

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I, too, would like to express my

support +++

for this suggestion and in particular the ready-made approach/solution for dealing with that matter as offered by georgeb in the link provided above!
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