Select files not present in the other directory (by name)

[moondog]

Hi,
I have 2 directories, one (dir A) with 300 and the other (dir B) with 75 files.
I would like to select (in order to rename them) the files in A which are not present in B.
Note that the files in A and B have different contents and date, my selection needs only to be based on the filenames.

The files are the ones that you would have in the "synchronize dirs " window when you use it with "ignore date", "subdirs" and the singles button pressed.

My problem is that I would like to have those files marked, I don't need/want to move them to another dir.

Can you help?
TIA

[Gral]

SHIFT+F2

[moondog]

Shift + F2 unfortunately selects the newer files too,
not only the files missing in the other directory.

I just want those files selected (the ones present on one side and not in the other), disregarding the date or content.

[Sheepdog]

Shift + F2 unfortunately selects the newer files too,
not only the files missing in the other directory.

I just want those files selected (the ones present on one side and not in the other), disregarding the date or content.

Just a workaround:


1 go to the directory you want to copy from
2. select all
3. Ctrl+u to swap the panels
4. Num/ to restore the selection
5. Num* to toggle the selction

Now all files that do not exist in the opposite pane are selected.

sheepdog

[moondog]

It works if, before swapping the panels, you first save the selection.

For my purpose it works, thanks a lot!

-it seemed a trivial function, maybe Christian could implement it?

[Sheepdog]

Here it works indeed without saving the selection.

But without swapping panels I had to save the section to file and load it from there to make it work.

sheepdog

[moondog]

I didn't save the selection to file, I used the mark/save selection command, which saves it in memory, I guess.

[Sheepdog]

Yes, that's what I understood.

But here the selection is saved automatically and I can restore it after the pane switch.

Before I had this idea to switch panels I tried it with save selection, too. But it did not work. I had to save the selection to a file instead.

sheepdog