Where can I submit Ideas to make Total Commander better

[Jabrecer]

Hi Everybody:

After using total commander (and bought it!) I have 2 needs not found on the current version of Total Commander.

1) On the Multi-Rename tool would be nice to have (in the rename masks) one more mask: [D], so the name of directory could be part of the new name. I know I can type It but, because I'm fixing files in more than one thousand subdirectories (Karaoke Files), it's gonna be easier.

2) When Find Files (Alt-F7) searches same filename, same filesize and you got the list, There's no option to delete files AND KEEP AT THE SAME TIME One of each of repeated files!

So, Where can I submit Ideas to make Total Commander better?
Thanks in advance
Tony Bretado

[djk]

1) On the Multi-Rename tool would be nice to have (in the rename masks) one more mask: [D], so the name of directory could be part of the new name. I know I can type It but, because I'm fixing files in more than one thousand subdirectories (Karaoke Files), it's gonna be easier.

From help:

[P] Paste name of the parent directory, e.g. when renaming c:\directory\file.txt -> pastes "directory".
Also working: [P2-5], [P2,5], [P-8,5], [P-8-5] and [P2-], see description of [N] above.

So, Where can I submit Ideas to make Total Commander better?

Just here

[Jabrecer]

Thanks a lot for your help.

I'm checking right now the help file for more info.

[djk]

2) When Find Files (Alt-F7) searches same filename, same filesize and you got the list, There's no option to delete files AND KEEP AT THE SAME TIME One of each of repeated files!

I'm not sure if I understand you well. It's a bit difficult to automatically delete some files cause I would like to decide which of two (or more) the same files I want to save - even if they are the same I can prefer some location.

Do you use "Find duplicate files" option? If not - try it and then after "Feeding to listbox" you can manually delete the duplicated files.

[Jabrecer]

Jabrecer wrote:
2) When Find Files (Alt-F7) searches same filename, same filesize and you got the list, There's no option to delete files AND KEEP AT THE SAME TIME One of each of repeated files!

DJK wrote:
I'm not sure if I understand you well. It's a bit difficult to automatically delete some files cause I would like to decide which of two (or more) the same files I want to save - even if they are the same I can prefer some location.

Do you use "Find duplicate files" option? If not - try it and then after "Feeding to listbox" you can manually delete the duplicated files.
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Dear Fellow DJK:

What I mean is AFTER using "Find duplicates files" and "Feed to listbox" RIGHT THERE, instead of manually deleting files SOMETIMES I need to tell Total Commander to Delete the files BUT SAVE the First of each group of same files, or the second or the last.

You know? The last time I used this option I had 40,000+ midi files and 5,000+ was duplicate, That's why I would like to tell Total Commander to SAVE the first, BUT delete the rest of each group.

Again, excuse my english, I speak spanish.

thanks in advance for any help.

[Clo]

2Jabrecer
Hi!

SOMETIMES I need to tell Total Commander to Delete the files BUT SAVE the First of each group of same files, or the second or the last.

Just a question (maybe shall not help...) to define this very ticklish issue alright:

¤ Have you a major reason to want for keep the first, or the second, or the n...th. file, since they are all the same whether well filtered by the "Search" function? I thought: perhaps a better quality of the sound or so?
That worths a so elaborate script... I guess that experts at scripting could solve your problem. I suppose that currently.... they are sleeping! Awful time-zones!
Other (offtopic):

Again, excuse my english, I speak spanish.

It's not so bad! I saw much worse... Hummm.... Please, could you contact me via email (button below), we have none Spanish Help document yet. However, I've a structure (HTML) easy to translate... Thanks!
Kind regards, glad to hear from you,
Claude
Clo

[Jabrecer]

Clo wrote:
Just a question (maybe shall not help...) to define this very ticklish issue alright:

¤ Have you a major reason to want for keep the first, or the second, or the n...th. file, since they are all the same whether well filtered by the "Search" function? I thought: perhaps a better quality of the sound or so?
That worths a so elaborate script... I guess that experts at scripting could solve your problem. I suppose that currently.... they are sleeping! Awful time-zones!
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Hello Clo:

Of course, the major reason es to delete thousand of duplicates, BUT KEEP UNIQUE Files!

regards!

[hamoid]

Maybe it would be easy to do:

Imagine you have the list of found files (feed to list) and you press the + key to select some files in screen. At this point you could make a regexp to select some of the found files. The problem is that currently this regexp runs only in the filenames, not paths. Maybe if it was running in the whole path+filename it would be enough to select groups of files to delete in an easier way...

Just my idea

And... since this started suggesting an idea, I also want to suggest some things:

1.Advanced Colouring.

What if the colouring of files was more advanced? not based on file extension, but on a set of rules you could define on a configuration file? You could have different colouring schemas. Examples:

By age
<format age="0d" color="#FF0000" />
<format age="7d" color="#000000" />
this would make the files from today red, those from one week and older black, the ones in between different tones.

By size
<format size="3000" color="#0000FF" />
<format size="1000000" color="#FFFFFF" />
Files smaller than 3k blue, bigger than 1mb white, the ones in between different tones.

By extension
<format ext="jpg|gif|png" color="#228844" />
<format ext="htm|html" color="#882211" />
This we can do now already

And it would be wonderful if we also could choose a background color. Then you could really do powerful things, like using the fore color for the file type and the back color to show size or age. Maybe it could look like a fisher price TC, but it would help identifying files.

2. Easier shortcut definition.

I go crazy trying to find the right event in the small combo box. A big list would be much easier.

Greetings

Abe

[pdavit]

I think what Jabrecer is trying to explain here is that for some cases (and probably most of the cases) it is more practical to be able to delete a large amount of duplicated files other than keeping the ones you what in a location you want them to be.

The use of the word "first' or "second" or "last" for all I know is totally rhetorical here and is used in my humble opinion purely for simplicity and for practical reasons.

If you are searching for duplicated files in the Windows directory it is definitely important to known which ones you need to keep. If the search though is done within an MP3 directory or a folder with images, for example, it might not be of great importance to know where the kept file(s) is (are) located.

[Clo]

2pdavit
Hello!
¤ Since Jabrecer has sound files, I thought that one could be better at sound quality in a lot of found duplicates! So, it could be the n...th. in the result-list when it's displayed in a pannel.
¤ If there is no matter for the order in the list to keep a single file, he could rename always the first, then delete the whole list.
* I made a small test: the renamed file is kept in its dir., all others are removed.
Not quite secure, of course...
The hamoid's ideas are good too! Unfortunately, only the extension-colouration is supported currently...
It's really a difficult problem, I continue to think to...
Kind regards,
Claude
Clo

[Sheepdog]

What I mean is AFTER using "Find duplicates files" and "Feed to listbox" RIGHT THERE, instead of manually deleting files SOMETIMES I need to tell Total Commander to Delete the files BUT SAVE the First of each group of same files, or the second or the last.

You know? The last time I used this option I had 40,000+ midi files and 5,000+ was duplicate, That's why I would like to tell Total Commander to SAVE the first, BUT delete the rest of each group.

What about to rename all files with the 'Multiple Rename Tool' and a counter?
for instance: [N]!![C]
Then you can deselect all files with '*!!003.*' and delete the rest.

sheepdog

[havanna]

I support Jabrecer's Idea and agree with pdavit.

There are more cases than mp3 and midi. Happens with images that were copied for convenience as well in my case.

An Option to remove all but one (1st might be easiest to realize) of the dupes would be very handy - but with a fat warning. You could do a LOT of damage using the feature (imagine a duplicate search over all HDs with 2 Windows Installations...

[Clo]

2havanna

An Option to remove all but one (1st might be easiest to
realize) of the dupes would be very handy - but with a fat warning. You could do a LOT of damage using the feature (imagine a duplicate search over all HDs with 2 Windows Installations...

Hi!
"All but one" should be a good solution for the problem of this thread; I thought also to keep the first - if there is none inconvenience-, in the small test that you can see above.
Indeed, it might include restrictions, i.e. to see the <windows> dirs as read-only, even if they are not...
Unfortunately, the current TC version has not such a feature, and I hope that Ch. Ghisler'll have a look here!
Best regards,
Clo

[Jabrecer]

Hi Guys:

Finally I want to Show You this to clarify why I have the need to delete All Files Except Firsts (Uniques).
This Happens after using Find Duplicates & Feed to List
I HAVE THOUSAND LIKE THAT!
As you can see the files are the same but in different dirs, I want to delete duplicates but keep uniques!, I don't care about dirs.

file name Size
------------------------------------------- ---------------
c:\New01\Agua_Nueva-Te_Acuerdas 58,399
c:\Midis\Agua_Nueva-Te_Acuerdas 58,399
c:\Kars2\Agua_Nueva-Te_Acuerdas 58,399
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c:\New01\Alaska-Ni Tu Ni Nadie 38,876
c:\Kars1\Alaska-Ni Tu Ni Nadie 38,876
c:\Kars2\Alaska-Ni Tu Ni Nadie 38,876
c:\Kars3\Alaska-Ni Tu Ni Nadie 38,876
c:\Kars4\Alaska-Ni Tu Ni Nadie 38,876
-----------------------------------------------------------
c:\New01\Alegrijes Y Rebujos-Alegrijes Y Rebujos 36,923
c:\Kars1\Alegrijes Y Rebujos-Alegrijes Y Rebujos 36,923
-----------------------------------------------------------
c:\New01\Alicia Villareal-Ladronzuelo 87,641
c:\Kars1\Alicia Villareal-Ladronzuelo 87,641
-----------------------------------------------------------
c:\New01\Alverto Vazquez-El Pecador 51,322
c:\Kars1\Alverto Vazquez-El Pecador 51,322
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c:\New01\Alverto Vazquez-El Ultimo Beso 20,741
c:\Kars1\Alverto Vazquez-El Ultimo Beso 20,741
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c:\New01\Azul Azul - Apretaito 27,002
c:\Midis\Azul Azul - Apretaito 27,002
c:\Kars4\Azul Azul - Apretaito 27,002
-----------------------------------------------------------


And the List goes to 5,000+...

How can I delete duplicates but keeping uniques?
That's the question.

It's really hard going 1 by 1 selecting the first of each group.
thanks if any help comes from the guru guys.
Tony Bretado

[vlado]

Hi Tony,

0. Suppose your files can be anywhere in drive C.

A. Extract UNIQUE files:
1. Create new folder (in C root) C:\UNIQUES.
2. Select all folders in C root, where your files can be (don't select UNIQUES!)
3. Find your Files (leave "Only search in selected directories/files" checked, don't check "Find duplicate files" in Find Files setup dialog!).
4. Feed them to listbox.
5. Select all files in listbox.
6. MOVE them to C:\UNIQUES - choose "Skip all" in overwrite confirmation dialog.

B. Delete DUPLICATES:
7. Repeat steps 2 to 5.
8. Delete them, they are duplicates.

Done. All your UNIQUE files are now moved to C:\UNIQUES (it's ok since you don't care about dirs). Duplicates are removed.

Vlado