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Select by date should include Created #1415

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therentabrain opened this issue Dec 11, 2024 · 0 comments
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Select by date should include Created #1415

therentabrain opened this issue Dec 11, 2024 · 0 comments
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Hi! Thanks again for this beautiful tool. I have saved hundreds of gigabytes so far, no kidding!

I ran into a situation which it seems would be easy to handle, but I don't see a current way to do it.

I keep sets of backups and other projects in dated folders. Often the exact same file winds up in multiple backups and/or in multiple projects. Czkawka does a great job of finding all the copies. But I plan to offload the older projects and older backups. I want to keep the copies of the source files that are in the newest projects and/or newest backups, so I don't offload files that are needed by newer projects.

Since it's an identical copy, each one has the exact same Modified stamp. So when I tell the GUI to keep the newest one, it seems to pick one at random. But I'd like to keep the most recent project one, which would generally be solved by one of these:

  1. When Modified is identical, compare Created stamps
  2. When Modified is identical, compare the modified date of the folder that the file is in.

Neither is going to be 100% perfect, but I think either would be great.

Additionally, the "files are identical, so I'm just going to pick one at random" behavior isn't ideal. I'd like to be warned that this is happening and confirm or deny it. Same with selecting by size. I would like to be alerted that my results may not match expectations because some of the files are identically sized or dated, if that happens.

Thanks again.

@therentabrain therentabrain added the enhancement New feature or request label Dec 11, 2024
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