you can't choose a right file as a dublicate for deletion when program itself chooses which is duplicate and which is original.

[jombelo]

you can't choose a right file as a dublicate for deletion when program itself chooses which is/are duplicate/s and which is original.
you should have ability to choose also files which are marked as "original" to deletion. it should then just warn&ask confirmation before deletion that you have chosen all files from group for deletion, if you have done so..
that behaviour makes that program just unuseful in real life situations where you have a lots of directories and filetypes with different things which makes file as "original" for you and which ones you want to keep..

[AndroYD84]

Are people actually trying before opening issues? It's right click and "Make Selected into Reference" on the file you want to preserve.

[jombelo]

you did not understand what i meant. you should be able to select ALL of the dublicates some times. and it makes operations MUCH easier when any of the files can be marked to deletion without doing multiple operations. good example how the selections should work can be checked from digitalvolcano's dublicate cleaner software. 15. heinäkuuta 2024 4.32.19 GMT+03:00 AndroYD84 ***@***.***> kirjoitti:

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Are people actually trying before opening issues? It's right click and "Make Selected into Reference" on the file you want to preserve. -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #1239 (comment) You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Message ID: ***@***.***>

[AndroYD84]

You can create a custom command for it, go to View > Options > Custom Command and use this line
del %r
OR this line to send them to the Recycle bin instead
@powershell.exe -nologo -noprofile -Command "& {Add-Type -AssemblyName 'Microsoft.VisualBasic'; [Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.FileSystem]::DeleteFile('%r', 'OnlyErrorDialogs', 'SendToRecycleBin') }"
Then right click the reference file/s > Invoke Custom Command, this will ONLY delete the reference files and still be visible in the GUI, so when you proceed to delete the dupes, both references and dupes are deleted in the process.

[jombelo]

that is just too much hassle. you should just be able to choose the files if they differ from your original priority list. that duplicate cleaner works just like it should. in that point of view. 15. heinäkuuta 2024 5.40.08 GMT+03:00 AndroYD84 ***@***.***> kirjoitti:

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You can create a custom command for it, go to View > Options > Custom Command and use this line `del %r` Then right click the reference file/s > Invoke Custom Command, this will ONLY delete the reference files and still be visible in the GUI, so when you proceed to delete the dupes, both references and dupes are deleted in the process. -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #1239 (comment) You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Message ID: ***@***.***>

[hyprmann]

i still trying to find a way to set the reference based on modification time, but I couldn't find it. the original and duplicates are in the same folder which is why I need the older file as reference and the newer ones as duplicates.