Some recovery software adds numbers to the end of files and you get dozens of additional files. An option that would be nice is to select the files with the shortest names. Could you have it ready today? jk :)
This is exactly the problem I am having. A customer reset their system because it's not clear what it will do in Windows 10 and I had to scan and recover what I could. I ended up saving 255GB...from a 250GB hard drive. This software did a great job finding the duplicates, but I have to right click on one file in each group and manually delete all duplicates. It will take hours with 54,586 duplicate files after I've been at it off and on for about an hour. I selected the first file in a few groups and then tried the right-click and it still only deletes the duplicates of the single file I right-click on.
This software really needs an automated process for just deleting all exact duplicates. In my case, the one with the shortest name would be the one to keep. With IMG_1077.jpg, IMG_1077_000.jpg, IMG_1077_001.jpg it's pretty easy to decide which name to keep, but I realize it may not be that easy in every case. So maybe after all the duplicates are deleted the user could go through the list, the deleted ones shown in red or something, right click and choose "Make this the saved file" and the not-deleted file could be moved and renamed to accommodate the change? Or maybe don't even go that far out of your way. I and my customer would be happy with "This is what you get, one file with this content and a randomly chosen name and location." At least then neither of us would have to go through and delete 50,000+ duplicate files manually.
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This is exactly the problem I am having. A customer reset their system because it's not clear what it will do in Windows 10 and I had to scan and recover what I could. I ended up saving 255GB...from a 250GB hard drive. This software did a great job finding the duplicates, but I have to right click on one file in each group and manually delete all duplicates. It will take hours with 54,586 duplicate files after I've been at it off and on for about an hour. I selected the first file in a few groups and then tried the right-click and it still only deletes the duplicates of the single file I right-click on.
This software really needs an automated process for just deleting all exact duplicates. In my case, the one with the shortest name would be the one to keep. With IMG_1077.jpg, IMG_1077_000.jpg, IMG_1077_001.jpg it's pretty easy to decide which name to keep, but I realize it may not be that easy in every case. So maybe after all the duplicates are deleted the user could go through the list, the deleted ones shown in red or something, right click and choose "Make this the saved file" and the not-deleted file could be moved and renamed to accommodate the change? Or maybe don't even go that far out of your way. I and my customer would be happy with "This is what you get, one file with this content and a randomly chosen name and location." At least then neither of us would have to go through and delete 50,000+ duplicate files manually.