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Find Duplicate Files within particular folders

Find Duplicate Files within particular folders

I'd love to see the Find Duplicates tool have an option that would limit the search to a particular folder (and it's subfolders).

 

As of now, the Find Duplicates tool will find all the duplicate files in the Vault.  Of course, this list can be sent to Excel, where the user can sort through the line items to hunt down files in certain folders.  But it would be much more effecient, if the user could limit the Find Duplicates search to a specific folder (and possibly it's subfolders).

 

The reason for such a request is... many times, we are looking to cleanup (before maintenance) on the Vault in stages.  I don't want to tackle all of the duplicate files at one time.  I want to look into a particular folder (that may have several thousand files) and find all the duplicates that reside in that folder.  An option to also search in any subfolders would be a nice touch as well (an on/off toogle for this option).

 

 

Thank you for your time,

 

Lance Stevens

ECAD, Inc.

2 Comments
Anonymous
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Lance Stevens is a genius. 

 

Thank you!!

 

tc

RStancescu
Collaborator

I was ready to request this as a new topic; just asked the same in November at the AU in Vegas. 

Show duplicates / folders feature will help us a lot in the process of cleaning stuff step by step.

Good luck!

radu

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