Find duplicates keyboard shortcut

Started by tomdriver, December 09, 2014, 02:19:24 AM

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tomdriver

I'm weeding out duplicate images.  The command Search > Duplicates works fine, but the command Ctrl+M,D does not.  I wish it would.

Mario

Works here. Press <Ctrl>+<M>, release, then press <D> within one second.
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tomdriver

Tried again after closing and re-opening the program.  This time I got a result, but it makes no sense.  I focused on one image, pressed <Ctrl>+M,D, and up came the original plus 50 "matches"!  Only one of these looks anything like the original, and the file names vary immensely.  What's going on?

Mario

This search searches for binary duplicate files, by their checksum. It's the same as Search > Duplicates.
If this search finds files with identical check sums and sizes (it compares both) which look totally different you either have a problem with the check sums in that database (try to rescan the files with the force update option) or the 50 files found happen to have the same checksum and size but look totally different - something that is theoretically impossible.
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