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David Maisonave edited this page May 17, 2023 · 14 revisions

MediaFileDuplicateFinder (MFDF) Feature Summary

* Features which came with the original fork. All other features are unique to MFDF

Feature Details

Find Duplicates

  • Find duplicate files, even if the duplicate files have different file types, duration, format, resolution, frame rate, watermark, and file tags.
  • MFDF has options to narrow or widen the search pattern, and options to increase search performance.
  • See Comparison Options and Scan-Options

Delete duplicate files with shorter duration lower resolution

After a scan is complete, the GUI displays a list of duplicate file groups. Each group contains 2 or more files which have been determine to be duplicate. The user can select menu option Selection->[Select Lowest duration/Quality], which will check all the files in each group with the lowest duration or quality. This will leave the file with the longest duration and/or highest quality deselected. The user can then select menu option Action->[Delete from disk], which will delete all the selected files.

Only delete files which match the filters

  • In the original fork 0x90d/videoduplicatefinder, all actions apply to filtered out items as well as viewable items. This makes it easy for a users to accidentally delete 100's of files unintentionally.
  • Media File Duplicate Finder does NOT delete files which are filtered out. What you see is what gets deleted. No hidden deletes!

Remember window size and location

  • On program startup, sets the window size and position from the previous running instance.
  • Has logic to reset the window position and size by holding down the shift key during the first few seconds of startup. The reset option may be needed for the following situations.
    • Change in quantity of monitors
    • Change in monitor resolutions
    • Corrupt Window settings between running instance

Exclude Hard Links

  • The exclude hard links option works on all NTFS drive configurations, where-as VDF fails to work on some NTFS configurations.

Save on exit option

  • Save on exit has the following options:
    • Always_Save
    • Never_Save
    • Prompt_to_Save.

Stream line menu

  • Stream line menu having one toolbar (vs 2) which gives user more real-estate to view scan results.
  • Some toolbar items have been consolidated under drop down menus.
  • Columns can be selected and deselected from the main view using menu option View. User doesn't have to exit the main view to change which columns are display.

Duplicates with shorter file names

  • Shorter file name option has been added to menu option Selection->[Select lowest duration/quality and shortest file-name]
  • Allows the shortest file name to be selected for deletion if the files have the same duration and quality.