Duplicate File find and delete app?

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@PurpleEdge2214

I’m not sure how efficient this is going to be in Clarion.

Hi Geoff - It should be quite fast. However when doing deletes, don’t use remove() but instead use API delete, as Carl demonstrated on this thread:

Test if Close(Report) is SLOW on your System? – Mine 100x slower than C6

I noticed when large 1000+ page Reports closed Preview there was an obvious pause of 10+ seconds before focus returned to the calling window. I traced this down to CLOSE(Report) which deletes the WMF files in the Temp folder. I added code before Close(Report) to delete files myself and the result was Close(Report) dropped from 10 to 1 second. Attached project will let you time Report(close) on your system. ReportCloseSlowTest.zip (9.1 KB) Please enter your results in the poll and reply with s…

@PurpleEdge2214

I think I have ST,

sacré bleu! If you have it then please start using it. And if not - then run out and get it for Santa to give you an early Christmas present. Once you start using it you will wonder why you didn’t start doing so years ago!

It will change the way you think and code. Whorf hypothesis and all that…

(Make sure you are using latest version - currently 3.70 - as there have been lots of improvements over the years.)

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One other thought re choosing which folder is the “keeper”. When you have your list of duplicate files, you could populate another queue of unque folders which have duplicate files. The user gets a list and orders the folders in order of preference. So if a file is in two or more folders then it is retained in the highest ranking directory - the other copies of the file are deleted. This still leaves the issue of identical files in the same directory with different names. You might need the user to choose which one to keep in that case.

cheers

Geoff R