I guess I should have stated it found
f-o-r-m-a-t-.-c-o-m
(I added the dashes for safety.)
hundreds of times in the (only) two places it
actually exists on my machine.
Good point about doing filtered searches.
That would "help", but since the entire computer,
(one physical drive) is only 15G, I was sort of
expecting it to handle it, however slowly...
(I think I'll turn off CRC matching to speed things up...)
I have dups. of almost "all" file types.
Note: I have 384M SDRAM, so there is no limitation
there... (on Win95B)
I had read the FAQ when I got the program, (another
member suggested that), but this is way different
than what they describe...
Thanks for all the suggestions. Rick Glazier
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick Glazier"
> > A question about the find duplicates feature.
> > On my computer (with 4 partitions on one "new" hard
> > drive) it found one set of dups. (one pair - and listed them)
> > several hundred(?) times.
> > It seemed to be the only files it found.
> > It also said it would take 320 MORE hours to finish.
> > It had run about 6 hours up to that point.
> > While somewhat unresponsive, the program was not
> > frozen and exited correctly when asked...
> > I know this is not normal...
> > Anybody else having problems?
> > This feature alone would have been great for me since
> > I have a tendency to copy stuff to different drives and then
> > forget I have it "all over the place"...)
> > Rick Glazier
> -------------------------------------------
> Rick,
>
> I _think_ the secret here Rick, is to use the 'Find' textbox (it comes up
on the duplicates screen) and search
> for only one type of file at a time. I just did a duplicate search for
*.exe files, and it took less than 5
> minutes. Also, you might want to look at the options/duplicate files tab
and eliminate some of the criteria.
> As for the "several hundred(?)" pair of the same file, do you recall what
the file was? Other than
> desktop.in, I can't think of a standard file that would have so many
duplicates.
>
> Alan Thompson
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