Is there a way to group and sort separately?

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unbarredstream
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Is there a way to group and sort separately?

Post by unbarredstream »

I want to search for md5 duplicates, but sometimes I found entire folders that are duplicated, by default when grouping by md5 the list is sorted by the md5, is there a way to group the results by md5 but sort it by the path? This way I could easily see related paths while still seeing the md5 duplicates, my query looks like this:

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file:*.* dupe-from:"<path>" dupe:md5
NotNull
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Re: Is there a way to group and sort separately?

Post by NotNull »

You mean
file:*.* dupe-from:"<path>" dupe:md5 sort:md5;path
or something else?
(examples might help)
unbarredstream
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Re: Is there a way to group and sort separately?

Post by unbarredstream »

For example: if I have a long list of files and I know that there may be entire duplicated folders, by default the list is grouped by md5 and sorted alphabetically by md5

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file1         example1/folder5    DCA56......
fileaa       example6/folder8    DCA56......
------------------------------------------------------------
fileas76    example8/folder7    EB653......
fileas42    example9/folder3    EB653......
------------------------------------------------------------
fileas32    example4/folder5    F7633......
fileas85    example6/folder3    F7633......
------------------------------------------------------------
..............                                                          <----- Long list with other files
------------------------------------------------------------
file2         example1/folder5    GHA56......           <----- Same folders from first result but at the bottom of the list because of md5
filebb       example6/folder8    GHA56......



What I want is something like this:

file1         example1/folder5    DCA56......
fileaa       example6/folder8    DCA56......
------------------------------------------------------------
file2         example1/folder5    GHA56......           <----- Different md5 but sorted by the related path, but still grouped by md5
filebb       example6/folder8    GHA56......
------------------------------------------------------------
fileas76    example8/folder7    EB653......
fileas42    example9/folder3    EB653......
------------------------------------------------------------
fileas32    example4/folder5    F7633......
fileas85    example6/folder3    F7633......
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