Combined dupe:duration PLUS regex to match a word in any dupes for that group

[TimmehAhShh]

Hello,

Just registered, and may I start by saying this program is great! It's potentially going to make 2 other programs I use redundant!

I have a couple of questions. The first is as topic. I Have a LOT of video files, and using dupe:duration I get reasonably good results. I do have to relax the 'time' to 100ms using /length_dupe_tolerance=100 to include lots of files which due to re-encoding are bot exactly the same length, but are in fact dupes. This unfortunately brings in lots of other files, so that a recent scan using dupe:duration returned over 2000 files. therefore I was wondering if I could add a regex search to the effect the returned results would only include files which had 'A' same word in them, in the following case..'dexter':-

Dexter.S01E04.mp4 1.04mins
S01E04.Time.Flies.Dexter.mkv 1.04mins

\b(\w+)\b(?=.*\b\1) is supposedly a regex to find duplicate words, to the effect that if it found a duplicate word, it would show as a result. How to combine with dupe:duration. Is this possible?

Also, since Windows does not natively support .MKV thumbnail generation in explorer, I use 'Icaros', which is great, but If I have Icaros turned on, Everything1.5 crashes with High CPU. Therefore I must disable 'Thumbnailing' on the Icaros panel to do an Everything1.5 search, and then enable it to see previews of the video dupes i'm attempting to identify. Is there a workaround for this? Perhaps I could create a batch file of some sort?

Would it be possible to show previews of all files in a group at the same time? I know it would be slower... just an ask

And finally, Is there an easier way to change /length_dupe_tolerance=100. ie a slider of some sort? I have to look at the webpage where you suggested it and copy/paste every time I want to change it

Thankyou very much for this great program!

P.S I'm away on hol for a week from today.

[void]

Thank you for your feedback TimmehAhShh,

I was wondering if I could add a regex search to the effect the returned results would only include files which had 'A' same word in them
following case..'dexter':-

Just include the word in your search, for example.

dupe:length dexter

There's no way to find a common word with Everything.
If you don't know the word ahead of time, there's no way to use regex to capture a common word.

Instead of a common word, try the common

S01E04

case:regex:S(\d\d)E(\d\d) dupe:1;2;length

Also, since Windows does not natively support .MKV thumbnail generation in explorer, I use 'Icaros', which is great, but If I have Icaros turned on, Everything1.5 crashes with High CPU. Therefore I must disable 'Thumbnailing' on the Icaros panel to do an Everything1.5 search, and then enable it to see previews of the video dupes i'm attempting to identify. Is there a workaround for this? Perhaps I could create a batch file of some sort?

Please try disabling thumbnails in Everything:

• In Everything 1.5, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Advanced tab on the left.
• To the right of Show settings containing, search for:
  thumbnail
• Select: thumbnail_exclude_files
• Set the value to: *.mkv;*.mp4
• Click OK.
  (if Everything still crashes, disable thumbnails by setting the thumbnails setting to false)

Would it be possible to show previews of all files in a group at the same time? I know it would be slower... just an ask

Everything can only preview one file at a time.

And finally, Is there an easier way to change /length_dupe_tolerance=100. ie a slider of some sort?

Currently, no.
It can be set under Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> length_dupe_tolerance
Leave this window open.
I have on my TODO list to add a length-dupe-tolerance: search function in a future update.

[therube]

Would it be possible to show previews of all files in a group at the same time?

You could always send that set of files to a different program to display the thumbs.

I use IrfanView (& its' irfanview_shell_extension.zip) for that.
Select the files in Everything, right-click content menu -> IrfanView - Thumbnails (or whatever it says).


Also, if you have ways to additionally filter your results, you could add that to your dupe:.
So instead of just dupe:length,
you might be able to use something like dupe:length;!name, or dupe:length;!name,dm or dupe:length;!name,!dm

[TimmehAhShh]

Hi, just back from Hols. Thanks for the replies, I will try them later tonight when I've re-energized

[TimmehAhShh]

Hi again,

void: Yes, as you guessed, I don't know the name ahead of time. My perception was that filters could be layered, so run filter 1, then run filter2 on the results of filter 1. That does not appear to be the case?

I will tinker with an AHK or batch script to temp disable icaros during a dupe search.

May I also ask, does Everything show thumbnails and previews for MKV ans 3GP files? As I thought mine was showing them earlier...but now it isn't..perhaps I changed something in 'Advanced' I shouldn't have? If it did show them, it would potentially negate one of my earlier asks!

rubes: so I tried the Irfanview plugin (I use Irfanview for all my image files!), but it's a bit cumbersome, would be better displayed In-App, but void says no-go so...



Thnx!

[void]

\b(\w+)\b(?=.*\b\1)
My perception was that filters could be layered, so run filter 1, then run filter2 on the results of filter 1. That does not appear to be the case?

This would only work for a single filename, not multiple filenames.

May I also ask, does Everything show thumbnails and previews for MKV ans 3GP files?

Everything uses the system to render thumbnails base on the file extension.
Third part thumbnail handlers can be installed.
Thumbnails will show in Everything the same as Windows Explorer.
-If you see otherwise, please make sure you are using the x64 version of Everything and running Everything as a standard user. (not elevated)