AllSync & AllDup

You're using the database.
Wonder if that might be the issue?

If you were to disable usage of the database, does AllDup then find your wanted files?


(You might want to backup, or rename, the database's directory, such that you can restore it - theoretically, without losing its data [if that is ...

So you're wanting to scan; New Found Floppy 3 & AA Lotus Notes ?

What does your, lastsearch.txt, file show?

"OneDrive", so I suppose that is some sort of "cloud"?
Are both of those directories (including expected files) actually (physically) "local", on your computer?

New Found Floppy 3 does have ...

Looks like a place like, https://app.mediafire.com/, should work.

After you upload the file(s), to the right, there is a "menu" (...),
& if you right click that, there are various options, like, 'Copy link',
which would give you something like:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/99be4l41a1znj2a/MI ...

Can you post (somewhere) a sample pair of these content compare mp3 files?

Based on the Help, see what...

Find similar file names, Comparison: Ratcliff-Obershelp, might do?


Additionally, 'Compare only characters at the beginning of the filename', might help?


Otherwise, you could compare by Properties, rather then name, & Content at that.
That might work out, depending ...

After using Alldup for several days my task bar and start button search just had a blue line that would run from left to right (moving) under the search bar.

Did you restart the computer during that time?
And if so, was the line there, after restart, but before opening AllDup?

Kind of sounds ...

This is one of the Select items?
And which one, specifically, is that?

Maybe something could be whipped up, writing wanted dirnames to a file, then using AllDup command-line options to parse said directory names.

You're in "Explorer", right-click, SendTo -> Write.dirname.to.AllDUP
& that does something to the effect to... write said dirname to a file, say c:/out ...

Might you have a hidden file/directory, even 0-byte, within said folder?

That would cause the folder to not be deleted.

If xxx & yyy were all duplicates, & they were removed, only the folder \3\ would be removed, cause it is the only (newly) empty folder affected by file deletions (of the xxx ...

http: (as opposed to https:) login (seemingly) does not work.

That's fine, except I happened upon a http:// link & when I went to log in,
I received a, "The submitted form was invalid. Try submitting again.", message.

And that was confusing (as I had thought I entered my correct un/pw).


So I ...

@undupit, might you be using a ReFS formatted drive (Win11) ?

200K files & I'm looking at ~18 minutes (or maybe ~15 minutes).
Win7, i7-3770S, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD (runs acceptably for my needs, but dated, old)
(first time, I thought I'd deselected the... (something about all files selected option), but maybe i missed it?)

Duplicates based on size.
After found ...

When this happens, do you still have the AllDup icon on the Windows Taskbar?

From what I see on my end (Win7) the Add Folder dialog is modal to the main DC window, & so long as that dialog is open, you can't interact with the main window. Likewise if (say all) windows are minimized, clicking on the ...

Any File/Folder Filtering going on?
Or your particular Search Method is not expected to find all files?


And actually...

That particular dialog, is that not going to be the number of files that are Selected ?

There are, 16586 files total that were found, that met your search criteria,
& of that ...

In 4.5.72, you can work-around it...

Exit AllDup.

(Backup first.)
Edit config4.ini.

In the, [Shortcuts], section
add (or modify, as appropriate) the following:
That should get you back working again.