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Soundman marked one of Virgil Dupras' replies in Hardcoded Software as useful. Virgil Dupras replied to the problem "Keyboard handling in DupeGuru 2.6 for Windows".

Soundman replied on August 27, 2009 12:01 to the question "dupeGuru still find duplicates after I deleted all of them in a previous scan" in Hardcoded Software:

Thanks much! You're not stupid, regardless, but I understand what you mean. :)

I see your point in the ticket about unconfirmed matches, too, but caching discarded matches would also obviate the need for a lengthy rescan (presuming nothing has changed the filesystem in the meantime). It could be left up to the user whether or not to worry about that.

Soundman replied on August 27, 2009 11:57 to the question "how would I filter out a character string?" in Hardcoded Software:

That sounds like a good idea -- and I really appreciate the offer! I'll check back with you when I get to that point, then.

Soundman started following the problem "dupeME (and maybe all dupe): Slow XML Export" in Hardcoded Software.

Soundman replied on August 27, 2009 03:39 to the problem "Keyboard handling in DupeGuru 2.6 for Windows" in Hardcoded Software:

Just as a follow-up, the accelerator keys listed above for DG have been resolved. Thanks!

Soundman replied on August 27, 2009 03:31 to the question "dupeGuru still find duplicates after I deleted all of them in a previous scan" in Hardcoded Software:

Is there a chance the "X discarded" process could cache the potential matches? There was one time it listed nearly 100 "discarded" items! The next search cut it way down to 30-50 (I don't remember exactly) but it took numerous rescans to get the discard numbers down. When it gets down to the single digits it often takes an individual time-consuming scan for each discarded item. Any optimization of this weeding process would be gratefully welcomed!

By the way, prior to the discard notification, it was hit or miss as to how many more scans were needed, so it's definitely good to have the additional info. Thanks for adding that.

Soundman replied on August 27, 2009 03:24 to the question "how would I filter out a character string?" in Hardcoded Software:

This is a good solution for temporary filtering. However, I'm about to do some major filesystem maintenance and rearrange my music, meaning my existing ignore database will become pretty much useless.

Do you have any suggestions on how to recreate a massive ignore database? I'd love to permanently ignore strings like *_v2.* for example, since that would represent a permitted variation of an existing file. (I can then unignore the v2 files later in the reorganization process.)

Soundman started following the question "how would I filter out a character string?" in Hardcoded Software.

Soundman replied on May 26, 2009 07:53 to the problem "Settings lost in latest update" in Hardcoded Software:

Wow. Hey, I'm grateful that you continue to improve the program, but it didn't occur to you to warn people that all the settings are getting thrown away? :) It really gives the impression that you don't think too highly of your customers, even though I'm sure that's not the problem.

It may be trivial to restore the settings manually, but first somebody has to know what the heck they were. Personally, I've been using the program for about 8 years, and for the last 3 or so years the interface hasn't noticeably changed. I certainly didn't have the settings memorized! All I knew is that everything was gone and I didn't even have a screenshot of the old setup to go by or any instructions for trying to recover one aspect of several decades' worth of work organizing my audio files.

Please. I'm sure this Qt, whatever that is, is a great idea, and redoing settings isn't the end of the world, but at least WARN people instead of just pulling the rug out from under us. I know you're a good guy and I guess it just didn't occur to you that it matters. Just imagine how somebody might feel if they don't have a good backup (for whatever reason) before installing the new version... :P

Soundman reported a problem in Hardcoded Software on May 26, 2009 03:07:

Settings lost in latest update

I just updated from dgME 5.5.2 to 5.6.0. It looks like the changes made to the program somehow invalidate all settings and info for ME, at least as far as I was willing to go. The registration status was lost, returning it to a demo mode. The column settings were lost. Even the preferences for the type of search to make were lost. I wasn't willing to see if it would no longer recognize the ignore list, because it's taken me way too long to build it!

Are these known issues? There's nothing on the website or the "check for updates" dialog about any of this. For now I've reverted to 5.5x.

Soundman replied on November 04, 2008 18:24 to the question "original file vs duplicate file: identifying the right one" in Hardcoded Software:

Yow, sorry -- that's one of the drawbacks of text communication, people lose the little details sometimes that help understanding. Thanks for the reply.

Now I understand what you meant about ME, too -- I didn't try ME in the example because I knew there would be variations in content and I just wanted to compare names.

Soundman replied on November 04, 2008 04:32 to the problem "Keyboard handling in DupeGuru 2.6 for Windows" in Hardcoded Software:

Thank you. I don't know if there's similar code across DG and ME, but I accidentally discovered that ME will open a second rename dialog if you accidentally bump F2 while one's already open. ;)

Hope it's okay to say that. I'd hate to start a whole separate topic just for that small item.

Soundman replied on November 04, 2008 04:29 to the question "original file vs duplicate file: identifying the right one" in Hardcoded Software:

How could it possibly be off-topic? The topic's about DG and file priorities. Please, feel free to move a comment if you deem it necessary. I did my best to find the most relevant topic, but it's not necessary to criticize the post.

Meanwhile, I'm not sure I understand the question. I wasn't using ME -- I only mentioned it because it came up in the discussion further up the page.

Soundman replied on November 01, 2008 20:10 to the question "original file vs duplicate file: identifying the right one" in Hardcoded Software:

Quick follow-up to the new priority handling: most of the time, deeper dirs are given greater weight now. However, when two files are in the same dir, prioritizing seems to be random. I would suggest that like sorting into directories, perhaps longer filenames should be given greater weight since they have more (hopefully useful) information about the file.

Here's an example of a subtle change that permitted dupes to exist. The slightly longer filename's easier to read. (Sorry I don't have a better example right now.) In this case, the files were found by DupeGuru (not ME):

Soundman reported a problem in Hardcoded Software on November 01, 2008 20:04:

Keyboard handling in DupeGuru 2.6 for Windows

I discovered a couple of small issues.
1. Using ctrl-C in the rename dialog opens up a "browse for folder" dialog instead of doing the system-wide Copy command.
2. The DEL key also falls through to the main window instead of acting on the text in the rename dialog.

Thanks for a really useful program!

A comment on the idea "Troubleshooting missed matches" in Hardcoded Software:

Then again, I'm not sure it would take that much time to implement, but still... a whole new window with deletion capabilities, it's not trivial.

Aha, so you're only looking for trivial suggestions at this point? ;)

Okay. I just thought it was just a feature that still had some rough edges, but I can continue to mess with the config file manually. Thanks anyway. The program does give more useful feedback with recent changes, so that's much appreciated. – Soundman, on October 19, 2008 18:37

Soundman marked one of Virgil Dupras' replies in Hardcoded Software as useful. Virgil Dupras replied to the question "dupeGuru still find duplicates after I deleted all of them in a previous scan".

Soundman shared an idea in Hardcoded Software on October 18, 2008 22:12:

Troubleshooting missed matches

Do you think you might consider creating a viewer for the ignore list sometime? It seems like it'd be a good way to debug comparison results, maybe with separate file path & filename columns in the viewer lists and columnar sort capability.

For example, I just came across a couple of files in my collection that're about 3 years old, but as far as I know they've never shown up in DGME. They're named identically except for a single extra letter in one of the names (a typo). Now I'm wondering if I might've ignored the match once by mistake or if DGME somehow missed the similarity. (It actually turns out that they're not dupes, but besides their near-identical names the length is also almost the same and the bit rate is identical. I've now named 'em appropriately to avoid confusion.)

Anyway, a way to view and manage the ignore list seems like it would sort of round out the feature set. Right now, once you've ignored a file, it's ignored forever unless you wade through the XML in the config itself.

Soundman replied on September 10, 2008 19:59 to the question "dupeGuru still find duplicates after I deleted all of them in a previous scan" in Hardcoded Software:

This sounds really good! I would just ask that you rethink the term "discarded" -- seems like it could get new users thinking that files got deleted or something. Also, since the exact number is subject to change when files get ignored, why not just say "Known files are pending" or something? Wouldn't that cover all the bases without scaring anybody? ;)

Soundman started following the update "Upcoming: dupeGurus 2.6, 5.5 and 1.5" in Hardcoded Software.