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Dublicate file finder compares files to files in trash bin #1042

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012442 opened this issue Aug 17, 2023 · 3 comments · Fixed by #1074
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Dublicate file finder compares files to files in trash bin #1042

012442 opened this issue Aug 17, 2023 · 3 comments · Fixed by #1074

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@012442
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012442 commented Aug 17, 2023 •
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Hi there,
When doing a dublicate search for a whole drive, the files in the trash bin are also found to be dublicates.
This is not good, because in that way you risk that the system is flagging a file to be a dublicate to a file that is already in the trash bin, thus deleting both files! Another user has very accurately described this behaviour in this post (related to Dupeguru - but it seems to be an issue with czkawka): arsenetar/dupeguru#690

This is the Windows GUI version.

Example attached.
2023-08-17 22_34_13-Czkawka (Hiccup)

Also, when selecting to manually add an exclude directory and pasting a directory path, the program crashes and closes.
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neoOpus commented Aug 18, 2023 •
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You have to exclude the trashbin folder. Use the 3rd tab for that.

Add this

,*:\$RECYCLE.BIN\*

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012442 commented Aug 18, 2023 •
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2023-08-18 17_47_41-Czkawka (Hiccup)
Thanks for the reply.
Like this (see screenshot)?

Are there other folders that would also be good to block?

I tried to exclude the recycle bin through the second tap (excluded directories), but it is not possible to select it through the dialog box.

But in all cases, I think that it should have been excluded by default. There is a very big risk that in the current way, files are accidentially deleted because they are matched to files that are already in the recycle bin.

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neoOpus commented Aug 20, 2023 •
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Yes, but here is my config file, that you could import, do a backup of your settings first, there are few tweaks to speed it up.

czkawka_gui_config_4.txt

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Add more excluded items to windows default settings qarmin/czkawka
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