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<H1>5.2 Finding Duplicates</H1>
<P>GQview provides a utility to find images that have similar
attributes or content.</P>
<P>To display a new Find Duplicates Window press D or select Find
duplicates from the File menu.</P>
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</P>
<P><U>Adding files to be compared</U></P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">Add files to be compared using drag
and drop. Drop files or folders onto the Find Duplicates window to
add them to the list of files to compare. When one or more folders
are dropped onto the window a menu will appear allowing you to choose
the desired action:</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 1.58in"><B>Add contents:</B> The contents of
dropped folders will added to the window. <BR><B>Add contents
recursive:</B> The contents of dropped folders and all sub folders
will be added to the window.<BR><B>Skip folders:</B> Ignore folders
contained in the drop list.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">When files are added to the window,
the comparison is restarted to include the new files.</P>
<P><BR><BR>
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<P><U>Comparison methods</U></P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">The attribute to use for two images to
match can be selected with the &ldquo;Compare by:&rdquo; drop down
menu. Each method is explained below:</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Name:</B> The file name.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Size:</B> The file size.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Date:</B> The file date.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Dimensions:</B> The image
dimensions.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Checksum:</B> The MD5 file
checksum.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Path:</B> The complete path to
file.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Similarity (high):</B> Very similar
image content.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Similarity:</B> Similar image
content.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Similarity (low):</B> Slightly
similar image content.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Similarity (custom):</B> Similar
image content, the value to use to consider two images a match is
configured in the <A HREF="10_6_advanced.html">Advanced tab</A> of
the preferences dialog by setting the &ldquo;Custom similarity
threshold&rdquo;.</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><U>Results list</U></P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">Files that match with the selected
comparison method will appear in the list. Matching files are grouped
in alternating color.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">The order of the result list can not
be changed, files will appear in the order of the search. When
comparing by image content similarity, the matching groups will be
sorted by order of rank starting with the files that are most
similar.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">A <B>context menu</B> is available for
the result list by right clicking the mouse or pressing the Menu key
when a row has the focus.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Keyboard shortcuts</B> available in
the results list:</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER><B>Context menu name</B></P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER><B>Description</B></P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Enter</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>View</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Opens selected image in main window.</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>V</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>View in new window</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Opens selected image in a new window.</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Control + A</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Select all</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Selects all images.</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Control + Shift + A</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Select none</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Clear the image selection.</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Select group 1 duplicates</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Selects the first image from each match group.</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Select group 2 duplicates</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Selects all but the first image from each match
				group.</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Control + 1 through<BR>Control + 0</P>
			</TD>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Edit sub menu</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Executes the respective editor command.</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Control + P</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Properties</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Opens a properties window for selected images.</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>C</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Add to new collection</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Creates a new collection containing the selected
				images.</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Print</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Opens a print dialog for selected images.</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Control + C</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Copy</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Copy selected images.</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Control + M</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Move</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Move selected images.</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Control + R</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Rename</P>
			</TD>
			<TD WIDTH=50%>
				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Rename selected images.</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Control + D</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Delete</P>
			</TD>
			<TD WIDTH=50%>
				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Delete selected images.</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Delete</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Remove</P>
			</TD>
			<TD WIDTH=50%>
				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Remove selected images from result list.</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Control + Delete</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Clear</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Cleared the result list.</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Menu</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Displays the context menu.</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Control + T</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER><BR>
				</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Toggle display of thumbnails.</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Control + W</P>
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				<P ALIGN=CENTER><BR>
				</P>
			</TD>
			<TD WIDTH=50%>
				<P ALIGN=CENTER>Close window.</P>
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<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">The <B>selection</B> can be changed
using the keyboard and mouse the same as in a <A HREF="2_4_file_pane.html">file
pane</A> of the main window.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">The image Dimensions column of the
result list will only contain dimension information when comparing by
dimensions, or when the data is easily available from memory or has
been read from the cache.</P>
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<P><U>Status bar</U></P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">Along the bottom of the Find
Duplicates window is an area that displays the count of files
contained in the window, and the number of files in the result list.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">The status bar will also display the
status of an active compare operation using the progress bar. A
compare operation involves 2 or 3 stages, depending on the type of
comparison. These are the stages in order:</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 1.58in">1) If necessary, extra data is read
into memory for the comparison stage, the progress bar will indicate
this stage with text that resembles &ldquo;reading dimensions...&rdquo;,
&ldquo;reading checksums...&rdquo;, or &ldquo;reading similarity
data...&rdquo;. <BR>2) The images are compared using the selected
method, the progress bar will indicate this stage with the text
&ldquo;comparing...&rdquo;.<BR>3) The results are sorted for display,
the progress bar will indicate this stage with the text &ldquo;sorting...&rdquo;.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">Stage 1 is only used for the
Dimensions, Checksum, and Similarity compare methods.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">If the time to complete a stage will
be significant, an estimated time to completion will also be
displayed in the progress bar. The estimated time only refers to the
current stage, other stages are not included in the estimate. The
time estimate is displayed using the format MINUTES:SECONDS.</P>
<P><BR><BR>
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<P><U>Thumbnails</U></P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">Thumbnails can be displayed beside
each image in the result list by enabling the Thumbnails check box.</P>
<P><BR><BR>
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<P><U>Compare two file sets</U></P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">Sometimes it is useful to compare one
group of files to another, different group of files. Enable this
check box to compare two groups of files. When enabled a second list
will appear, files can be added to this list using the same methods
for the main list.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">When comparing two file sets the
results list will display matches between the two lists. For each
match group, the first file is always from the main group, and the
remaining files are always from the second group.</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><U>Drag and Drop</U></P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">Drag and drop can be initiated with
the primary or middle mouse buttons. Dragging a file that is selected
will include all selected files in the drag. Dragging a file that is
not selected will first change the selection to the dragged file, and
clear the previous selection.</P>
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