Separate panel sort setting for FTLed Dups search results

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Separate panel sort setting for FTLed Dups search results

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When pressing Feed to listbox after search for Duplicates, the groups of files (those with dashed line as divider) in panel always become sorted by setting defined for panel. When I try then to sort search results by other criteria, it breaks groups of files. This happens often since I often change the sorting to another defined by plugin field.

So I suggest to add a separate Total Commander panel sorting setting (with auto-saving if changed) active only when results of Search for Duplicates are on the panel.
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Re: Separate panel sort setting for FTLed Dups search results

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Actually there could be several commands to set the order of groups by different creteria, e.g.:
A-Z/Z-A sort of groups by A-Z/Z-A sort within each group - by filenames in group or by paths in group;
by smallest/largest file in each group;
by number of duplicates in each duplicates group;
by combined size of files within each duplicates group;
etc.

This can be comined with sort by above criterias (when could be applied) for files in each group, so if we have e.g. following duplicate groups:
---groupA---
dupnameA1 c:\
dupnameA2 d:\
dupnameA3 e:\
---groupB---
dupnameB1 c:\
dupnameB2 d:\
dupnameB3 f:\

we could apply a command like:
cm_SortInDupGroupByFileSize
to sort the files in each group by size,
and another command, like cm_SortDupGroupsByFiileSize,
to sort the groups by largest/smallest file in each.

Maybe it could be a good option to use default and custom columns for sorting by file properties within each duplicate group, so this way sorting by columns wouldn't break the groups.
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Re: Separate panel sort setting for FTLed Dups search results

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2DrShark
I would add sort order to "Find files" dialog window. When you press "Feed to listbox", you can use Num+ to see needed files.
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