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One question and one suggestion <---- that rhymes

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OK... basicly i'd like to know if it's possible to search over several drives. What i want to do is to look for duplicate files on two drives, say C: and D: .... normally when i look for dupes i do a search with the advanced feature "search for duplicates" or whatever its called, but i cant see how to do this so that directories on different volumes are looked into.

Then i have a small idea, wouldnt it be cool to have a "MakeTorrent"-plugin that would make a bittorrent file out of a selected file or dir ... ?

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Re: One question and one suggestion <---- that rhymes

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sybariten wrote:basicly i'd like to know if it's possible to search over several drives.
Just separate your starting directories using ";" in the <Search in> field. So, in your case it should be: C:\;D:\ or even simpler C:;D:
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Re: One question and one suggestion <---- that rhymes

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pdavit wrote:
sybariten wrote:basicly i'd like to know if it's possible to search over several drives.
Just separate your starting directories using ";" in the <Search in> field. So, in your case it should be: C:\;D:\ or even simpler C:;D:
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Post by *icfu »

You get the same result when you press "Drives"-button in search dialog and keep Ctrl-Key pressed (or Shift) when clicking on the drives... ;)
You can press F1 in each dialog (drives dialog for example) in TC to directly jump to the correct place in online help, too.

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Post by *Lefteous »

2sybariten
Another way to achieve this is to set a mount point for every volume into a directory (C:\Volumes). Now select the desired volumes and start the search.

Example:
C:\Volumes\Hard Disk 1
C:\Volumes\Hard Disk 2
C:\Volumes\Hard Disk 3
C:\Volumes\Optical 1
C:\Volumes\Optical 2
C:\Volumes\Optical 3
C:\Volumes\Optical 4
C:\Volumes\USB 1

and so on
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icfu wrote:You get the same result when you press "Drives"-button in search dialog and keep Ctrl-Key pressed (or Shift) when clicking on the drives... ;)
... or you can just press "local harddisks" above the "ok" button. :D
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