UI and workflow enhancements (remember toggle, show amount, next page, path, etc) #156
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Description
I'm currently going through 3261 matched groups, so I've been listing some stuff that would help me a LOT clearnig it all faster.
Amount of shown duplicate groups(ignore, just found it under settings, I was looking at - wrong settings :-/ )!!This is very important!!
I know default 5 groups is to make UI snappy, but when you have 100's of duplicates, you'd rather have more on one page. Specially when each next page involves re-clicking toggle groups
There could be a simple dropdown to select showing 5-10-20-50-100 (could be predefined options, as long as there's some with larger numbers)
Toggle groups
Every time I click on next page I have to click
Toggle groups
, why not remember it, or add a setting to remember the toggle statusShow path(ignore, just found it under settings, I was looking at - wrong settings :-/ )Yes, when I mouseover image, I get full path, but if I could have eg 50 groups open, and if I could see paths under/over/beside thumbnails I could easily spot if I have a whole folder full of dupes (or duplicated folder in itself)
Refresh count
Currently when I spot a folder with dupes, I delete folder in another window, then click next page button in MediaDC. But collapsed groups show titles like group #555 (3 files) , yet when I click "Toggle groups" it quickly switches to
1 file
and shows just 1 thumbnail.It would be better if count was refreshed on next page load.
Next page link on bottom
When you open 5 groups (toggle), you need to scroll down a little to see last groups, even on large display, and once you see all 5 are now without dupes - you need to scroll back up to click next page. Having link to next page on the bottom would be helpful. Even a link to "scroll to top" would be slightly faster than scrolling. At the moment I keep tapping Home button, but .. yeah.. 700x "Home" still takes time
Refresh display
When I delete whole folder or many photos in different window, I need to go back a page, then forward a page to where I was, because there's no refresh. Well, that or refreshing browser, but that throws me to page 1, so back-forward a page is quicker. Still, having a refresh/reload button for current page would be even faster.
all of it combined
Now, I get super-duper results, and I'm very very thankful! But if above would all exist right now, I could set my group display to 50 groups, with toggle always on, and paths showing. Click next page, see that first 10+ photos are all dupes and grouped in some folder, go open a folder in new tab/window, delete whole folder (after quick manual check it's all dupes), go back to MediaDC duplicate list, click refresh of current group, scroll quickly to confirm all 50 photos now have single file/thumbnail, and when I reach bottom click the "next page" link at the bottom of the list. If I've deleted folder with 500 dupes, then I just scroll all 50 again, next, scroll 50, next, and it solves 500 dupes in a minute.
Alternative, as is, is that I notice and delete folder with 500 dupes, than click back, click forward, toggle, scroll 5 down, scroll 5 up, click next page, click toggle, scroll down, scroll up, next, toggle... so many repeated clicks just to confirm dupes are gone. I'll probably just skip 100 pages, confirm last few, then re-run the job, it will be faster (and doesn't require me at the computer screen clicking). But I could save me a re-compute if I could just list more files in one page (even if rest of suggestions are ignored or discarded, that no1 request/suggestion would be a life saver in situations like mine right now!)(leaving this as a testament to my stupidity)I'll probably stumble upon something else along the way, so I'll expand the post as needed.
Edit:
Delete file "bug"
When I click "Delete file" button on a single duplicate, my page numbers get messed up, I stay on same page, but suddenly that page shows thumbnails / groups that are several pages away. Going out of dupe list and back into the task, then to page I just was before deleting file then shows correct groups/images again.
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