is there a search tool for similar folder names?

[Togijak]

DupeHunter is a tool to find similar pictures and something like that I need for similar folder names. I have a space where I store downloaded software and the result can be, that there are 5 different version from a tool but the version # is different = no normal way to find unneeded duplicates (I don't want to keep more than 2 versions). 

 

Any idea?

[debebee]

change the way you organize uour files..   no program can sense older versions of several apps

[rktdroid999]

Hello @Togijak

If u would explain more I could give a more detailed explanation.....U can use windows search for file version

like this go to any folder>search>system.fileversion:=1.12.0.0

Here u will search any file with exact file version 1.12.0.0

now look at this one

system.filename:~=AmazingCharts AND system.filename:~>exe AND system.fileversion:>6.7.0

this one will

• The first parameter searches for all files that contain the words 'AmazingCharts' somewhere in the filename value.
• The second parameter isolates the search for all files that END in exe
• The third parameter further filters the search results to those values that is greater than 6.7.0.(as the sign is ">" greater than)

Source http://superuser.com/questions/821547/windows-search-using-file-version-field
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more helpful links

http://www.howtogeek.com/school/learning-windows-search/lesson5/

http://www.howtogeek.com/73065/learn-the-advanced-search-operators-in-windows-7/

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa965711(v=vs.85).aspx

 

Hope that helps to some extent

 

 

[Togijak]

Just found this

 

PIDKey 2.1.1 Build 1006 By Ratiborus
PIDKey v2.0.8.1002
PIDKey v2.0.8.b1001
PIDKey v2.0.9.1000

 

If the tool would be able to ignore numbers it could show me that there are 4 folders with the same name. Normal I use Mythicsoft FileLocator Pro to find files / folders but there is no option to ignore numbers. If a tool like Dupehunter is able to find similar pictures (that works fine) there must be a way to find similar folders / files

[debebee]

learn touse wildcards in mythicsoft ex pidkey*.*

http://www.howtogeek.com/school/learning-windows-search/lesson4/

 

or learn regular expressions wilcards

 

dupe Hunter uses crc comparisons..  which wont work for different versions of apps.. 

 

[debebee]

http://www.howtogeek.com/school/learning-windows-search/lesson4/

[Togijak]

12 minutes ago, teodz1984 said:

or learn regular expressions wilcards

 

I think that is the best hint 

[straycat19]

I use windows explorer. I store a lot of data, programs I want to play with (and never have the time) and other things such as ripped music, email archives, etc and mostly they are stored by year.  So I can have multiple items across multiple NAS units and drives.   It can search an entire drive or even multiple drives for files and folders.  For example, if I select 'Computer' and enter 'pidkey' in the 'search computer' box it will search every hard drive, including all five of my NAS units for any file or folder that has pidkey as part of the name.  I use it all the time and it is quite fast.

[debebee]

^ Windows Wildcards  are Pretty much the same thing with any explorer replacement program

Total Commander, FAR, XYplorer, etc

or search engine

Search Everything, Mythicsoft, etc

 

 

 

 

[debebee]

WILDCARDS

A wildcard character is a keyboard character such as an asterisk (*) or a question mark (?) that is used to represent one or more characters when you are searching for files, folders, printers, computers, or people. Wildcard characters are often used in place of one or more characters when you do not know what the real character is or you do not want to type the entire name. 

 

Asterisk (*)

Use the asterisk as a substitute for zero or more characters. If you are looking for a file that you know starts with "gloss" but you cannot remember the rest of the file name, type the following:

gloss*

This locates all files of any file type that begin with "gloss" including Glossary.txt, Glossary.doc, and Glossy.doc. To narrow the search to a specific type of file, type:

gloss*.doc

This locates all files that begin with "gloss" but have the file name extension .doc, such as Glossary.doc and Glossy.doc.

Question mark (?)

Use the question mark as a substitute for a single character in a name. For example, if you type gloss?.doc, you will locate the file Glossy.doc or Gloss1.doc but not Glossary.doc.

If you want to learn more advanced wilcard look into this:

http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorial.html

 

Basically, a regular expression is a pattern describing a certain amount of text. Their name comes from the mathematical theory on which they are based. But we will not dig into that. You will usually find the name abbreviated to "regex" or "regexp". This tutorial uses "regex", because it is easy to pronounce the plural "regexes". On this website, regular expressions are highlighted in red as regex.

This first example is actually a perfectly valid regex. It is the most basic pattern, simply matching the literal text regex. A "match" is the piece of text, or sequence of bytes or characters that pattern was found to correspond to by the regex processing software. Matches are highlighted in blue on this site.

\b[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,}\b is a more complex pattern. It describes a series of letters, digits, dots, underscores, percentage signs and hyphens, followed by an at sign, followed by another series of letters, digits and hyphens, finally followed by a single dot and two or more letters. In other words: this pattern describes an email address. This also shows the syntax highlighting applied to regular expressions on this site. Word boundaries and quantifiers are blue, character classes are orange, and escaped literals are gray. You'll see additional colors like green for grouping and purple for meta tokens later in the tutorial.

With the above regular expression pattern, you can search through a text file to find email addresses, or verify if a given string looks like an email address. This tutorial uses the term "string" to indicate the text that the regular expression is applied to. This website highlights them in green. The term "string" or "character string" is used by programmers to indicate a sequence of characters. In practice, you can use regular expressions with whatever data you can access using the application or programming language you are working with.

Additiopnal tutorial:

https://regexone.com/