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Barry - have you tried the right-click menu? That has location based selection tools in addition to the Sel Assistant.

I'll look at making it non-modal though.

This works fairly decent. Better than I've seen others do.

However, I managed to delete a whole directory that was duped via other means, but didn't unmark the file that led me to find that in the first place.

It blew up on me because it couldn't find the file. I opted to quit instead of continue (which was silly on my part, a blown rm() shouldn't really matter, but it was unexpected...). You could check to see if the file is still there and then do it, or practically ignore any errors on the delete. Or at least watch for the one that says the file doesn't exist.

I ran into another issue. Let's see if I can remember it now (mind's a steel trap! Rusted open!)

Sorting is an issue. Groups need to be kept together first, then sorted by the key. A pain, but sorting otherwise (by size works fine ) blows the list apart.

And something else that I really can't remember.

I'll report back when I remember it.

I will give that a shot - thanks,

Meanwhile your beta 2 link is still beta 1

Do you notice the problem with the Not responding?

One other item - when I went in to delete I got the waring that a group was all marked - but it did not tell me the group number so it was insanely hard to find in my list (I gave up), it would be great if the warning showed the group numbers.

Beta 2 should be uploaded corectly - the file name is the same though. (maybe your ISP is caching the old file?)
There is a tool to show 'All selected' groups, it's in the last tab in the sel assistant. It's hidden away though - I may move it out onto the toolbar, and link it from the warning message.

It does sometimes say 'Not Responding' if you click on it while processing - I need to look at getting the processes correctly threaded.

bytehead - thanks for the comments. The delete warnings are a problem i'm aware of, and will try and work around.

OK, NOW I remember what the other thing was that was bothering me.

Even running as administrator, I run into files that DC just won't delete, saying that they are protected. I don't understand how they are protected when I can export the list to .csv and do a little Excel and text editing to get a batch file that seems to have absolutely no problems whatsoever of deleting the files. Even in a run of the mill command prompt.

Also, for those who seem to be getting a cached file, tack a random bit like ?extra=blah, and that should force whatever cache to grab fresh.

And it's nice that there is a tool to show all selected groups, but it's certainly well hidden. At least now I know where it's at!

bytehead - check the options drop-down - you may have 'protect system files' or suchlike ticked

I discovered that I'm running beta 1, not beta 2. My bad.

zum11, these are regular files, nothing marked system, not hidden, but they are second and third generation archives that I am finding that I've duplicated some things rather excessively. Maybe I didn't have to buy that 1.5TB drive after all! So maybe I'm not the owner, but I should be. And if it can be done from a nonadmin command window, DC should be able to.

Is it an error message at the end of the delete session ("4 files were protected"), or a pop-up error during the delete?