Thread: [GUI Plugin] Find Duplicates
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Old 10-12-2022, 07:12 PM   #992
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Originally Posted by TheMadGuy View Post
Could you maybe keep in mind that it also doesn#t find "Christian" / "Christina"
In my actual case they are two different writers, but I also had a misspelling once....
Soundex finds the Christian/Christina example. Similar searches will *never* find misspellings, you have to rely on the other algorithms for that.

I just now realised that this solves this query too from a couple of pages ago:
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Originally Posted by Winnito View Post
I'm puzzled how when I do "similar" search in Metadata duplicates it can't find what I guess should be obvous hits like:

Doe, John
Doe, John L.

I have so many authors in my database with and without their middle names, but can't find most of them in duplicate.

Similar gives nothing, Fuzzy gives 20x more false positives...not even close to being useful. Am I missing something? TNx
Back then I didn't have the time to properly read/understand what was being asked for - tonight this change will solve the issue for Winnito too.
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