Bug 397406

When duplicate file names are downloaded and automatically renamed with no prompt they have ' (1)' added to the file name. This string is not searchable with the normal search tools provided by the desktop. These file names can't be found with Dolphin or kfind. In my case it was due to actual identical duplicate files in every sense so the find duplicates tool only helps in locating them but not easily deleting the nearly 700 photos within a range of 160 directories and the thousands of other photos and videos where they were all downloaded to.

I know this is because of changed behavior where the prompt for duplicate was taken away, but the biggest issue is the hours I spent finding a reliable way to find all the images and rename them or move them because they used parentheses. If the files were just renamed without using special characters and the space then searching for them would me much simpler with your typical desktop tools without having to resort to regex or piped commands which is how I was able to find all these files in 8 months worth of folders. I know it is trivial for some to do some regex and pipe some commands to find or do anything but for most it is not and the complexity or limitations involved with the tools provided by the desktop can leave a person frustrated due to some relatively minor choices in file names.