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Finding duplicate files including files in archives

Open Mathias-U1F596 opened this issue 10 months ago • 1 comments

Archives files shall be treated (not only as files, but also) as folders and scans for duplicates to find duplicate files in archives as well.

Mathias-U1F596 avatar Apr 17 '24 12:04 Mathias-U1F596

This would require pulling in an external dependency that can decompress several compressed formats, but also some pretty heavy changes in logic since it's a lot less practical to modify or delete the file within the archive. Repacking archives requires shifting all data after the deletion at a minimum and completely rebuilding the entire archive at worst. It would be a nice feature, but it is a technically challenging one to add. Decompression time and indicating progress so the user doesn't think the program has locked up could also become an issue.

jbruchon avatar Apr 17 '24 13:04 jbruchon