Thomas Hurst

Results 22 issues of Thomas Hurst

The compresstimator currently cuts-off at 0.95 - it might be nice to make this value (and indeed compresstimation in general) configurable so users can choose between quickly getting the low-hanging...

enhancement

Files that get updated a lot, particularly if they're large, are poor candidates for compaction. An obvious simple heuristic that seems likely to be relatively effective is to check file...

enhancement

We've just had one release fixing a data corruption issue, and another one fixing a CPU use bug, and I have limited reach to inform people of these updates. At...

enhancement

When testing an updated i386 build, it's noted that the path database does not filter out known-incompressibles found by the 64-bit build. This doesn't really make sense since the databases...

bug

Offer a read-only dry-run mode using the compression API, simulating the effects of compacting a folder without actually doing it. This allows for a safe way to present a user...

enhancement

Following [this Reddit thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/cm8ule/new_alternative_to_compact_gui_that_shrinks_your/ew4vofu/), it would clearly be useful to warn the user if the selected folder can't be compressed. There is literally a function for doing exactly this, I...

enhancement

There's like, 3 pixels left in this bar and it accounts for about 2/3rds of the data...

enhancement

I notice the Makefile has a test target, but it points at a non-existing `test.sh`. compare_jdupes.sh doesn't work properly, since the output of each group of files differs (this in...

feature request

FreeBSD supports multiple concurrent versions of Java by way of [`javavmwrapper`](https://www.freshports.org/java/javavmwrapper/), a script which dispatches to the appropriate installation based on the `JAVA_VERSION` environment variable and other configurations. This conflicts...

I've had a local patch for the #122 buffer overrun for six months now - unfortunately I'd quite forgotten about it. Now reminded I return and the first thing I...