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MalloyDelacroix / DownloaderForReddit

The Downloader for Reddit is a GUI application with some advanced features to extract and download submitted content from reddit.
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save_file.dat is rather big #243

Closed thany closed 2 years ago

thany commented 2 years ago

Describe the bug The file save_file.dat has grown to an unwieldy 3.5GB. That's a bit much, isn't it?

There needs to be a way to safely clean up this file, be it automatically or manually, without losing any significant information. I'm pretty sure it doesn't need all that 3.5GB for normal everyday downloads. It probably saves already-downloaded filenames, but it doesn't need to save any filenames older than the maximum age setting, for instance.

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During this, you should see the save_file.dat expanding forever.

MalloyDelacroix commented 2 years ago

You are using a version of the app that has been obsolete for some time now. The size of the old style save files is one of the main reasons that we switched to an SQLite backend. This is no longer an issue.

thany commented 2 years ago

Unless there's something I'm missing, can you make a stable 3.x release then?