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adrianlopezroche / fdupes

FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories.
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Finding duplicate files including files in archives #189

Closed Mathias-U1F596 closed 2 months ago

Mathias-U1F596 commented 5 months ago

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.

jbruchon commented 5 months ago

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.