brenthuisman
commented
5 months ago It's a good idea (and would have my personal preference as well), and it was discussed and attempted, but since behavior of the relevant flag wasn't consistent across implementations, I removed the option: https://github.com/brenthuisman/par2deep/issues/25
Hey @brenthuisman
First of all thanks a lot for par2deep!
I think a very handy addition would be the option to store the par2 files and raw parity data files in another folder or a subfolder instead of alongside the files to protect...
This option could be set inside the par2deep.ini file or passed via a command line option...like -pardir DIRECTORY for example.
I understand that being a recursive utility it could lead to conflicts if used a subfolder but maybe automatically adding the folder with all the par2 files and parity data to exclusions if would solve this cleanly... Or if it's tricky maybe just using a fixed subfolder called something like P2D_PARITY which is always ignored?
The customisable option would be much better of course because could enable users to have for example a centralized "parity archive" if they prefer it so get additional functionality with this feature, not only being able to have cleaner directories.
This would be extremely useful I think when dealing with a directory already filled with thousands of files, to keep things separate when needed/preferred ;-)
What do you think?