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facelessuser / Rummage

Rummage is a GUI for grep like searches in Python
https://facelessuser.github.io/Rummage/
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Backups to global folder #469

Open sojusnik opened 3 hours ago

sojusnik commented 3 hours ago

Would it be possible to add an option to do backups into a configurable global folder in addition to the existing option to save into a subfolder of the replaced file?

Maybe by allowing to provide a full path in the settings where you define the backup folder, like ~/Rummage-Backups or /tmp/Rummage? So when a full path is present, then the backups are always saved to the same global folder and not a subfolder any more?

facelessuser commented 3 hours ago

Well, with a global folder, you could have issues where you could have multiple files with the same name (in different directories) overwriting each other. It gets tricky. Even if you try to preserve folder structure.

Is the problem that you find it difficult to clean up the folders or files afterwards? It's likely we could add a command to delete them all when you want to clean them up. I can understand that being an annoying problem, and a way to clean them up once you are satisfied you didn't destroy your documents might be nice.

To be honest, because most of the things I'm applying replace to are in version controlled repositories, I never enable backups as the version control systems make it easy to revert such changes.