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mholt / photobak

Back up your content from Google Photos - DEPRECATED: use Timeliner
https://github.com/mholt/timeliner
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deduplication: symlinks/hardlinks instead of others.txt #1

Closed saladpanda closed 7 years ago

saladpanda commented 7 years ago

It would be great if you could create symlinks or hardlinks for deduplication instead of creating an others.txt file with paths to photos.

mholt commented 7 years ago

I thought about that, and there are both advantages and disadvantages to either. I simply chose to go with the text file. They're perfectly cross-platform compatible, save on inodes, and are human readable as well as computer-parsable. Thanks for your suggestion!

n03l commented 6 years ago

I think the advantage of having links is that you can view albums with any software (as regular folders full of pictures).

Would it be possible to have this behavior depending on a flag?