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safijari / Shotty

A plugin to automatically aggregate Steam Deck screenshots in a local folder
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Suggestion: Allow option to choose between copy and link #3

Closed OpenBagTwo closed 8 months ago

OpenBagTwo commented 1 year ago

Given that I'd potentially want to use your plugin as a way of doing actual backups

When I ask the plugin to aggregate my screenshots

Then I'd like for there to be able to specify in the UI whether I want the aggregated files to be hard links (your default, as I understand it), symlinks or straight-up independent copies

So that if I choose to modify a screenshot in am external photo editor or delete the screenshot from the Steam UI that it only affects the original / aggregated copy if I've so chosen.

As with my other suggestion, the python is simple, and I'd be happy to learn the Javascript if this is a contribution you're open to having.

safijari commented 1 year ago

You can double check this but I'm pretty sure hardlinks already achieve what you want. If you save over a hard link it'll start pointing towards a new inode. The old inode will still exist and will continue to do so until the original file (which mind you is also a hardlink, all files in Linux are) is pointing to it.

I'm not opposed to options but I don't think they're needed here.