sahib / rmlint

Extremely fast tool to remove duplicates and other lint from your filesystem
http://rmlint.rtfd.org
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Shredder doesn't stop rmlint or du on close and doesn't impose a limit #653

Open tbertels opened 3 months ago

tbertels commented 3 months ago

When we open Shredder, it starts du to find out and display the space usage of each location. If we then start scanning a location, Shredder starts rmlint while keeping du working. This is especially bad for a hard disk. If we click on the "refresh" button on bottom left, Shredder starts an additional rmlint process, while keeping the previously running process active. We can repeat this any number of times to start additional rmlint processes. If we then close Shredder, it will keep the previously started processed running uselessly, so we have to manually close them in a task manager.

Shredder should: