Watch files for removal while showing Duplicates in TUI/GUI

[sfleiter]

I just used the program for the first time while having used alternatives like dupeguru in the past.

Looking at the results I immediately saw that I want to delete some folders (older Jetbrains RustRover version folders).
After dooing that a lot of the files in there were still shown all over the place.
The easiest solution was to restart the scan.

If dskDitto would watch the files (f.e. with fsnotify) it could detect that and remove the entries from the list allowing parallel cleanup from outside the program.

[jdefrancesco]

Hmm not sure I follow. Did you wait till the end of the scan to remove dups or what not. It doesn't track files in real time via fsnotify or anything but that being said I should provide some locking to prevent weird race states if those files change while running the scan...

[sfleiter]

Here is what I do

• let dskDitto scan for dupes and wait for the results
• see duplicates of many files caused f.e. by a Jebrains IDE folder for an old version I do not need anymore, but also could be a local disk backup or having the same files in a local folder as well as cloud storage, ....
• delete the folder of the old version in my shell (or finder)

Expected

• dskDitto updates the UI to remove exactly those duplicates that were deleted (if there are more duplicates of the same file theu still should be show of course).

Actual

• No change in TUI, the deleted files are still shown as dupes
• With duplicate folders with many files you now have to scroll a lot to find still relevant dupes

I hope that explains it.
Feel free to reach out otherwise.

[jdefrancesco]

Hmm. That's an interesting idea! I will put that on my task list. Of course contributions are welcome if you get time for PR.