>there's files I've downloaded multiple times and I forgot where it was

why

thanks god my system alerts me from double files if im about to make some

saves so much space

how do you do that

to not have that "CV.PDF" n+3 times in your computer

i have shitold script that does it for me

its legacy code i did for one company back in the years

basicly just hashes of files and if they match = alert

initilizin scan takes good while and on large systems database can take some time

but most of the time it works

never bothered to actualy fix some larger bugs

(it does not handle dashes on filenames and such)

i bet i could sell it to some chink shitware company for few bucks

wonder why nobody has ever done it before

made an app like that

cause its major PITA

bet it'll be extremely useful in enterprise levels

and on larger sets it punishes the HDD quite badly

(always doublechecking hashes and if hashes match then it checks possible other things)

sure current languages could make it far better

also it breaks if its DB file is manualy removed

then you need to run initialization scan again

its just far easier to use software like dupeguru or such

and make timed rule for week at 8am

instead scanning all new created files instantly

man I cant believe this old HDD I bought is 8 years old

and it's still ticking

avg HDD takes around 3-4 years worth of hours (online) before it starts breaking

from personal experience

yeah

I know

had one wiht 6 years

I have one that's like 10 years old

maybe more

ran like a beaty until one day it just didnt wake from its slumber anymore

;_;

but I use it for external storage

6 years as in runtime hours

didn't have the heart to throw it away

not as in made 6 years ago