Richard Gaskin wrote:
Maybe not. I was thinking about the same problem here the other day,
and wile I haven't written anything yet it occurred to me that Rev's
MD5 function could probably be useful: you'd make a list of all the
files, read each file into a variable and run the variable through
MD5, and then any matching MD5 keys are likely duplicates.
Anyone here see a weakness to that crude approach?
It should work. In fact, I wrote a stack to do that (for music files)
last year and it worked OK for them. Only weakness was that it was slow
- I considered adding an "index file" to each directory, which would
store the file names and md5 signatures, but hadn't got as far as doing
that.
Other weakness -I decided it wasn't worth adding refinements because it
was a one-off effort to merge two lots of music files and I got it
completed OK before I had refined the stack, so I didn't keep the stack :-(
I'll try re-creating it from memory and see if it's as easy as I
remember ...
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