[wish] When duplicate files are found, make hard links

[lchiocca]

Hi everyone,

Here the problem I was facing: I am currently downloading roughly the entire MSDN subscription in english, german and french (Yes, its big ). After a while I found out that a couple of files are actually duplicates of certain other products. So I started a "find duplicate files" in TC and started hard linking the duplicate files (I used LinkShellExtension).

I would be kind of cool, if I could create hard links (or symbolic links in Vista/7) directly in the "search for duplicate files" screen.

Cheers
Loris

[MVV]

I think this is too much special task.

It is sad that TC doesn't allow to export duplicates list anyway - if I feed list to panel and save, I'll lose dividers. I think TC should export dividers too in such cases.

BTW, I googled a bit and may suggest to try this: http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/finddupe/ - it's small and open-source tool that may fully realize your wish.

[lchiocca]

I must admit, that being able to export the list might be better as a first step. Being able to hard link the duplicates might be a second. Although with that little program you linked, it might just as well do the trick. Thanks for that!