Could Rev do this?

[Alex Tweedly]

Alex Tweedly wrote:

> 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 ...
>
Not quite as easy as I remember - especially if you want anyone else to 
be able to use it !!

Uploaded to RevOnline under username alextweedly, category Utilities, as 
"Duplicate finder"
Not the prettiest stack even I have written, and doesn't have all the 
robustness checks a commercial product would have - but does what it 
needs to do.

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Alex Tweedly       http://www.tweedly.net



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