Issues

• Scan, DryRun, Deduplicate and Stats each copy the path prompt and the scan→hash→group pipeline, so every fix to that path must be made four times

  enhancement
  ktsu-dev/FileDeduplicator#157 · Filter by author matt-edmondson opened on Sep 29, 2026
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• "Error hashing" messages show only the file name, so the failing file can't be found in a tree with repeated names

  enhancement
  ktsu-dev/FileDeduplicator#154 · Filter by author matt-edmondson opened on Sep 29, 2026
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• On Windows, OneDrive and other cloud-synced folders are silently skipped because the scan skips every reparse point, not just symlinks and junctions

  bug
  ktsu-dev/FileDeduplicator#153 · Filter by author matt-edmondson opened on Sep 29, 2026
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• A quoted path pasted at the "Enter the path" prompt is scanned as <cwd>/"<path>" and reported as "Directory not found"

  bug
  ktsu-dev/FileDeduplicator#152 · Filter by author matt-edmondson opened on Sep 29, 2026
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• Deduplicate deletes all but one empty file (__init__.py, .gitkeep, py.typed) while reclaiming 0 bytes

  bug
  ktsu-dev/FileDeduplicator#151 · Filter by author matt-edmondson opened on Sep 28, 2026
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• Every verb reads and SHA-256-hashes every file in full, even files whose size no other file shares

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  ktsu-dev/FileDeduplicator#147 · Filter by author matt-edmondson opened on Sep 27, 2026
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• Stats "Duplicate files by extension" credits a whole group to one random copy's extension, so the breakdown changes between runs and disagrees with "Duplicate files"

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  ktsu-dev/FileDeduplicator#146 · Filter by author matt-edmondson opened on Sep 27, 2026
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• Passing -p . explicitly is treated as "no path" and prompts, swallowing the next stdin line as the path

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  ktsu-dev/FileDeduplicator#145 · Filter by author matt-edmondson opened on Sep 27, 2026
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• Every verb exits with code 0 even when the directory is missing, deletions fail, or the arguments are invalid

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  ktsu-dev/FileDeduplicator#144 · Filter by author matt-edmondson opened on Sep 27, 2026
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• Every verb crashes with "Cannot convert ... to AbsoluteFilePath" if any file in the tree has <, > or | in its name or a path over 256 characters

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  ktsu-dev/FileDeduplicator#140 · Filter by author matt-edmondson opened on Sep 27, 2026
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• Deduplicate deletes the only copy of a file that the scan reaches at two paths (bind mount, directory mounted twice)

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  ktsu-dev/FileDeduplicator#139 · Filter by author matt-edmondson opened on Sep 27, 2026
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• Hardlinked files are deduplicated like independent copies, risking silent data loss in snapshot/backup trees

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  ktsu-dev/FileDeduplicator#132 · Filter by author matt-edmondson opened on Sep 23, 2026
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