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Somewhat interestingly, the verification for that kind of copying has always been in place, as the Congruentry feature caters for proving that one location is a perfect subset of another.
However I've so far used other standard tools for copying and felt that copy operations have a lot of edge cases to code for - and I'm lazy about doing that.
I've been reminded that among the unrealised ideas for my Foldatry tool is to give it a feature of a "backup" copy process that's smart enough to not bother copying various useless parts of the folder/file structures.
The cache folders of web browsers is an obvious example but there are probably others that are just not needed in an archive. Perhaps also image thumbnails?
Particular targets would be those with large numbers of tiny files as these often bog down copy and proof processes.
In typical fashion, I started searching for ideas about how to tackle my Python GUI application's need to manage both error handling and user triggered interruptions and cancellations, but ...
Ended up taking another look at the difference between Named Tuples and Dataclasses.
Seems some things have changed since I originally looked at that. As in: more recent Python versions behave differently.
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Today's "only useful in Australia" tip is: when staying somewhere that has limited radio options via the in-house TV service but one is the ABC Kids channel, then that plays nice ambient music at night time.
Discovered this by accident after 9pm. Presumably is for getting children to sleep but makes for good background music while reading.
Today's project: look for tools that can scan sets of video files and check them for corruption or defects. This is likely to be the usual dance of choosing between command line advice, code to trust or a project to adopt.
As this is not a critical need I have, I'll only be considering FOSS options.
Context is having a PVR for time shifting of TV viewing but reception issues cause problems playing back some files so I'd like to know of those before discovering half way through watching.
A minor but useful line of thought - that I got from reading an interview with Gloria Steinem - was to respond to various critiques with the question: "compared to what?"
It can be surprising how well this works - i.e. to highlight when a criticism is just there to sound negative.
Other useful counterparts are:
- "how does this help?"
- "whereas you would have done (/ have us do) what?"
And all these are useful to apply to one's own utterances, as a value check before emitting or publishing.