D8208: [WIP] Add Duplicate feature

[Nathaniel Graham]

ngraham added a comment.


  In D8208#583990 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D8208#583990>, @elvisangelaccio wrote:
  
  > In D8208#156036 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D8208#156036>, @cfeck wrote:
  >
  > > Why would you need two identical copies of the same file in the same folder? I would imagine that people move the duplicate to a different location (usually to a different physical device) afterwards, and they might not understand the difference to a copy that is created at the new location directly. This is especially bad if the source is on SSD. Every unneeded write to SSD should be avoided.
  > >
  > > TLDR; add a warning that people can hide forever if they understand the consequences.
  >
  >
  > This is a very good point that should be addressed.
  
  
  I don't really understand the concern here, to be honest. It seems like making a mountain out of a molehill. Yes, unneeded writes to SSDs should be avoided, but this feature will surely account for less than one millionth of a percent of all the unneeded writes to a user's SSD. If the user creates a duplicate of a file on an SSD and then moves the duplicated file to an external disk, then yes, an unneeded copy has taken place, but this is something the user could already do half a dozen other ways today. It seems odd to focus on this.

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