- Aug 28, 2018
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I have been using Clonespy for dupe check since it has a database to store the hashes so rechecking the same files is faster then rehashing all those 500k files every time. If you do pickup the torch and make an awesome “deduper var manager”, please make a database for hashes. I tried so many synchronize and compare progs that waste time not having a database for faster checks. I have to use many progs just to trim dupes. Even got a prog to remove empty directories vacuum + varbsorb sometimes leave behind. I had to use a stock VAM install to fix most issues. Last var I made had 1000 looks for vam legacy files and vacuum kept adding male textures to the girls. I temp removed all male assets then ran vacuum and it fixed all looks correctly since it had no males to pollute the girl’s ref links. Made it into a var and got nice tight small var file of 1000 looks.Oh sh*t, might explain the few problems I get. Like I have sometimes 4 dupes. But no reflink error from what I opened.
Earlier I posted a small script I did in Python to process vars (sorting, checking deps, ..). But not any comparison with old style dirs cause.. it's such a mess in my Vam dirsI can't understand the logic if any. There's probably not much to do to compare both dirs, I'll have a look. Or reinstall and only download vars..
Well I do know you can remove all custom folders from the Morph assets so you only need female, female gen, male and male gen folders and everything works. But the clothing and hair need the folders so I cannot remove the checksum dupes. I haven’t bother to find out why they need the folder structure to work. It seems vacuum and varbsorb only work with json files for updating not scripts. For regular maintenance I exclude all male asset folder from dupe checker when scanning for female files then swap for male scanning. They usually share dupe names both male and female assets but is needed unless changing all json ref links and assets by hand for one unique file target.
