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Originally Posted by Tommy B.
As long as the files are stored in the same folder, yes.
In my case, the files have different content while the name is the same for several files (fours seasons of Futurama). Each season has it's own folder where the episodes are stored as numbered files.
Maybe it would be better to at least check for the path+filename and then exclude the files or use crc-checking in case there are really two exactly the same files where extracting would be senseless.
On a second though: shouldn't it be the USER who decides whether file-extraction makes sense or not?
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OK, I understand what you're saying, however, mkvcleaver allows you to extract to source folder as well as any one folder of your choice. What you're proposing would work if the extracted files were always output to the source folder, but if a user chooses a destination folder then we would have a lot of mess.
Well, what if you don't intend on choosing a destination folder and want everything output to the source folders ? Then how would mkvcleaver know what you're intending to do from the beginning ? And what, if you change your mind ? How will mkvcleaver know which files to remove from the list ? Ok, we can use crc to tell mkvcleaver which file is which regardless of the filename, right ? Wrong ! Imagine you have a collection of bluray movies, let's say 60 of them, each one is at least 20 gigs. Try running crc on those files, it will take minutes for each file then multiply that by 60. And that's just to add files to the list.
And we have your last suggestion; to allow users to decide what makes sense. How would that work ? What would users decide ? And what about the users who don't want to decide, they just want it to make sense automatically ?