wimlib

Hi Synchronicity, Wasn't asking you to implement it again, just for advice on porting the code you did on previous versions. By the way, I'm also ok with symlinks if they solve the problem. I also think it's not more dangerous using a beta software than using an option. If you do use one of them, yo...

My use case is that I sometime work on a project, that takes big data files form librairies, but on another computer. I have to make copies of those librairies and because of project pressure, I don't have time to relocate all the path when I'm back to the original librairie. So I have sometime a lo...

Yes, they were in the original drive. Just discovered them with this. It's a copy protection software. So my games should work when I restore it.

Have you some good way to test the extraction of a wim archive, while protecting the system? I just tried to extract the live system I captured in a directory and now I have crazy file that can't be deleted.

Where should I have a look if I want to port the old Hardlink functionality back in the latest version ? I would be happy if you can help in this task (like what has changed since that would require changes in the old code, where there some known bugs?)

Does someone have a good workflow example of how to make a live system installable from a USB key (after capturing with the new --snapshot example)?

It's a pleasure to test your program. Your support also really makes happy

For deduplication, wimlib already has the sha-1 checksum of each file. Am I right?
So what is the --check option for? A sha-1 for the whole archive or per image?

Yep, sorry. I forgot that even in 2015, explorer still doesn't use an API for long path names that was created in 2002. 13 years after, microsoft still doesn't support it's own API
Ok, you are right. Then I'll try to do a bit-comparison of the 2 folders (original and extracted one)

I also checked the difference in file count. Windows explorer reports 463 000 files, Wimlib scanned 441475. I have a lot of Hardlinks and junctions on the drive. It can't be due to the junctions as they are for folders containing 90 000 files, so the difference would be much higher. So is it due to ...