Nice. While not as easy to use, I quickly threw together a similar tool that I wrote in python to help me find duplicates while keeping files separated in subdirectories. All it does is list filename duplicates, and it also treats ".tpc" as an alias for ".tga"; but of course it will also find other file types. It doesn't delete anything or have a GUI (yet?) but I figured I'd post it here in case you or someone else may find it useful.
The game can use both .tpc and .tga files for its textures. If you install lots of mods it can easily happen that you get textures in your override folder both in .tpc and .tga. The game usually doesnt care and just prefers to use the .tpc (but with some textures that can cause issues such as objects becoming suddenly transparent). This "mod" (more accurately tool) tries to solve 2 problems. One if you like previously mentioned have lots of mods installed, the size of duplicate files can easily be in the multiple GB region, which is just wasting lots of space on your harddrive for no good reason. This tool can search through thousands of files in seconds instead of having to do it manually and delete them accordingly. And secondly the tool has a mode to search manually, instead of deleting automatically, so if it finds a duplicate it asks the user before deleting so the user can delete specific files that are causing problems or are from 2 different mods to solve mod compatibility in a more time efficient manner. If you dont know why you would need it, you probably dont need it.
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If you install lots of mods it can easily happen that you get textures in your override folder both in .tpc and .tga.
The game usually doesnt care and just prefers to use the .tpc (but with some textures that can cause issues such as objects becoming suddenly transparent).
This "mod" (more accurately tool) tries to solve 2 problems.
One if you like previously mentioned have lots of mods installed, the size of duplicate files can easily be in the multiple GB region, which is just wasting lots of space on your harddrive for no good reason. This tool can search through thousands of files in seconds instead of having to do it manually and delete them accordingly.
And secondly the tool has a mode to search manually, instead of deleting automatically, so if it finds a duplicate it asks the user before deleting so the user can delete specific files that are causing problems or are from 2 different mods to solve mod compatibility in a more time efficient manner.
If you dont know why you would need it, you probably dont need it.