Written by moose the 30 Jun 09 at 17:25.
Not an idea
Today I searched some files on my external hdd with ~ 300 GB of data. This took quite some time. After the results came, I wanted to view one folder. So I opened this folder and wanted to go back to the searchresults after I looked in this folder. The problem was that nautilus began again to search for the files again.
Written by moose the 20 Apr 09 at 12:10.
Already implemented
There are some programs / files that need root access to use them. Sometimes there is only an alert that you don't have the rights to execute / delete / save this program / file.
This should only be an option. If you want to compare two files the size of the files should be checked and you should get a warning if they are very big. If they are small enough a bitwise comparison should be possible.
This could be an example (quite bad because its in german and I'm not a designer ... if someone could make a better one it would be nice):
http://www.martin-thoma.de/ubuntu/warning.png