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Author: Danilo Reyes <CaptainJawZ@outlook.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 16 10:56:48 2022 -0600

    First commit!

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+# rmlint reduplicate
+
+This is a simple script, to use the leftover rmlint.json file to copy deleted duplicated files back to their original location.
+
+The script is heavely commented, altho the only thing you need to edit is the first variable so it contains the path of your rmlint.json
+
+I do encourage to give the script a read just to vaguely know what it's doing!
+
+Feel free to open issues with suggestions or to ask for help
diff --git a/rmlint_reduplicate.py b/rmlint_reduplicate.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+import json
+import os
+from pathlib import Path
+
+"""
+This is a very simple python script, which only function is to "reduplicate" or rather restore the original
+status of your files after wrongfully running rmlint.
+
+Since rmlint deletes all files with a matching checksum BUT the original, it's possible to use the leftover rmlint.json file
+to copy the original files back into their original destination.
+
+There is only one value which you may technically need to edit, which is the path to your rmlint json down below this comment block
+but, just in case give the document a read
+"""
+
+rmlint_file = "ENTER HERE THE PATH OF YOUR rmlint.json FILE!!!"
+
+with open(rmlint_file, encoding="utf-8") as f:
+    json_data = json.load(f)  # Load the data of the rmlint into a variable
+
+
+def quote(line):
+    """Add quotation marks to the file just to avoid errors"""
+    return '"' + line + '"'
+
+
+def find_value(key, value):
+    """
+    This function, will return the index number for the keys of all the twin files that have matching checksums
+    basically, it will be fed the value of a checksum, and go through the json data and find any files with the same
+    checksum and then return it on an list
+    """
+    list_index = []  # declare empty list
+    for i, dic in enumerate(json_data):
+        if dic.get(key) == value:  # if checksum == checksum
+            list_index.append(i)  # append the index into the list to return
+    return list_index
+
+
+for dic in json_data:
+    # This, is where the magic happens, it will separate the json into individual dictionaires
+    if dic.get("type") == "duplicate_file" and dic.get("is_original") == True:
+        # Looks for original files which belong to duplicated groups
+        checksum = dic.get("checksum")
+        twins = dic.get("twins")
+        # This calls the function, and stores the list of indexes
+        list_index = find_value("checksum", checksum)
+        original_file = dic.get("path")
+        missing_files = []
+        # Checks that the count of twins matches the amount of indexes found, should match
+        if dic.get("twins") == len(list_index):
+            for i in list_index:
+                # Now, it will list only files that were deleted
+                if json_data[i].get("is_original") == False:
+                    # And append them to missing files
+                    missing_files.append((json_data[i].get("path")))
+        """
+        This is unnecesary, but just to make sure that it will ONLY attempt to copy if the original file still exists
+        in my case, I deleted a couple files, which when trying to copy them threw an error, this was a bit scary till I realize
+        those files I actually delted myself, this hopefully makes the experience more seamless for the user
+        """
+        if Path(original_file).exists() == False:
+            print("ERROR!!! the original file is missing, perhaps you deleted it?")
+            print(original_file)
+        else:
+            # RESTORE THE FILES!!!!
+            print("Original file found:")
+            print(original_file)
+            print("Restoring to:")
+            for file in missing_files:
+                os.system("echo " + quote(file))
+                os.system("cp " + quote(str(original_file)) + " " + quote(str(file)))
+        print("______________________")