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True. It doesnt 'freeze' a filesystem. Its written to handle a tree in flux (you might move/delete files), and all you have to do it move the par2 along. Backups would protect against deletions, par2deep against bitrot.

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Hi. I tried it out with some random pictures and par2deep wasnt able to generate the par2 file for one of them. The error was createdfiles_err. I used the GUI on win10, the file names are of normal length, file permissions are the same as for the others. I can send it to you for testing if you want

Sure, if you can, file an Issue on Github!

Did you try manually creating parity for that file (using par2cmdline)?

I almost did but I tried something else and found the likely reason: the file name contained an "ä". Par2deep also fails when there's a CJK character in the filename. After removing these non-ascii characters it works. But this bug is going to cause problems for many people.

Edit: filed a bug report

The joys of pre-UTF8 software :) You're right to point it out, however, the speed at which par2cmdline accepts PRs (~0/yr), consider it unfixable. I'm looking into https://github.com/akalin/gopar and this may solve this.

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