Anton

One more consideration. Your program reports the final size of the deleted file as 0%, so it knows that the file was deleted. You may check the presence of file in the code, where 0% was obtained, and if it is zero, restore from the recycling. Regarding mp3 metadata. I did not modify any setting. I checked and found that the checkbox to copy data is set. However, in the optimized files, there were no any D3v2 tags. Could you check that the plugin is called properly? If yes, I can report to developers....

Thank you for the explanations, but problem still exists and its critical. I like your program, because it significantly simplifies optimization process, combing advantages of many plugins. However, this problem makes its usage very risky. File deletion typically happens, when processing big number of files, so it is hard to detect that several files were deleted. I hope you can find the exact problem. I want to pay your attention that the processing time of the deleted files is 0sec, so I can guess,...

Sure I can share. But it seems that the problem is not repeatable. Next time the FO optimizes those files. I suggest you to check the presence of the file after running plugins. It will not fix the source of problem, but prevent losing of files as it happened to me. P.S. If it helps, I used my archive HDD connected via USB.

I did some experiments and found that the problem does not relate to plugins. The same deletion problem was confirmed for other files, see DOC and PDF as examples. Considering that procession is 0 sec, it seems that no plugins were run and the optimizer just deleted the files. I think the optimizer have to check the final file size and if it is zero, restore original version. Before I found the problem I processed several big archives. Some files could be restored from recycling, however it seems...

How can I do it? On Sun, Aug 18, 2024, 20:07 Nikkho nikkho@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Thank you Anton. Can you try to isolate the plugin failing? mp3 files deletion https://sourceforge.net/p/nikkhokkho/discussion/fileoptimizer/thread/0ebd6e5eec/?limit=25#4f9f Sent from sourceforge.net because you indicated interest in https://sourceforge.net/p/nikkhokkho/discussion/fileoptimizer/ To unsubscribe from further messages, please visit https://sourceforge.net/auth/subscriptions/

Dear all, I wanted to optimize my music collection containing about 4,000 mp3 files. After optimization I found that about 10% of files were deleted. Do you have any ideas why? the screenshot is added.