[Feature request] Skip poorly-compressible file types based on file magics
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- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
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- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- visualbasic
- Domain
- desktop
Research direction
Start by locating the existing logic that skips poorly compressible files based on extensions. Evaluate a file-magic library for signature detection, retain extension fallback when detection fails, and verify that representative file types are classified correctly.
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Description
Currently only file extensions are taken into account which relies on an often unreliable piece of metadata which is the file name.
The more robust way would be to also check its signature using a file magic library and if it fails fall back to file extension.
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