jestarr

I have not touched the game for a few years, but I recently am trying to get everything going again.  Over the years I have built up quite a large plugins collection. 

I am testing out the new SC4Pac mod organizer and the Submenus DLL. 

I am also trying to eliminate duplicate files from my plugins, as well as replacing the old files with newer versions using the mod.  I was testing the SC4Pac out with reinstalling the BSC Mega Props JES Vol 2 dependency. Since the SC4Pac does not seem to touch the 075 folder, I ended up manually downloading the package just to get the Cleanitol file to run in the 075 folder.  The Cleanitol file said to remove the BSC Mega Props jestarr Vol02.dat file, along with several other files such as jes_BallardsBallandJacksFactory-0x5ad0e817_0x7484f912_0x30000.SC4Model, but did not recommend removing what I believe to be an actually duplicate of BSC Mega Props JES Vol2, but "BSC Mega Props - JES Vol02.dat" with the same same as the dependency I used to install with SC4Pac.

I tried to use I live reader to compare the two files and look for those other files like BallardBallandJacksFactory within those two files.  For the latter, I ended up searching the exemplars of BallardBallandJacksFactory within the Mega Props Jes Vol 2 file and came up empty.

It is great to see that you are still contributing to the SimCity 4 community.  Considering the extent of your work, I am really hoping that I may find guidance on a few questions based on what I have just attempted to describe:

Why would a Cleanitol file recommend removing items not included in the prop package?

Why would a Cleanitol file not recommend common name variant of the same file? 

Is there a way to compare two files in a time functional manner to determine if they are just duplicates with a different name or part of another collection?