Option to create symbolic links and a question

[wontell]

Please, add an option to create symbolic links when deleting/moving files just as there is an option to make hard links.

Edit: Also, I'm using compare content, SHA2-512 and I set the program to extract 7z files but in the scanning window the number of "files extracted" is not the number of 7z files, how does the program compares the files if it's not extracting them? Only just a handful of files are extracted according to the reported number, how does this works? And no, the checksum of the 7z files are not the same, it's impossible for them to be the same because they don't only store the files I expect to be duplicates but other stuff too.

Edit 2: I made another scan with much more files and I'm getting the same results, not all the files are extracted (at least according to the log) and the database was empty so it didn't used any cached checksum:

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25/12/2022 19:18:25 - INFO: Unable to detect VLC Media Player 32-bit version 3 on your system
25/12/2022 19:18:26 - --------------------------------------------------
25/12/2022 19:18:26 - AllDup 4.5.26
25/12/2022 19:18:26 - Search method: File content
25/12/2022 19:18:26 - Comparison method: SHA-2 (512-Bit)
25/12/2022 19:18:26 - Option: Ignore ID3 Tags of MP3 files
25/12/2022 19:18:26 - Option: Ignore metadata of FLAC files
25/12/2022 19:18:26 - Option: Ignore metadata of JPEG/CR2 files
25/12/2022 19:18:26 - Option: Don't compare the content of hard linked files
25/12/2022 19:18:26 - Option: Use database
25/12/2022 19:18:26 - 1.Source folder: REDACTED
25/12/2022 19:18:26 - Option: Compare files from all source folders
25/12/2022 19:18:26 - Option: Archive Files: 7z, cb7, cbr, cbt, cbz, ePub, gz, iso, lha, lzh, nrg, rar, tar, zip
25/12/2022 19:18:26 - Folder filter activated: 7
25/12/2022 19:18:26 - Filter type: Exclusive
25/12/2022 19:18:26 - 1.folder filter: c:\windows
25/12/2022 19:18:26 - 2.folder filter: c:\program files (x86)
25/12/2022 19:18:26 - 3.folder filter: c:\program files
25/12/2022 19:18:26 - 4.folder filter: ?:\system volume information
25/12/2022 19:18:26 - 5.folder filter: ?:\recycled
25/12/2022 19:18:26 - 6.folder filter: ?:\recycler
25/12/2022 19:18:26 - 7.folder filter: ?:\$recycle.bin
25/12/2022 19:18:26 - Determine file count of all source folders...
25/12/2022 19:18:26 - File count: 1,263
25/12/2022 19:18:26 - Scan: REDACTED
25/12/2022 19:23:33 - Files filtered: 12
25/12/2022 19:23:33 - Found 862 duplicates with a total of 9.58 GB inside folder 'REDACTED'
25/12/2022 19:23:33 - Scanned files: 2,513
25/12/2022 19:23:33 - Groups: 126
25/12/2022 19:23:33 - Scanned archives: 1,250
25/12/2022 19:23:33 - Files from archives: 1,250
25/12/2022 19:23:33 - Extracted files: 871
25/12/2022 19:23:33 - File comparison count: 10,556
25/12/2022 19:23:33 - Checksums created: 1,732
25/12/2022 19:23:33 - Database checksums stored: 1,732
25/12/2022 19:23:33 - Duplicates: 862 (34%) (9.58 GB)
25/12/2022 19:23:33 - Elapsed time: 00:05:07

Now that I think about it, is it because the size of the non-extracted files are different from every single one of the files? That's the only reason I can come up with, which would make sense, if it weren't because there says 1732 checksums created and there are only 1250 files, and even if it's referring to the archives plus the extracted files it should be 2500 or 2121, though I expected that number to be 1250 or even 871 because why would it calculated the checksums of the 7z files when I'm telling the program to compare their contents not the actual files. Please someone explain.