[Enhancement] Consider removal of downloaded files in database about moodle-dl HOT 7 CLOSED

It's designed the other way because we decided a long time ago in the old version of the Moodle Downloader that most people don't like the folder structure of Moodle. So we wanted to be able to move and rearrange the files ourselves and delete unnecessary files without having to download them again.

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Additionally even files that have been deleted online are still tracked. This has no effect on the download behavior. This is only done to get a log of the files.

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I can imagine to extend it to give you a list of files that are no longer available offline, but still online. And selected files, then get deleted from the database so that they can be downloaded again.

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By the way, for manual editing of the database I would recommend the https://sqlitebrowser.org/.

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Or do you have a better idea? I never actually had this case, so I don't have a very good idea. I can come up with the most blatant versioning system, but that would be off the mark. (By the way, that's exactly what you could do, you could put your download folder under versioning e.g. git). But maybe you have a good idea that would help you.

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Sounds like an option to download files missing on disk.

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Check out the new Option --manage-database. It is just a basic manager, but it is ok for simple tasks.

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