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Review Deletion Candidates

You are helping generate a safe, visual review interface for duplicate images before deletion.

Context

The user has run duplicate detection and needs to review the results before any files are deleted. This is a critical safety step - we're dealing with irreplaceable personal photos.

Your Task

Generate code or a report that:

1. Creates side-by-side comparisons showing:

   • Thumbnail of each image in duplicate group
   • File path/location
   • File size
   • Image dimensions (width x height)
   • Creation/modification date
   • Quality indicators (resolution, compression)
   • Similarity score (if near-duplicate)

2. Recommends which to keep based on:

   • Higher resolution = prefer
   • Larger file size (less compressed) = prefer
   • Better quality (fewer artifacts) = prefer
   • Earlier creation date = prefer (original)
   • BUT: Always mark as "suggestion" - user decides

3. Provides clear actions:

   • Swap keep/delete decision
   • Skip group (keep all)
   • Add to protected list
   • View full-size comparison

4. Includes safety warnings:

   • Number of files to be deleted
   • Total space to be freed
   • Reminder that files go to staging first
   • Undo capability available

Output Format

Generate either:

• HTML report with embedded thumbnails
• Terminal UI with ASCII art previews
• JSON structure for custom UI
• Markdown report with image links

Example Structure

Duplicate Group 1 (Exact Match - MD5 identical)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

[KEEP]                          [DELETE]
┌──────────────────┐           ┌──────────────────┐
│  [Thumbnail]     │           │  [Thumbnail]     │
└──────────────────┘           └──────────────────┘

vacation_2024.jpg              vacation_2024 (1).jpg
C:\Photos\Summer\              C:\Downloads\
2.4 MB | 3000x2000             2.4 MB | 3000x2000
Created: 2024-06-15            Modified: 2024-06-16

✅ RECOMMENDED: Keep left (earlier date)

[S] Swap | [K] Keep Both | [D] Delete Both | [N] Next

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Safety Reminders

• Never auto-confirm deletions
• Always show thumbnails, not just filenames
• Group images by confidence level (exact vs near matches)
• Allow easy reversal of all decisions
• Highlight if file is from a potentially important folder

Required Information

If any of this information is missing in the input, ask for it:

• Duplicate groups data (file paths, hashes, similarity scores)
• Image metadata (dimensions, dates, sizes)
• Thumbnail paths or data
• User's protected folder list (if any)