All of the *.mil files and all of the *.dat files are just preset files with the incorrect extension. Many of them are duplicates of files with the correct extension. They can safely be renamed with the *.milk extension.
I ran all of these thru a checksum and found that, after removing all pure duplicates, the collection is about 44k presets. I have attached a zipped text file that shows all of the duplicate files for a given checksum.
Also there are lots of cases where two files have very slight differences, but appear to be functionally and perceptibly the same preset. I came across many cases of files with names such as...
Author-Name.milk
Author - Name.milk
Author - Name_1.milk
Author1, Author2 - Name.milk
Author1 + Author2 - Name.milk
Author1 & Author2 - Name.milk
I did some file compares of a few examples of these cases when the checksums did not match, and found that there was often one attribute with a different value or a comment on one file that was not in the other, while everything else was the same.
It would be nice to clean these up further and come up with a consistent naming format, but that's a lot of work... and likely futile as most folks who collect there would still download the collections with the differing formats...
Hope this helps a little!
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