Re: [darktable-user] Finding photos stored more then once

2020-02-17 Thread Tobias Krause
Hi, Thanks for all replies while I was away from keyboard for the weekend. I have been playing with duplicate tools and digikam before but did not really find a good workflow. As darktables database offers all information I need to find (almost all) duplicate images in my setting I did not want

Re: [darktable-user] Finding photos stored more then once

2020-02-16 Thread David Vincent-Jones
If it were me, I would copy all of the individual files into a common folder where they can be date sorted and duplicates are then removed. Then break the single folder into logical subfolders. On 16.02.20 10:32, KOVÁCS István wrote: Hi, Assuming you use Linux: you can install fslint or dupeg

Re: [darktable-user] Finding photos stored more then once

2020-02-16 Thread KOVÁCS István
Hi, Assuming you use Linux: you can install fslint or dupeguru. E.g. https://connectwww.com/2-best-ways-to-find-and-remove-duplicate-files-on-ubuntu/5286/ For photos (images), digikam has a tool that can even compare by content(!). https://userbase.kde.org/Digikam/Duplicates (Sorry, I'm not good

Re: [darktable-user] Finding photos stored more then once

2020-02-15 Thread ternaryd
On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 21:36:09 +0100 Tobias Krause wrote: > Unfortunately quite some of the the photos > are stored more than once and there is no > "main" folder containing all images. You could use the darktable database to find those duplicate filenames in sqlitebrowser; if you know a bit of sq

Re: [darktable-user] Finding photos stored more then once

2020-02-15 Thread darktable
On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 21:36:09 +0100 Tobias Krause wrote: > I just started using darktbale - in the first step mainly as DAM > tool trying to clean the mess of photos that have been spread over > different devices, folder, ... You haven't mentioned your OS and your storage: local, NAS,... Linux a

Re: [darktable-user] Finding photos stored more then once

2020-02-15 Thread Sherwood Botsford
Not a DT expert. MANY photo apps will have duplicate names. There is usually good reason for this: * Thumbnails are created, sometimes in multiple sizes. * If there is some kind of album feature, these can be implemented as folders of links (aliases) to the actual image. * Some apps can/will dupl

[darktable-user] Finding photos stored more then once

2020-02-15 Thread Tobias Krause
Hi, I just started using darktbale - in the first step mainly as DAM tool trying to clean the mess of photos that have been spread over different devices, folder, ... First things first: darktable is amazing and after just using it fore some days I wonder how I could ever use something else. Tha