On 2010-10-13, Michael Hendry wrote: > > Preventing duplicates is one of the beauties of shotwell for me. I often > > run an import from a camera sd card twice without deleting the pictures > > inbetween, I often import from a network share where my wife has put new > > photos in various locations, etc. I were lost if not for the duplicate > > detection :-).
> So the rest of us have to suffer because of your carelessness? <G> It's not carelessness, it's my workflow. I reimport the same directory over and over again, with at least 2 persons adding pictures to various locations. > At the very least, there should be a warning of the duplicates, and an > option to go ahead anyway, with a configuration option to ban all > duplicates. Yep, it seems that would satisfy everyone. > > I disagree, in my usecase once I've thrown a picture in the wastebasket, > > I don't want it to be reimported. ooh, "zombie photos" otherwise :). > You agreed (above) that restoring information from the Wastebasket is > the wrong thing to do when an attempt to import apparently identical > images is made. Are you suggesting that once you've emptied the > Wastebasket Shotwell should "remember" that you've got rid of an image > and never want it imported again? Yes, that is what I think. Once discarded, it should not be reimported (without a warning). Agreed, or a warning about duplicates and a set of "Yes...Yes to > all...No...No to all" import options would sort that. /me nods. > > If they have different resolution, they are (for shotwell) different > > images as the files differ, so that should already be possible. > > Doesn't work for me - I think it's because the thumbnails are identical, > and the test for "identicality" doesn't take file-size or EXIF data into > consideration. Uhh, last I looked at the database, it was taking the md5 of the photo file for duplicate identification. So if the EXIF data is different (or the file size), it should be possible to import duplicates. I defer to those more knowledgeable of the code base though. Sebastian _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
