Hi Willem, On Samstag, 9. Juni 2018 19:24:04 CEST Willem Ferguson wrote: > I would support any move to simplify a complex process such as hashing > and looking for files across the while directory tree. My problem is > that I have many files with the same name. They are in different dives, > but the actual images reside in a directory structure in off-line > storage. For instance, with fish photos I often have the English and > scientific names as the file name. For this reason I have many files > entitled "Redfang triggerfish Odonus niger.jpg". I am concerned that > this would cause confusion in a filename-based system.
For exactly this reason the upper directories are also checked besides the filename. Of course, we could optimize things by checking meta-data, file- modification date, etc. But I doubt that this is worth it, as it would just reintroduce the old complexity. It seems to me that your data would be the perfect test-case for the feature. But perhaps wait until I changed the implementation to only match against the pictures of the currently opened log. The more I think about it, the more I believe that this is the right thing to do. If moving dive logs with images between computers is a common use case for you, I wonder if a export/import-images feature might be the right thing for you. This would produce/read an archive containing all the image data of the current divelog. The advantage over the current scheme is that it would be less intrusive. Berthold _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
