Hello, Shotwell actually attempts to do duplicate detection rather than look for duplicate filenames. I believe there was some problems with this in 0.5.0. I highly recommend upgrading to the latest version (0.6.1) which is available on our web site and via our PPA. Check the Shotwell home page for more information:
http://www.yorba.org/shotwell -- Jim On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Hank Barta <[email protected]> wrote: > When I import photos from an SD card, I find that if I select the same > photo on subsequent batches. Shotwell merrily imports it again, > renaming e.g. <filename>.jpg as <filename>_1.jpg, <filename>_2.jpg and > so on. I would prefer that it just skip importing files with matching > names on the destination. I looked for a configuration setting to > modify this behavior but did not find it. There is a checkbox to 'Hide > photos already imported" but it only seems to work for photos imported > during that session, not those imported during any previous execution. > > If there is presently a way to do this that I have overlooked, please > clue me in! > > At present I'm using 0.5.0 on Ubuntu 10.04 > > many thanks, > hank > > -- > '03 BMW F650CS - hers > '98 Dakar K12RS - "BABY K" grew up. > '93 R100R w/ Velorex 700 (MBD starts...) > '95 Miata - "OUR LC" > polish visor: apply squashed bugs, rinse, repeat > Beautiful Sunny Winfield, Illinois > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
