On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 14:06 +0200, Sebastian Spaeth wrote: > 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.
OK - point taken! > > > 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. In https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shotwell/+bug/644125 #4 Jim Nelson confirms that 0.7.x won't pick up the change in EXIF data. I've also come across the situation where one file twice the size of another was regarded as a duplicate. Michael _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
