Is there a patch available for this or is it in a dev branch? (Full file MD5
only). 'Cause without this fix, I don't feel like I am complete with
Shotwell. I tried F-Spot, but that's... well different ;)



On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Jim Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:

> To flesh out this answer, Shotwell has two mechanisms for detecting
> duplicates: the MD5 checksum of the thumbnail and an MD5 checksum of the
> full file.
>
> The issue that's mentioned in the message Mattias linked to essentially
> means Shotwell will use only a full MD5 checksum to detect duplicates:
> http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2587
>
> Shotwell has never used a filename to detect duplicates.  My guess is your
> duplicate files either have duplicate thumbnails (possible) or really are
> byte-for-byte duplicates.  For that, there's another feature request you
> should be aware of: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2593
>
> -- Jim
>
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:49 AM, Mattias Põldaru <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Ühel kenal päeval, T, 2010-11-09 kell 12:40, kirjutas Richard Booth:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I have around 8,000 photos that I took years ago that I want to import
> > > to Shotwell. When I tried importing Shotwell said there were 1500
> > > duplicates. However I think this is because my old digital camera
> > > reset the file numbering after each batch, thus I have a number of
> > > DSCF0001.jpg etc.
> > >
> > > I'm thinking I could write a script to append a serial number to my
> > > 8,000 photos and then import to Shotwell. Will this work? Am I right
> > > in assuming Shotwell says it is a duplicate based on the filename
> > > alone?
> >
> > No, it compares MD5sums of EXIF thumbnails (maybe more). See this answer
> > from Jim:
> > http://lists.yorba.org/pipermail/shotwell/2010-November/001199.html
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > Mattias
> >
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