It's marked high and I would like to get it in for 0.8.  If you cc: yourself
on the ticket, you'll be notified when it's in trunk.

-- Jim

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:11 PM, naren <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> 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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