On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Murray Strome <[email protected]> wrote:
> When I first open Shotwell and pick the photos to import, when it is > > finished, it gives a report saying something like "XXX duplicate images not > > imported and YYY not imported" .. because something was wrong with them. It > > then lists several images and ends with "... and ZZZZZ others). > > > > I don't really want duplicated images, but all too often, it loads the > > poorest quality ones. For example, if there are some full resolution TIFF > > images, and the same ones as full resolution JPEG, and another set of low > > resolution JPEG for E-Mail, and Thumbnails for them, it will often load the > > lowest resolution version. Is there a way to set it so that if there are > > duplicate images like this, it will pick the highest resolution ones? > > > > I am using Shotwell version 0.9.3 with XUbuntu 11.04. > Hi Murray, Are you sure both photos aren't being imported? How is this problem manifesting itself within Shotwell? The way duplicate checking works in Shotwell is it performs a byte-for-byte check on the file. It's not based on filenames or image data or anything like that. - Eric _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
