Option to turn off duplicate detection
Submitted by an unknown user
Link to original bug (#718557)
Description
---- Reported by shotwell-maint@gnome.bugs 2012-06-10 13:09:00 -0700 ----
Original Redmine bug id: 5385
Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/5385
Searchable id: yorba-bug-5385
Original author: Honore Doktorr
Original description:
When importing pictures and (especially) videos from an ipod touch camera, I regularly get false positives on duplicates. To be fair, the videos are often quite similar to each other in terms of composition... still, to use shotwell as a photo importer and get all the media off my camera, I’m currently
• Move everything out of my shotwell folder,
• Deleting my ~/.shotwell directory,
• Reimporting all the photos/videos I just imported.
This is cumbersome and wastes time. Please consider adding an option to totally turn off duplicate detection. This may be undesirable for people who use shotwell as a photo manager, but in my use case — shotwell as a photo importer only — duplicate detection is getting in the way.
Related issues:
- related to shotwell - Feature #3126 (closed): Log duplicates when importing (Fixed) duplicates shotwell - Feature #3487 (closed): More sophisticated, configurable handling of duplicates (Open)
---- Additional Comments From shotwell-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-05-01 11:46:00 -0700 ----
History
Comment 1
Updated by Adam Dingle over 1 year ago
Thanks for the feature suggestion. (The "Target version" field represents the version in which we plan to fix a bug or implement a feature, not the version in which a bug was observed. Usually when filing a feature request you should just leave "Target version" blank and we'll fill it in as appropriate.)
It sounds like the real problem here is that Shotwell is incorrectly considering some photos to be duplicates. Even if two photos are similar in composition, Shotwell should never consider them duplicates unless the photos are one and the same. Could you attach two photos which Shotwell falsely judges to be duplicates?
Comment 2
Updated by Adam Dingle over 1 year ago
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Target version deleted (
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Comment 3
Updated by Honore Doktorr over 1 year ago
Thanks Adam, understood.
The offender this time is a 34M video that wouldn’t import ’til I burnt down my ~/.shotwell directory. Looking at its in-file datestamp now (June 5th) and the date of my last bulk import folder (also June 5th), my best guess it that it conflicted with itself — it was pulled in during the June 5th import but not removed from the camera or filed properly by me — and so the duplicate detection code was working properly.
...well, properly except for the fact that I didn’t want it to be giving this level of scrutiny to /what/ I asked it to import, just to pull the vid in!
Comment 4
Updated by Jim Nelson 11 months ago
- Target version set to 0.14.0
Comment 5
Updated by Jim Nelson 11 months ago
- Category set to import
Comment 6
Updated by Jim Nelson 10 months ago
- Status changed from Open to 5
- Resolution set to duplicate
Some of the problem here could be solved with #3126 (closed). I also think this ticket (turn off duplicate detection) is a subset of #3487 (closed), which implies turning off duplicate detection as well as other options, so closing this as a duplicate.
Comment 7
Updated by Charles Lindsay 7 months ago
- Status changed from 5 to Duplicate
--- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-25 21:57 UTC ---
This bug was previously known as bug 5385 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5385
Unknown milestone "unknown in product shotwell. Setting to default milestone for this product, "---". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.
Version: 0.14.0
Resolution: RESOLVED DUPLICATE