Re: Adding "Find Duplicates" feature to F-Spot

[Benjamin Kahn <xkahn ximian com>]

Hi Alvaro,
	This seems like a somewhat strange use case.  I believe there are two
times when I want to find duplicates:

     1. When importing a bunch of new pictures, I want to locate the
        duplicates and not import them.  (Duplicates in this case are
        usually photos that I have ALREADY imported, not duplicates in
        the collection I'm importing.  But it is possible that the
        collection I'm importing as duplicates as well.)
     2. Finding and immediately acting on duplicates in the photo
        collection already imported.  I usually only want to do this
        because I forgot to weed out duplicates when importing.  (Maybe
        the feature wasn't implemented yet?  Maybe I wanted the new
        photos I'd imported, but not the old ones?  Who knows.)  Here, I
        want to search for duplicates and right away be looking at all
        of them so I can delete them.

I'm not sure why I'd ever want them to be tagged with a special tag.  I
guess that might be something I might do AFTER doing the duplicate
search and seeing only the duplicates.

On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 00:28 +0200, Alvaro del Castillo wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> In order to make easy to talk about the proposal I have created a
> screenshot proposal so you can see how it will work.
> 
> http://acs.barrapunto.org/en/?page_id=57
> 
> Cheers
> 
> El vie, 17-06-2005 a las 20:21 +0200, Alvaro del Castillo escribió:
> > Hi guys!
> > 
> > This is the first time I write to the list so I try to be as polite as
> > possible in the first steps ;-) (later also, of course).
> > 
> > I have a big album with about 8.000 photos and I plan to export all of
> > them using F-Spot to my gallery [1] website. F-Spot has imported all the
> > photos without problems but I have found in the import process some
> > problems:
> > 
> > 1. I have lots of duplicates in my album and I will need to clean them.
> > 
> > 2. The export feature from F-Spot to gallery doesn't seems to be rock
> > solid:
> > 
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169562#c2
> > 
> > So it is time to try to help. I have seen that the TODO list is very
> > large, so F-Spot needs a lot of work, but working in 1. and 2. could be
> > the best way to see if I find enought time and motivation to work in
> > this great application.
> > 
> > So I am working right now in "1. Finding Duplicates".
> > 
> > The process could be very simple:
> > 
> > - In the Find menu add a new entry "Find Duplicates".
> > 
> > - When the new menu entry is selected I travel trought all the selected
> > images, or all the images is there isn't a selection, and doing a MD5sum
> > of the files contents, it is easy to see if two images are the same.
> > 
> > - I plan to present the user all the duplicate images with the original.
> > All the duplicates will be selected so it is very easy for the user to
> > remove them if she wants.
> > 
> > Trying to show the group of duplicates images only I have seen that it
> > is easy to show images that are tagged, or it is easy to use a time
> > range to show some specific images, but it is not as easy in the first
> > travel trought to the code to show a specific list of images.
> > 
> > Thinking about the best way to do it maybe creating a new tag
> > "Duplicate" could be a great and direct way to implent the feature. The
> > user that wants to find the duplicates images just select the
> > "Duplicate" tag. I will use also the "Find" menu entry because it is
> > very natural for the user to go there to find the duplicates.
> > 
> > I plan to find sometime this weekend to finish the implementation so any
> > ideas about the implementation proposal will be very welcomed.
> > 
> > Thanks guys for the great product you have created!
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > -- Alvaro
> > 
> > [1] http://acs.barrapunto.org/gallery/ (sorry, it is in spanish
> > language)
> > 
> > 
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