Re: Duplicates problem

["Thomas Van Machelen" <thomas vanmachelen gmail com>]

Hi David,

2006/11/7, David Berg <drberg1000 gmail com>:
> I accidentally imported some images twice.  I selected the dupes for
> deletion then removed them from the catalog instead of the drive.  So I
> went to the terminal and removed all of the duplicate image files.
> Figuring I was done I went to tag and rotate and found that I had
> deleted the original from the catalog and the duplicate from the hard drive.

Ouch!

> Question is, what is the best way to get the Photos directory and the
> database back in sync?  Should I just deleting the images from the
> catalog then reimport them, or is there a better way?

If you still have the original photos in another place, you can just
re-import them after you cleared them from the catalog.

If you want to start completely anew, you can remove the photos.db
file in ~/gnome2/f-spot/ and re-import.

Regards,
Thomas

Regards,
Thomas