Re: duplicate detection - not working?

[Stephen Shaw <sshaw decriptor com>]

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Jack <ostroffjh sbcglobal net> wrote:
> Good afternoon,
>
> Rather than go through a long story of why, I'll just ask if there is a
> quick explanation of how f-spot does its duplicate detection on import.  I
> just imported a bunch of pics, some of which had been renamed with no other
> changes, and they were not detected as duplicates, as I had expected.  I
> spot checked a few, and the files were identical except for name.
>
> Thanks for any explanations.
>
> Jack

I believe the duplicate checking is based on the md5sum and not the
image itself.  Part of that includes the filename as well.  I'm not
100% sure about that as I'm not very familiar with how that works.

Ideally, it would be nice if it was done just on the image.

Cheers,
Stephen

PS.  I could potentially be making all of this up.  I'd have to look
at the actual code to be sure.