[Shotwell] Undo enhancement

[Adam Dingle]

Chris,

Jim is right: the enhance operation itself will never create a _1 file 
in Shotwell today.

As an additional possibility, your _1 files might have been created if 
you selected photos in Shotwell and chose Edit->Duplicate.

adam

On 12/13/2010 12:27 PM, Jim Nelson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Shotwell shouldn't be creating any _1 files if you simply Enhance the
> photo.  Shotwell will only generate an additional backing file if you choose
> Photos ->  Edit with External Editor, and then the appended string is
> "_modified".
>
> Is it possible these files were from an earlier program?  If you open the
> directory the photo is in in Nautilus and Enhance it, do you see the _1 file
> created?
>
> Finally, if you choose View ->  Titles, do you see any of the _1 files in
> Shotwell's library?
>
> -- Jim
>
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Chr. M.<chr.mntn at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Hi! First of all I would like to thank you for making such a great photo
>> manager. I have been looking for a good photo manager for quite some time
>> and settled for Shotwell for its speed and ease of use.
>>
>> I have for now one question: if I enhance a photo I found out a copy of the
>> original photo is made and saved with the original name + '_1'. Correct me
>> if I am wrong. Now I selected a batch of photos and enhanced them which
>> worked like a charm. Then I decided to undo the enhance on all photo's
>> because I was not satisfied. I ended up having duplicates of all photos
>> (with filename + '_1') which are exactly the same as the original since I
>> undid the enhancement. That takes a lot of space on my hard drive. Is there
>> an easy way to remove them? Can I just delete the duplicates (all _1
>> photos)
>> from my hard drive or will this corrupt the Shotwell database?
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Regards, Chris
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