Duplicate detection landed in F-Spot!
Finally, after some testing and bug reporting, image duplicate detection made its way into F-Spot SVN on sep 6th!
Thomas did a great work in the latest months updating the patch and fixing the smaller bugs raised in the tests.
This is surely a long time awaited feature, and a great improvement for users, which now are allowed to chose whether to import or not images detected as duplicate of existing ones.
The check is performed on image data only, so modified exif/XMP or file names won’t fool F-Spot!
Please hurry up and test the new feature (and eventually report bugs), a new release is planned soon!
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Comments
Comment from Donncha O Caoimh
Time: 14 May 2009, 15:20
Just spent ages importing tens of thousands of photos and unchecked “Detect Duplicates” (because a tiny tiny percentage of my photos might be dupes and I don’t care) and the import is literally flying along now in comparison to before.
Recently rediscovered F-spot after a long hiatus and very happy with it now!
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