[Shotwell] Preventing the "_1.jpg" duplicates

[Adam Dingle]

On 11/14/2011 11:34 AM, Michael wrote:
> Hi, everyone,
>
> I have a few missing photos, so I thought I'd reimport from the memory
> card, expecting the process to skip over the duplicates and just import
> the missing files, but all the existing images were imported (and
> copied!) again, but with "_1.jpg" added to the end. How can I prevent
> this from happening? I didn't see anything in the settings.

That's odd: it seems that duplicate detection has failed for some 
reason.  Could you try this?

1. Make sure that auto-import (the option "Watch library directory for 
new files") is off.
2. Start Shotwell with an empty, scratch library: "shotwell -d foo"'
3. Import a single image from your memory card.
4. Import the image again.

Does Shotwell detect the duplicate?  Or does it reimport with "_1.jpg" 
at the end?

If Shotwell detects the duplicate when you follow the steps above, then 
there must be some difference between those steps and the reimport 
situation you described.  Maybe you can come up with a reproducible 
sequence of steps like the above that triggers this problem, starting 
with an empty Shotwell library - if you can do so then we can 
investigate.  Cheers -

adam