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Scenario: amalgamation of several dissimilar albums
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<div class="">Detail: User has taken multiple backups over decades. The photos are safe, but some methods added to metadata or auto-changed photos, specifically the Created Date. Now there are hundreds of thousands of safe, but questionable duplicates. Which
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<div class="">Problem: Find Duplicates almost works, but if a later photo has metadata added at a later date which generates a slightly larger file, this photo may be selected as reference - which now uses the inaccurate created date.</div>
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<div class="">Solution(?): Add option to select reference by created date only. Or "Originals Only". You may get a slightly smaller file, but at least you know it is likely the original.</div>
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<div class="">Discussion: I am a newby c++ developer. If the maintainer of the "find duplicates" code is willing - and if there aren't already reasons to not search this way - I'm willing to attempt the work.</div>
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<div>James White</div>
<div><a href="mailto:james@whitehousenorth.com" class="">james@whitehousenorth.com</a></div>
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