<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div style="font-family:Arial;">While I haven't ever looked for duplicates, I assumed that the find duplicates feature would scan the complete database looking for duplicate photos. In my mental model of "find duplicates" there is plenty to compare. However, I can see how useful it would be to limit searches to subsets of the database.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Jay Rutherford<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div>On Sun, Aug 13, 2023, at 10:44, Remco Viëtor wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div style="font-family:Arial;">On dimanche 13 août 2023 16:35:56 CEST Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> I downloaded Digicam 8 to deal with my vast number of duplicate pictures.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> I've rebuilt the thumbnails and fingerprints several times - when I<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> click on "Find Duplicates" it tells me it's taken 0.00.00 to find no<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> duplicates. So it's not scanning the picture library at all.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> This happens in both Tools-Find Duplicates and in the Duplicates-Find<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> Duplicates tab.<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">> Is this a Bug?<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">No idea, not enough information....<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Did you select one or more albums or tags to search for duplicates?<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">Initially, for me, that view has *no* albums or tags selected, so there is <br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;">nothing to compare...<br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:Arial;"><br></div></body></html>