[Digikam-users] Feature request: check for duplicates before import

[Florian Hennig]

On 17.01.2015 15:28, jdd wrote:
> Le 17/01/2015 15:13, Florian Hennig a écrit :
>> Hey guys!
>>
>> I have a lot of pictures on different devices and I'm trying to sort and
>> manage them with digikam. Some of them are restored from a crashed
>> harddisk and thats why rhere are a lot duplicates of some pictures
>> spread on the several devices.
>> So I want to ask if it would be possible to add a feature in digikam
>> which checks if the images are duplicates directly in the importmodule
>> and makes it able to select non duplicates only.
>>
>> I know somewhat C++ and Qt and I would be glad if I could help
>> implementing such a feature but I think I need some advices to get into
>> the digikam source.
>
> why do you need digikam to do so? digikam albums a simply kde folders,
> any sync tool can do the job (even Dolphin)
>
> jdd
>
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With a normal sync tool the files are compared by a md5sum or something 
like that. If I tagged and rated my pictures they are not equal by 
bytes, but the images still can be the same. Thats why I really like the 
"Find duplicates" function of digikam.

Is there a plugin for dolphin to check for duplicates by something 
different than a checksum?