Face tags duplicates

[Andrey Goreev]

Your comment makes sense. I guess I won't be touching anything.
The only thing that catches my eye is that I just noticed that face regions
are in a completely wrong places in some pictures.
Do you think some software stores pixels coordinates different way?

Best regards,
Andrey Goreev

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:03 AM, Remco Viëtor <remco.vietor at wanadoo.fr>
wrote:

> On mardi 17 janvier 2017 10:40:16 CET Andrey Goreev wrote:
> > I see. I guess I will write a script or an exiftool command to find files
> > with such duplicates and assign a tag to them and then I will go through
> > all of them and manually delete the duplicated regions.
> >
> That is of course possible, but from what Gilles wrote, for Digikam those
> tags
> exist only _once_, but are just stored in several ways to accomodate other
> programs that only look at one particular type of metadata or tag.
> Removing versions of those tags can mean that other programs you use won't
> see
> that tag anymore. And all you win is a few 10s of bytes on the file length.
>
> And why do you care so much about what exactly is stored in the metadata as
> long as everything works as expected? A basic engineering principle is "if
> it
> isn't broken, don't fix it".
>
> But, if you want to go that way, exiftool allows you to remove unwanted
> tags,
> so once your script identifies a file with duplicate tags, it can also
> remove
> them. But any such operation is completely at your own risk.
>
> Remco
>
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