[digiKam-users] Can't find duplicate images anymore

[Marc Palaus]

I honestly don't know, I haven't used the duplicate finder feature in a 
while, since my collection is in a remote storage and it can be quite 
slow. Sorry

El 3/3/23 a les 23:49, loup+digikamusers at lo-cal.org ha escrit:
>
> Can someone help me with my question below?  I've been trying to make 
> it work and I've made zero progress.
>
> I tried deleting the similarity database and letting digikam rebuild 
> it.  No change.
>
> I tried turning on logging and looking for a clue.  If "Restrict to" 
> is set to "Only Selected Tab", "One Of", or "Tags but not albums", 
> then clicking "Find duplicates" returns immediately and produces these 
> log lines:
>
> digikam.geoiface: ----
> digikam.general: Stacked View Mode :  0
> digikam.general: Using  12  CPU core to run threads
> digikam.general: Action Thread run  12  new jobs
> digikam.geoiface: ----
> digikam.general: Event is dispatched to KDE desktop notifier
> digikam.general: Cancel Main Thread
>
> If I select "Both" or "Albums but not tags", then the operation will 
> appear in the UI to run, but stays stuck at 0% for a long time (tens 
> of minutes) and produces these log lines:
>
> digikam.geoiface: ----
> digikam.general: Stacked View Mode :  0
> digikam.general: Using  12  CPU core to run threads
> digikam.general: Action Thread run  1  new jobs
> digikam.dbjob: No image ids passed for duplicates search
> digikam.geoiface: ----
>
> I tried running from an AppImage.  It runs the same.
>
> Can someone help me please? Should I be asking somewhere else?
> On 3/1/23 23:35, loup+digikamusers at lo-cal.org wrote:
>>
>> I can no longer find duplicates using digikam.
>>
>> I used to be able to find duplicates without a problem. But now, when 
>> using the same workflow as always, the duplicate list ALWAYS comes up 
>> empty.  I've even tried copying one of the images to create an exact 
>> duplicate and it can't even find that.
>>
>> I've tried using the latest Ubuntu package (which give v7.5.0). the 
>> latest snap package (v7.6.0) and the latest AppImage (v7.7.0).  All 
>> behave the same way.
>>
>> I'm not even sure how to troubleshoot this.
>>
>> My workflow is:
>>
>>   * tag all the images that I want to check with a unique tag.
>>   * Go to the duplicate panel and clear all the album and tag selections.
>>   * Select the unique tag from step 1.
>>   * Restrict to = "Only selected tab"
>>   * Similarity Range: 100% to 100% (I only want to find identical
>>     duplicates)
>>   * Restriction: None
>>   * The I hit "Update Fingerprints", wait for completion
>>   * Then "Find Duplicates"
>>
>> This comes up empty.
>>
>> If I set the similarity range to something wider, like 80% to 100%, 
>> then I get some hits of similar pictures, but none of the -identical- 
>> pics come up in the list.
>>
>> What is going on?
>>
>>
>>
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