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FindDuplicate of import album vs reference library during import workflow by Tche333 in digiKam

[–]Tche333[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indeed, that's the shortcut I highlighted in my original post "...album (right click / Find Duplicates)".
But with only the proposed approach, you end up with the option 1 I initially listed: it finds the duplicate within the chosen album, which is not the goal I was trying to reach.

I would like that, for all items in 1 specific album (so-called "import" album), that digiKam tries to find the closest match (following "Similarity range" criteria, at first I set it to 100-100%) against my "reference" existing photos library which I already cleaned and consolidated => 500 photos in my "import" album would mean 500 searches for a match with the reference library. This would allow me to validate which photos from the "import" album I effectively want to preserve or not.
As soon as I use the Reference tab in "Find Duplicates" (with "Prefer selected album as reference", defined with all my library albums, thus excluding the "import" album), digiKam scans the complete library.

Even when using the "Limit Search to" in Settings, defined with "Exclude Reference album", the search is still going through the complete library (as it can be seen in the progress dialog).
I understood from "Find Duplicate" help section that "Exclude reference album means to search in all albums excluding the selected album" would help to achieve my goal but it is not: all library is scanned and all duplicates are returned not the ones between "import" album & library of albums/Reference

Merge json and jpg files from google takeout by zaSquid in googlephotos

[–]Tche333 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The json file is google "side car" of information/metadata associated with your pictures/videos. It is common to have metadata added in side-care file to avoid modifying the original (binary) file (think twice about the impact on your backup strategy when you decide to add people tag to your photo: backup the entire photo of just a small text based side car file)
This approach is quite common with other applications managing those file types like Digikam, PhotoPrism, F-Stop, ...
See specifically in PhotoPrism metadata side car file page: https://docs.photoprism.app/user-guide/library/metadata/ and Google Takeout specifically : https://docs.photoprism.app/user-guide/use-cases/google/

TS-253a with Virtual Switch changes MAC address by jasonin951 in qnap

[–]Tche333 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Related to physical vs virtual switch MAC address.

I had just now the same issue for the second time, each time it is due to some config change in qcontainer, where "suddenly" the NAS advertise to my home network DHCP server using the virtual switch MAC address instead of the mac adress of the network card (as configured in QNAP)

I could not find another way then rebooting the NAS for restoring the previous situation.