Is there a way to delete duplicates?

figbug · June 6, 2007

Is there a way to delete duplicate images from an album? Is there a way to upload all the images from all folder except the ones that already exist in the album?

jfriend · June 6, 2007

figbug wrote:

Is there a way to delete duplicate images from an album? Is there a way to upload all the images from all folder except the ones that already exist in the album?

I don't know of any way to automatically delete duplicates. The best work-around I can think of is to go to the customize gallery screen, make sure the display of filenames is enabled and then set the gallery to sort by filename. This will group each of your duplicates together, you should be able to easily see them and you can manually delete one of the duplicates in each case.

I don't know of any way to upload only the files that aren't already in the gallery without manually recording which files are already in the gallery and then manually picking the others from your directory on your PC. Another option if you have a copy of your computer of everything you want in the new gallery, then just upload all of the images to a new gallery (do it overnight if you want) and then delete the original gallery.

rickbrad · June 6, 2007

I suppose that this question comes from your experience of uploads failing before completing. Don't upload the entire list again if an upload fails in the middle of execution.

I have experienced the same problem, and would just suggest that you sort the gallery by date (date and time modified, not date and time taken - because that is what the date that corresponds to file date on a PC), then sort the folder on your pc by date; next, find the last file uploaded in the gallery and select only the files below the corresponding file in the PC folder and upload only those.

This of course won't help you if you like to upload from several folders into one gallery...

rainforest1155 · June 6, 2007

figbug wrote:

Is there a way to delete duplicate images from an album? Is there a way to upload all the images from all folder except the ones that already exist in the album?

Also check your upload log in the controlpanel to see if there are still images in the pipe being processed.

Sebastian

Nikolai · June 6, 2007

figbug wrote:

Is there a way to delete duplicate images from an album? Is there a way to upload all the images from all folder except the ones that already exist in the album?

1) I'm not aware of an existing way to automatically deleting duplcates - although I think this is something I cna easily come up with soon enough.

(thanks for the idea

:-)

2) yes, Star*Explorer can check if the online version already exists and avoid uploading it next time (great for "picture of the day" or other stuff).

HTH

figbug · June 6, 2007

Thanks for the info. I shot an event, and then on my pc, I sorted the images from the event into seperate folders. Now, I want to upload the photos, but into one gallery. So, in windows explorer I went to the folder and searched for *.jpg and then dragged them to the drag drop uploader. However, it timed out, and it doesn't give an option to restart. Since they were in seperate folders, it didn't upload them in order. So I restarted the upload and now I have a bunch of duplicates.

Nikolai · June 6, 2007

figbug wrote:

Thanks for the info. I shot an event, and then on my pc, I sorted the images from the event into seperate folders. Now, I want to upload the photos, but into one gallery. So, in windows explorer I went to the folder and searched for *.jpg and then dragged them to the drag drop uploader. However, it timed out, and it doesn't give an option to restart. Since they were in seperate folders, it didn't upload them in order. So I restarted the upload and now I have a bunch of duplicates.

You won't have any of those problems with S*E, that's for sure. While the uploads can be interrupted for whatever reason, S*E will keep a persistent reacord what's been uploaded and what not, so you can simply restart the upload and go on. And with the Online Duplicates Verification feature it will stop you from uploading more than one copy into the same gallery.
Try it, you may like it

figbug · June 6, 2007

My upload log looks like this. It looks like it's stuck on the last one.

DSC_3566.JPG

160177045

Processing

2007-06-06 10:47:32

123s

n/a

DSC_3565.JPG

160176813

Complete

2007-06-06 10:46:28

146s

40s

DSC_3564.JPG

160176655

Complete

2007-06-06 10:45:18

196s

23s

figbug · June 6, 2007

I downloaded S*E, I'm giving it a try now.

Nikolai · June 6, 2007

figbug wrote:

I downloaded S*E, I'm giving it a try now.

Cool!

If you have any questions/concerns, please don't hesitate to let me know ( s u p p o r t a t s t a r e x p l o r e r d o t c o m )

rainforest1155 · June 6, 2007

figbug wrote:

My upload log looks like this. It looks like it's stuck on the last one.

But it already has got a thumbnail, which means you can already see the photo in your gallery. The processing is eventually going away.

Sebastian

Is there a way to delete duplicates?

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