Bug 388981

Summary: Ability to set "Reference Album" for Find Duplicates
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: firndeloth
Component: Searches-SimilarityAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: arialdo.martini, firndeloth, freisim93, mario.frank, martin.marmsoler, stievenard.david
Priority: NOR    
Version: 6.2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: All   
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Description firndeloth 2018-01-15 00:41:01 UTC
Currently the only thing I can get Find Duplicates to do is compare all images to all other images within a directory (or set of multiple selected directories), or to compare a single image to a set of albums/directories.

Based on the Restriction options to Include/Exclude the "Reference Album[s]" I at first thought there was a way to select a reference set and find all duplicates of that reference set within a target set.

Specifically, I imported a folder of images and wanted to see if any of them were duplicates after importing as I had not yet set up the fingerprints. I didn't want to search every image in my collection against every other, just every image I had just import against the rest of the collection--still a long task but much shorter! 

After a lot of troubleshooting there didn't seem to be a way to do this. If there was a way to do it, there was at the very least no clear way to tell what the "Reference Album" was currently set to other than the (usually empty) window of "Reference Images" containing already suspected duplicates. This is, for me at least, a really important feature for making Find Duplicates and other Similarity Searches more useable--searching either one image at a time or checking an entire set against itself are both very wasteful tasks compared to what I find myself actually wanting to do with the feature!
Comment 1 Mario Frank 2018-01-15 11:45:21 UTC
Hey,
this is indeed currently not supported. And I agree with you that this is a nice feature. I have now more free time - So I can do some digiKam development again.

I will try to implement the feature for 5.9. There already are some topics in the similarity subsystem that need to be covered.
Comment 2 Arialdo Martini 2021-10-23 10:02:41 UTC
Is there any updates on this?
I'm not sure what's the logic digiKam uses to decide which image / album should be considered the reference one, but it seems there is no way to control that.

Maybe this can be done via "Restrict to Only Selected Tab / One of / Both / Album but not Tags / Tags but not Albums"? Unfortunately it seems there is no details documentation about that drop down list, so I would honestly not know how this have an effect on the selection of reference images.
Comment 3 Maik Qualmann 2022-09-15 19:11:45 UTC
*** Bug 459178 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***