Luxury problem...

[Bronne]

Ive been thinking, there are alot of posts that have "renamed" photos wich are not unique/picture... this is soooooo enoying i think, when saving such a photo i never know if i already have it or not because its not unique...

Why oh why do some poster keep renaming their photos like : ex1 ex2 etc etc, WHY not keep their original filename?? I dont get that!

[Slick]

Originally Posted by Bronne

Ive been thinking, there are alot of posts that have "renamed" photos wich are not unique/picture... this is soooooo enoying i think, when saving such a photo i never know if i already have it or not because its not unique...

Why oh why do some poster keep renaming their photos like : ex1 ex2 etc etc, WHY not keep their original filename?? I dont get that!

I don't think the purpose of renaming is to make it inconvenient for someone else, I think it's more for "categorizing" purposes, maybe they just changed the name when they originally saved it. It could also be they're starting a new thread and had to rename the files so they would fall into sequence while posting them, instead of the first photo in the set mistakenly getting posted last etc.

Just have to spend some extra time looking through a folder making sure you don't have the picture already, can't really do much about people renaming files.

Slick

[Klondike]

Originally Posted by Bronne

Ive been thinking, there are alot of posts that have "renamed" photos wich are not unique/picture... this is soooooo enoying i think, when saving such a photo i never know if i already have it or not because its not unique...

Why oh why do some poster keep renaming their photos like : ex1 ex2 etc etc, WHY not keep their original filename?? I dont get that!

OVer time, most pics (if they are popular) lose their original identity, or filename. Its too bad since having it can make it possible to track down the source and maybe find more pics. But there are lots of good reasons to change a filename too, and I do it frequently.

My dup checker compares the image itself, not just the name. I do not expect that even a small fraction of the dups it finds will have the same filename. And people upload pics all the time to OCC that have been posted already under a different filename. They likely are posting it as they found it, not renaming it.

KLondike

[Bronne]

How does your "dup checker" work?

[dognheat]

I am "guilty" of renaming photos, but it makes it easier for me to post them. Here's some additional helpful information about cross checking for duplicates.

https://forum.oneclickchicks.com/showthread.php?t=81004

[Klondike]

Originally Posted by Bronne

How does your "dup checker" work?

I'm a Mac user, so it may not be very helpful to you. But I use PixCompare. try googling it....

KLondike