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2 <chapter id="GuideImageSearch">
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3 <title id="titleGuideImageSearch">Search and Select</title>
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4 <para>Geeqie provides comprehensive set of search methods, including not only the standard functions such as file date or size, but also image similarity.</para>
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5 <para>There is a duplicate file finder, which uses search parameters such as image dimensions or checksum. Two sets of image files may be compared.</para>
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6 <para>Geeqie also has a set of temporary "marks" or "tags" which may be allocated to any image as an aide to file organising.</para>
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7 <section id="GuideImageSearchCache">
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8 <title id="titleGuideImageSearchCache">Caching Data For Searches</title>
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10 Searching large numbers of files for similarity can take significant cpu time. Part of this is the time to compute the similarity matrix for each file.
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13 <link linkend="PreferencesThumbnails">Cache Thumbnails</link>
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14 option is selected in Preferences/General, the similarity matrix and the checksum will also be cached. This will reduce the time needed for future searches.
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15 <note>If you frequently search on similarity and your images are in a tree arrangement under a single point, initiating a one-time search on similarity from the top of the tree will generate the similarity data for all images.</note>
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16 <para>Similarity data are stored in a folder hierachy that mirrors the location of the source images. The data have the same name as the original appended by the file extension .sim.</para>
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18 The root of the hierachy is:
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20 <programlisting>$XDG_CACHE_HOME/geeqie/thumbnails/</programlisting>
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21 or, if $XDG_CACHE_HOME is not defined:
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22 <programlisting>$HOME/.cache/geeqie/thumbnails/</programlisting>
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29 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="GuideImageSearchFindingDuplicates.xml" />
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30 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="GuideImageMarks.xml" />
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