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  39             <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Finding Duplicates &ndash; Image Search</p>
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  52
  53   <h1>Finding Duplicates</h1>
  54
  55   <p>Geeqie provides a utility to find images that have similar attributes or content.</p>
  56
  57   <p>To display a new Find Duplicates Window press D or select Find duplicates from the File menu.</p>
  58
  59   <p><br />
  60   <br />
  61   </p>
  62
  63   <p><u>Adding files to be compared</u>
  64   </p>
  65
  66   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-5">Add files to be compared using drag and drop. Drop files or folders onto the Find Duplicates window to add them to the list of files to compare. When one or more folders are dropped onto the window a menu will appear allowing you to choose the desired action:</p>
  67
  68   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-6"><b>Add contents:</b> The contents of dropped folders will added to the window.<br />
  69   <b>Add contents recursive:</b> The contents of dropped folders and all sub folders will be added to the window.<br />
  70   <b>Skip folders:</b> Ignore folders contained in the drop list.</p>
  71
  72   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-5">When files are added to the window, the comparison is restarted to include the new files.</p>
  73
  74   <p><br />
  75   <br />
  76   </p>
  77
  78   <p><u>Comparison methods</u>
  79   </p>
  80
  81   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-5">The attribute to use for two images to match can be selected with the &#8220;Compare by:&#8221; drop down menu. Each method is explained below:</p>
  82
  83   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-5"><b>Name:</b> The file name.</p>
  84
  85   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-5"><b>Size:</b> The file size.</p>
  86
  87   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-5"><b>Date:</b> The file date.</p>
  88
  89   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-5"><b>Dimensions:</b> The image dimensions.</p>
  90
  91   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-5"><b>Checksum:</b> The MD5 file checksum.</p>
  92
  93   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-5"><b>Path:</b> The complete path to file.</p>
  94
  95   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-5"><b>Similarity (high):</b> Very similar image content.</p>
  96
  97   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-5"><b>Similarity:</b> Similar image content.</p>
  98
  99   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-5"><b>Similarity (low):</b> Slightly similar image content.</p>
 100
 101   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-5"><b>Similarity (custom):</b> Similar image content, the value to use to consider two images a match is configured in the <a href="options_advanced.html">Advanced tab</a> of the preferences dialog by setting the &#8220;Custom similarity threshold&#8221;.</p>
 102
 103   <p><br />
 104   <br />
 105   </p>
 106
 107   <p><u>Results list</u>
 108   </p>
 109
 110   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-5">Files that match with the selected comparison method will appear in the list. Matching files are grouped in alternating color.</p>
 111
 112   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-5">The order of the result list can not be changed, files will appear in the order of the search. When comparing by image content similarity, the matching groups will be sorted by order of rank starting with the files that are most similar.</p>
 113
 114   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-5">A <b>context menu</b> is available for the result list by right clicking the mouse or pressing the Menu key when a row has the focus.</p>
 115
 116   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-5"><b>Keyboard shortcuts</b> available in the results list:</p>
 117
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 126           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-7">Shortcut</p>
 127         </td>
 128
 129         <td width="25%">
 130           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-7">Context menu name</p>
 131         </td>
 132
 133         <td width="50%">
 134           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-7">Description</p>
 135         </td>
 136       </tr>
 137
 138       <tr valign="top">
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 140           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Enter</p>
 141         </td>
 142
 143         <td width="25%">
 144           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">View</p>
 145         </td>
 146
 147         <td width="50%">
 148           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Opens selected image in main window.</p>
 149         </td>
 150       </tr>
 151
 152       <tr valign="top">
 153         <td width="25%">
 154           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">V</p>
 155         </td>
 156
 157         <td width="25%">
 158           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">View in new window</p>
 159         </td>
 160
 161         <td width="50%">
 162           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Opens selected image in a new window.</p>
 163         </td>
 164       </tr>
 165
 166       <tr valign="top">
 167         <td width="25%">
 168           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Control + A</p>
 169         </td>
 170
 171         <td width="25%">
 172           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Select all</p>
 173         </td>
 174
 175         <td width="50%">
 176           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Selects all images.</p>
 177         </td>
 178       </tr>
 179
 180       <tr valign="top">
 181         <td width="25%">
 182           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Control + Shift + A</p>
 183         </td>
 184
 185         <td width="25%">
 186           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Select none</p>
 187         </td>
 188
 189         <td width="50%">
 190           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Clear the image selection.</p>
 191         </td>
 192       </tr>
 193
 194       <tr>
 195         <td width="25%" valign="bottom">
 196           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">1</p>
 197         </td>
 198
 199         <td width="25%" valign="top">
 200           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Select group 1 duplicates</p>
 201         </td>
 202
 203         <td width="50%" valign="top">
 204           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Selects the first image from each match group.</p>
 205         </td>
 206       </tr>
 207
 208       <tr>
 209         <td width="25%" valign="bottom">
 210           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">2</p>
 211         </td>
 212
 213         <td width="25%" valign="top">
 214           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Select group 2 duplicates</p>
 215         </td>
 216
 217         <td width="50%" valign="top">
 218           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Selects all but the first image from each match group.</p>
 219         </td>
 220       </tr>
 221
 222       <tr valign="top">
 223         <td width="25%">
 224           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Control + 1 through<br />
 225           Control + 0</p>
 226         </td>
 227
 228         <td width="25%">
 229           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Edit sub menu</p>
 230         </td>
 231
 232         <td width="50%">
 233           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Executes the respective editor command.</p>
 234         </td>
 235       </tr>
 236
 237       <tr valign="top">
 238         <td width="25%">
 239           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Control + P</p>
 240         </td>
 241
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 243           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Properties</p>
 244         </td>
 245
 246         <td width="50%">
 247           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Opens a properties window for selected images.</p>
 248         </td>
 249       </tr>
 250
 251       <tr valign="top">
 252         <td width="25%">
 253           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">C</p>
 254         </td>
 255
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 257           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Add to new collection</p>
 258         </td>
 259
 260         <td width="50%">
 261           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Creates a new collection containing the selected images.</p>
 262         </td>
 263       </tr>
 264
 265       <tr valign="top">
 266         <td width="25%">
 267           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1"><br />
 268           </p>
 269         </td>
 270
 271         <td width="25%">
 272           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Print</p>
 273         </td>
 274
 275         <td width="50%">
 276           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Opens a print dialog for selected images.</p>
 277         </td>
 278       </tr>
 279
 280       <tr valign="top">
 281         <td width="25%">
 282           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Control + C</p>
 283         </td>
 284
 285         <td width="25%">
 286           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Copy</p>
 287         </td>
 288
 289         <td width="50%">
 290           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Copy selected images.</p>
 291         </td>
 292       </tr>
 293
 294       <tr valign="top">
 295         <td width="25%">
 296           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Control + M</p>
 297         </td>
 298
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 300           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Move</p>
 301         </td>
 302
 303         <td width="50%">
 304           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Move selected images.</p>
 305         </td>
 306       </tr>
 307
 308       <tr valign="top">
 309         <td width="25%">
 310           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Control + R</p>
 311         </td>
 312
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 314           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Rename</p>
 315         </td>
 316
 317         <td width="50%">
 318           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Rename selected images.</p>
 319         </td>
 320       </tr>
 321
 322       <tr valign="top">
 323         <td width="25%">
 324           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Control + D</p>
 325         </td>
 326
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 328           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Delete</p>
 329         </td>
 330
 331         <td width="50%">
 332           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Delete selected images.</p>
 333         </td>
 334       </tr>
 335
 336       <tr valign="top">
 337         <td width="25%">
 338           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Delete</p>
 339         </td>
 340
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 342           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Remove</p>
 343         </td>
 344
 345         <td width="50%">
 346           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Remove selected images from result list.</p>
 347         </td>
 348       </tr>
 349
 350       <tr valign="top">
 351         <td width="25%">
 352           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Control + Delete</p>
 353         </td>
 354
 355         <td width="25%">
 356           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Clear</p>
 357         </td>
 358
 359         <td width="50%">
 360           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Cleared the result list.</p>
 361         </td>
 362       </tr>
 363
 364       <tr valign="top">
 365         <td width="25%">
 366           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Menu</p>
 367         </td>
 368
 369         <td width="25%">
 370           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1"><br />
 371           </p>
 372         </td>
 373
 374         <td width="50%">
 375           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Displays the context menu.</p>
 376         </td>
 377       </tr>
 378
 379       <tr valign="top">
 380         <td width="25%">
 381           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Control + T</p>
 382         </td>
 383
 384         <td width="25%">
 385           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1"><br />
 386           </p>
 387         </td>
 388
 389         <td width="50%">
 390           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Toggle display of thumbnails.</p>
 391         </td>
 392       </tr>
 393
 394       <tr valign="top">
 395         <td width="25%">
 396           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Control + W</p>
 397         </td>
 398
 399         <td width="25%">
 400           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1"><br />
 401           </p>
 402         </td>
 403
 404         <td width="50%">
 405           <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-1">Close window.</p>
 406         </td>
 407       </tr>
 408     </table>
 409   </div>
 410
 411   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-5"><br />
 412   <br />
 413   </p>
 414
 415   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-5">The <b>selection</b> can be changed using the keyboard and mouse the same as in a <a href="main_window_file_pane.html">file pane</a> of the main window.</p>
 416
 417   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-5">The image Dimensions column of the result list will only contain dimension information when comparing by dimensions, or when the data is easily available from memory or has been read from the cache.</p>
 418
 419   <p><br />
 420   <br />
 421   </p>
 422
 423   <p><u>Status bar</u>
 424   </p>
 425
 426   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-5">Along the bottom of the Find Duplicates window is an area that displays the count of files contained in the window, and the number of files in the result list.</p>
 427
 428   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-5">The status bar will also display the status of an active compare operation using the progress bar. A compare operation involves 2 or 3 stages, depending on the type of comparison. These are the stages in order:</p>
 429
 430   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-6">1) If necessary, extra data is read into memory for the comparison stage, the progress bar will indicate this stage with text that resembles &#8220;reading dimensions...&#8221;, &#8220;reading checksums...&#8221;, or &#8220;reading similarity data...&#8221;.<br />
 431   2) The images are compared using the selected method, the progress bar will indicate this stage with the text &#8220;comparing...&#8221;.<br />
 432   3) The results are sorted for display, the progress bar will indicate this stage with the text &#8220;sorting...&#8221;.</p>
 433
 434   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-5">Stage 1 is only used for the Dimensions, Checksum, and Similarity compare methods.</p>
 435
 436   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-5">If the time to complete a stage will be significant, an estimated time to completion will also be displayed in the progress bar. The estimated time only refers to the current stage, other stages are not included in the estimate. The time estimate is displayed using the format MINUTES:SECONDS.</p>
 437
 438   <p><br />
 439   <br />
 440   </p>
 441
 442   <p><u>Thumbnails</u>
 443   </p>
 444
 445   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-5">Thumbnails can be displayed beside each image in the result list by enabling the Thumbnails check box.</p>
 446
 447   <p><br />
 448   <br />
 449   </p>
 450
 451   <p><u>Compare two file sets</u>
 452   </p>
 453
 454   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-5">Sometimes it is useful to compare one group of files to another, different group of files. Enable this check box to compare two groups of files. When enabled a second list will appear, files can be added to this list using the same methods for the main list.</p>
 455
 456   <p class="gq-finding-duplicates-5">When comparing two file sets the results list will display matches between the two lists. For each match group, the first file is always from the main group, and the remaining files are always from the second group.</p>
 457
 458   <p><br />
 459   <br />
 460   </p>
 461
 462   <p><u>Drag and Drop</u>
 463   </p>
 464
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