Import no longer filters out existing photos (PhotoDirector 9)

Philwild

Senior Member Location: Hemel Hempstead, UK Joined: Oct 05, 2017 12:04 Messages: 208 Offline

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Feb 21, 2018 12:52

I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but the option to not import existing photos seems to be gone from the import dialog.

I wanted to add some photos to an established project. Because there were too many, looking for duplicates myself was not an option.

I remembered that there had been the option to ignore existing photos and the help files mention it, but I can't see it.

Maybe it has been moved somewhere else!

PIX

Senior Contributor Joined: Sep 21, 2011 00:02 Messages: 2910 Offline

Feb 21, 2018 13:23

Hello Philwild,

I was alarmed, at first, when I noticed this after PhD9's release.

What has happened is the checkbox has been removed from the interface & NOT importing duplicates has become the default.

So, if one imports 99 of the photos in a folder containing 100 then later tries to import the whole folder (of 100 photos), only the one missing photo will be imported.

PhD9 users do not end up with multiple "copies" of the same photos in the library.

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Philwild

Senior Member Location: Hemel Hempstead, UK Joined: Oct 05, 2017 12:04 Messages: 208 Offline

Feb 22, 2018 04:42

Pix

Thanks for your help.

This was a bit scary for us "long-term" users!

Yes, I can see it does this "out of the box".

I suppose they need to change the user guide and I think it would be helpful if there was a message telling you how many were being imported and why.

Thnks

Phil

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