question for the wise guys "Jume" <jume[ at ]konithuki.com> 12.07.2007 09:46:11 is there a way to DEACTIVATE the feature of photo gallery that compares file name and contents to not import the same image twice? a registry key or wathever needed, i feel comfortable doing risky things like that so dont worry im doing some tests and it would be perfect if the gallery allows me to re-import the same image over and over and over... thank you!

Re: question for the wise guys Adam Albright <AA[ at ]ABC.net> 12.07.2007 13:19:30 On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:46:11 +0200, "Jume" <jume[ at ]konithuki.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] >is there a way to DEACTIVATE the feature of photo gallery that compares file >name and contents to not import the same image twice? a registry key or >wathever needed, i feel comfortable doing risky things like that so dont >worry > >im doing some tests and it would be perfect if the gallery allows me to >re-import the same image over and over and over... > >thank you! Not that I'm aware of because that really wouldn't be a feature and is hardwired into the programming would be my guess for the simple reason why would anybody want to have copy after copy of the same file in the same folder? Under XP it would under the right circumstances just add the word "copy" to the file name or myimage, myimage01, myimage02, etc.. At least now Vista is smart enough to ask if you want to replace to avoid cluttering up a folder with a bunch of duplicates.

Re: question for the wise guys "Jume" <jume[ at ]konithuki.com> 12.07.2007 22:43:30 i can reverse the question, why would i dont want it? not exactly that i want several copies but overwriting the older, though it would be the same in my testing case i will give you an example of what a real case would looks like: -if you dont knew already, you can extend the import functionality by writing "plugins", consider you want to do just that -because your plugin looks for something specific on the pictures, you want to try several little modifications on the same image through some amount of time (exif, some pixels, etc) -then, you may want to deactivate the duplications search so you dont need to erase-import-erase-import-erase... and just do import-import-import...

Re: question for the wise guys Adam Albright <AA[ at ]ABC.net> 12.07.2007 23:15:28 On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:43:30 +0200, "Jume" <jume[ at ]konithuki.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] >i can reverse the question, why would i dont want it? not exactly that i >want several copies but overwriting the older, though it would be the same >in my testing case > >i will give you an example of what a real case would looks like: >-if you dont knew already, you can extend the import functionality by >writing "plugins", consider you want to do just that >-because your plugin looks for something specific on the pictures, you want >to try several little modifications on the same image through some amount of >time (exif, some pixels, etc) >-then, you may want to deactivate the duplications search so you dont need >to erase-import-erase-import-erase... and just do import-import-import... You started out saying you were wishing to import multiple copies of the same file from your camera. That is quite different than making multiple copies in say Photoshop where each may have different hue or other adjustments. Not to quibble, but I can see why Microsoft and as far as I remember no other OS supports this directly since under most situations people would want to know if they were saving multiple copies of the same file to the same folder. If your must the east way is to rename them as you make them. That is called generational copies. myimageA, myimageB, and so on.