LibrePhotos/librephotos

Photo Re-scan (aka Quick Scan)

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#1,104 opened on Dec 25, 2023

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Describe the enhancement you'd like At the moment from what I can see there is no quick way of re-scanning newly added pictures (unless I am missing something). It took me 3 days to perform (around 100K photos) initial scan and wrongly I have assume that subsequent scans will be quicker but that doesn't appear to be the case. Each scan takes equally long.

Describe why this will benefit the LibrePhotos There should be a way of performing quick scan just to add new photos otherwise using librephotos for large collections is will be unpractical.

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Research direction
Examine the current scanning code to understand how it works, then design a method to detect and process only new or changed photos, potentially using file modification timestamps or a database of previously scanned files.
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python
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backend
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3
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