long_help="List of checked files with provided extension(s). There are also helpful macros which allow to easy use a typical extensions like:\nIMAGE(\"jpg,kra,gif,png,bmp,tiff,webp,hdr,svg\"),\nTEXT(\"txt,doc,docx,odt,rtf\"),\nVIDEO(\"mp4,flv,mkv,webm,vob,ogv,gifv,avi,mov,wmv,mpg,m4v,m4p,mpeg,3gp\") or\nMUSIC(\"mp3,flac,ogg,tta,wma,webm\")\n "
long_help="List of checked files with provided extension(s). There are also helpful macros which allow to easy use a typical extensions like:\nIMAGE(\"jpg,kra,gif,png,bmp,tiff,hdr,svg\"),\nTEXT(\"txt,doc,docx,odt,rtf\"),\nVIDEO(\"mp4,flv,mkv,webm,vob,ogv,gifv,avi,mov,wmv,mpg,m4v,m4p,mpeg,3gp\") or\nMUSIC(\"mp3,flac,ogg,tta,wma,webm\")\n "
@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ Then, for each selected tag by which we want to search for duplicates, we perfor
### Similar Images
It is a tool for finding similar images that differ e.g. in watermark, size etc.
The tool first collects images with specific extensions that can be checked - `["jpg", "png", "bmp", "ico", "webp", "tiff"]`.
The tool first collects images with specific extensions that can be checked - `["jpg", "png", "bmp", "ico", "tiff"]`.
Next cached data are loaded from file to prevent hashing twice same file.
Automatically cache which points to non existing data is deleted.
@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ Only some image extensions are supported, because I rely on image crate. Also so
For now Czkawka store only 2 files on disk:
- `czkawka_gui_config.txt` - stores configuration of GUI which may be loaded at startup
- `cache_similar_image.txt` - stores cache data and hashes which may be used later without needing to compute image hash again - DO NOT TRY TO EDIT THIS FILE MANUALLY! - editing this file may cause app crashes.
- `cache_broken_files.txt` - stores cache data of broken files
First file is located in this path
@ -151,7 +152,7 @@ Second with cache here:
Linux - `/home/username/.cache/czkawka`
Mac - `/Users/Username/Library/Caches/pl.Qarmin.Czkawka`
Windows - `C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Qarmin\Czkawka\cache`
@ -181,7 +182,7 @@ There are several buttons which do different actions:
- Add (directories) - adds directories to include or exclude
- Remove (directories) - remove directories to search or to exclude
- Manual Add (directories) - allows to write by hand directories(may be used to write non visible in file manager directories)
- Save current configuration - saves current GUI configuration to configuration file
- Save current configuration - saves current GUI configuration to configuration file
- Load configuration - loads configuration of file and override current GUI config
- Reset configuration - reset current GUI configuration to default
@ -212,4 +213,4 @@ By default all tools only write about results to console, but it is possible wit
- **Manually adding multiple directories**
You can manually edit config file `czkawka_gui_config.txt` and add required directories. After that load configuration.
- **Slow checking of little number similar images**
If you checked before a big amount of images(several tens of thousands) and them still exists on disk, then information's about it are loaded from cache and save to it, even if you have check now only a few images. You can rename cache file `cache_similar_image.txt`(to be able to use it again) or delete it - cache will regenerate but with lower amount of entries it should load and save a lot of faster.
If you checked before a big amount of images(several tens of thousands) and them still exists on disk, then information's about it are loaded from cache and save to it, even if you have check now only a few images. You can rename cache file `cache_similar_image.txt`(to be able to use it again) or delete it - cache will regenerate but with lower amount of entries it should load and save a lot of faster.