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Update documentation for similarity cache
author | Colin Clark <colin.clark@cclark.uk> |
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date | Sun, 24 Jun 2018 16:13:47 +0100 |
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <chapter id="GuideImageSearch"> <title id="titleGuideImageSearch">Search and Select</title> <para>Geeqie provides comprehensive set of search methods, including not only the standard functions such as file date or size, but also image similarity.</para> <para>There is a duplicate file finder, which uses search parameters such as image dimensions or checksum. Two sets of image files may be compared.</para> <para>Geeqie also has a set of temporary "marks" or "tags" which may be allocated to any image as an aide to file organising.</para> <section id="GuideImageSearchCache"> <title id="titleGuideImageSearchCache">Caching Data For Searches</title> <para> Searching large numbers of files for similarity can take significant cpu time. Part of this is the time to compute the similarity matrix for each file. <para /> If the <link linkend="PreferencesThumbnails">Cache Thumbnails</link> option is selected in Preferences/General, the similarity matrix and the checksum will also be cached. This will reduce the time needed for future searches. <note>If you frequently search on similarity and your images are in a tree arrangement under a single point, initiating a one-time search on similarity from the top of the tree will generate the similarity data for all images.</note> <para>Similarity data are stored in a folder hierachy that mirrors the location of the source images. The data have the same name as the original appended by the file extension .sim.</para> <para> The root of the hierachy is: <para> <programlisting>$XDG_CACHE_HOME/geeqie/thumbnails/</programlisting> or, if $XDG_CACHE_HOME is not defined: <programlisting>$HOME/.cache/geeqie/thumbnails/</programlisting> </para> </para> </para> <para /> </section> <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="GuideImageSearchSearch.xml" /> <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="GuideImageSearchFindingDuplicates.xml" /> <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="GuideImageMarks.xml" /> <para /> </chapter>