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[stani <spe.stani.be@xxxxxxxxx>]

These are two different issues:
1) check for existing files *before* doing the processing on a picture
2) Resuming a session with (thousand) images

2 could be much more easy to fix. We could provide a "Tools>Resume
Session" entry. This invokes a GUI where you can choose from previous
unfinished sessions and have an overview of finished and unfinished
images.

1 will be very hard if not impossible under certain conditions. It would
only be possible if Phatch could ignore variable changes in the save
action. For example if Phatch uses an imagemagick action it is
impossible to know the new image dimensions, but also for autocrop etc
... As ignoring variable changes will lead to incorrect results and
possibly harm the reputation of Phatch, I don't feel it is worth the
effort.

What is your reaction?

** Changed in: phatch (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Changed in: phatch (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => stani (stani)

** Also affects: phatch
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: phatch
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

** Changed in: phatch
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Changed in: phatch
     Assignee: (unassigned) => stani (stani)

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performance: check for existing files *before* doing the processing on a picture
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/497594
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Status in Phatch = Photo & Batch!: Incomplete
Status in “phatch” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Binary package hint: phatch

Currently, if you uncheck the "Overwrite existing images" option, phatch still processes the image before trying to check if it should be saved or not.

I know this is not easy to fix, but ideally, when I have a thousand images to process and launch the batch job multiple times, it should just continue where it left off, without reprocessing images that already have an existing output file.