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[RaiMan <question200752@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #200752 on Sikuli changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/sikuli/+question/200752

RaiMan proposed the following answer:
--- The bug is *in* the design, if you will.
Fully agreed. Looking from this point of view, there are still many more design bugs in this on the other hand neat piece of software ;-)

--- seemed to be an artifact of the OCR process
When Sikuli started, the captured images where all named with the timestamps.
Starting with Sikuli X and the availability of OCR, there are 3 options selectable in the IDE settings
1. trying to excerpt some text from the image and use it as name (the standard)
2. name the images yourself with a popup pre-filled with the name from 1 (my preferred option)
3. the old one with the timestamp

option 1 has the problem, that different captures might yield the same
filename, so the IDE adds -n to the filename. This additionally happens
every time, when you grab a new image for an existing thumbnail, since
it is most probable, that it generates the same filename.

Since most people grab the same image multiple times in a find-click-
wait workflow, instead of storing/using a match or getLastMatch(), you
might get many filenames "some text-xx.png". Some of them are still
used, some of them might get obsolete.

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