Issue 448 in googlecl: Avoid duplication of photos on the same album (googlecl picasa upload)
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New issue 448 by brunolu...@gmail.com: Avoid duplication of photos on the
same album (googlecl picasa upload)
http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/issues/detail?id=448
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What service (Calendar, Docs, Picasa) should be enhanced?
Picasa
What is the enhancement?
Avoid re-uploading the same photos to the same album, this will produce
duplicates. The default behavior should be to not upload photos already in
the album. An option could be added to modify this default and allow the
creation of duplicates.
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Comment #1 on issue 448 by moro...@gmail.com: Avoid duplication of photos
http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/issues/detail?id=448
IMHO, it should be left as is by default, with a --replace option added
that does an optional 'get', check and 'delete' if required.
Googlecl is primarily useful for further scripting, rather than literally
typing the commands on the cli. Doing a replace using the gdata-python
library requires a 'get' to find existing photo, a 'delete' to delete it if
it exists, and finally a 'post' to put up the new version. And doing
a 'get' per-photo to check whether to for a replace by default is
inefficient, especially when many scripts will be batch processing.
In my own batch upload scripts, I do a 'get' on the album to retrieve the
photo's that are currently there, then check (and remove) against those I'm
uploading. This is far more efficient than doing a 'get' on each photo.