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Duplicate Review metadata synchronization is easy to misunderstand
Source: immich-app/immich#29160 · opened by @Bianconera
I have searched the existing feature requests, both open and closed, to make sure this is not a duplicate request. • Yes The feature While using Duplicate Review, I initially thought I had discovered a bug because assets were unexpectedly appearing in my albums and descriptions were being copied between videos. After several hours of investigation, I found that this is actually the intended behavior documented in the Duplicates Utility documentation: • Album membership is synchronized • Descriptions are synchronized • Tags are synchronized • Favorites are synchronized • Ratings are synchronized Only after reading the documentation carefully did I realize that the behavior was caused by metadata synchronization during duplicate resolution. For photo libraries this behavior makes sense. However, for large video libraries, the result can be surprising: • Keeping multiple assets can suddenly add dozens of videos to an albu…
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