RPD does not recognize previously downloaded files

Software Rapid Photo Downloader
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As per topic title. When I insert an SD card with 5932 images that I have used previously and use ongoing it used to only indicate it will download X number of new files. ie. It knew that the great bulk of 5932 had been copied before. It no longer does that. It wants to copy them all again and will use twice as much space.

New Conditions: I moved from one system to another but with same target file structure on same drive. So I have not copied or changed files in target tree structure. I copied the Rapid-Photo-Downloader.conf file over and it appears to have that info. The same Destination profile is available and selected. The same options for renaming are active, in this case simply “lowercase extension”.

I saw some online forum post mentioning that you can “mark previously downloaded files”. But I have not seen how to do that. Maybe that is all I need here.

The situation is I moved from Mint 20.3 (Ubuntu Focal) to Mint 21 (Ubuntu Jammy) but kept the same underlying data drive. And now I cannot stop it from wanting to copy all 5932 files again and using double the space. I added the PPA/repo and installed exact same version again, and then copied conf file so it would have my old settings.

I know it seems like it must be a renaming/destination error but I have checked over and over that the same structure and filenames are being used, going to same root destination.

Weird - behaviours as well: the root folder in destination side bar (right side) vanishes, ie. folder name is there in tree window but name is missing when tree open but show when close tree. Also, some folder names below are enlarged and bold with obviously wrong font used. So maybe normal folder names might be 10px high but some are more like 20px high. These seem like folders where new files exist. No idea why this strange display behaviour but only started with move to new Mint 21 OS.

Thanks for any help with these issues. I’ve used RPD many times over many years now and it’s a great program and very useful. It’s much to my chagrin that things have gone wrong now.

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If you still have the old machine, I’d guess there is some sort of database that stores what has been imported before, you’ll want to copy that to the new machine

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Aah, yes. After some more digging and reading another old post here I found that there is a sqlite3 database file that would also need to be copied. However, I also found out how to mark files as previously downloaded and that’s what I did. I simply had to click the “Select All Photos” check box bottom right, and then right click on any thumbnail selected and could choose Mark Files As Previously Downloaded. This must add the files to a new sqlite3 db it creates.

Anyway, problem solved. Although I think I still have weird file tree folder font behaviours.