Consider another unique tag solution (instead of folderfilename tag)

[lbell]

The default folderfilename tag seems a bit cludgy -- especially since it makes it really difficult to use the flickr.com/myaccount/tags list (since it has a separate tag for every picture).

I'm mostly writing this to remind myself to look into a more elegant way to mark a photo as unique (and comparable to new photos)....

Prehaps a history record based on filename/exifdate/something-else-non-null instead of tag based...

[richq]

A hash of the file contents would certainly be unique. But seeing tags like "6c7f8453aee1564bc60240ab2bbd6f83" on the tags page would not fill me with glee, and you couldn't easily get from photo on flickr to photo locally if all you knew was the remote hash value.

[yield65]

Maybe use the absolute path and the actual folder of the photo plus the metadata (if any) as a picture tag and just use the original local file name. But I also was thinking about changing to a hash model because from my point of view, it gives me more history control over what has been uploaded, what is pending or what has failed. And maybe move the historyfile to sqlite for large photo galleries?