Aspect

What's new

New features

- Implemented the duplicate finder dialog
- Finds exact binary duplicates of all photos/videos in the library
- Groups them together to allow quickly determining which files to keep/delete without having to handle every single file
- Physically verifies that it is safe to delete a duplicate before doing so to ensure that the last copy is always kept
- Preserves metadata and collection entries of deleted duplicates by transferring it to the remaining copy
- Implemented the “Regenerate metadata cache” and “Regenerate previews” menu entries
- Added a number of additional scripting APIs
- openSQliteDatabase and SQLiteDatabase class
- chooseFile, chooseDirectory functions
- existsFile, readFileUTF8, writeFileUTF8 functions
- calculateStrongChecksum, calculateWeakChecksum functions
- Library.getStrongFiles, Library.getWeakFiles methods
- Library.createEvent, .createTextFile, .createRawNode methods
- Library.importFilesPlain method
- Library.modifyFileMetadata method
- .type and .owner methods for library node classes
- toJSON, encodeInetPath functions
- See also the overview at https://aspect.bildhuus.com/docs/addons/development/

Enhancements

- The library catalog now gets saved prior to physically starting to import files to make the process more robust
- Improved error handling in add-on scripts
- All scripting APIs that take paths now also handle URLs as input
- Add-ons now need to get user permission before modifying the library
- The folder browser now allows to add a folder to the library as a scanned folder

Bug fixes

- Fixed a possible crash when exiting the application right after applying new scanned folder settings
- Fixed window redraw issues that were especially pronounced in dialogs on macOS/Linux
- Fixed crashes sometimes caused by manually moving files to an individual photos folder that doesn't match the metadata
- Fixed error reporting behavior during application startup
- Fixed an issue where an auto-import could import into the wrong library after a library switch
- Fixed an issue with representing host IDs used for P2P synchronization sometimes resulting in invalid URLs
- Fixed bogus errors when handling non-library images that previously had an XMP sidecar file
- Fixed a crash happening when attempting to edit an image with malformed XMP metadata
- Fixed a crash happening when editing keywords for non-library files
- Fixed a possible crash in the library creation or shoe box pattern confirmation dialogs
- Fixed an error message appearing when pressing backspace on macOS when it shouldn't
- Fixed displaying add-on menu entries on macOS