i-Declone: Find a particular image, ignore small?

[kunkel321]

Hi Nikos,
I hope all is well with you these days. I have an i-Declone question: I have a particular photo that I took. I'm *positive* that I have a full size version of it (not sure of the exact dimensions). I found a smaller version of it that I have posted on Facebook. I downloaded the smaller version and it's in my Download folder. Can I use i-Declone to find other local versions of that same image on my Win 10 machine? Importantly, I have TONS of icon images, so if possible, I'd like to ignore images less the 256x256 in the scan. Is this possible?

Happy Holidays to you and the family, by the way!

[nikos]

declone wasn't designed for this kind of situation, but you can try the master folder trick to limit the comparisons. So put the small image you want on a usb stick (say F:), ideally without any other images in F: (get an empty one), then add C: as an extra scan folder. Make C: a master folder so it wont be searched itself

for the smallness criterion, you can adjust the "small files excluded" setting to a particular file size, however make sure you don't exclude the target image itself on F: ! A trick here may be to resize it to something bigger so it grows in size. Or save it as BMP (not resized), which again will increase its size.

Finally start a similarity scan by content using this approach (see F1 for the manual)

The similarity algorithm for photos uses the picture date as a guide. If you want to search for duplicates among generic images (not necessarily photos), untick Files must have same extension option in Advanced page (see next section). Then Average brightness will be used as the controlling property and may work better for PNG and BMP images for example.

I am not very confident that declone will find your photo but have a go and if you've been not-naughty all year, there could be some xmas magic