WoollyMammal
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2 years ago I had a thought about this, untested as yet though. I think the duplicated auto-albums might be because images are added within a date range that was already included as an autoalbum. As in:
- Photos 1 though 15 are all over the weekend
- Create an auto-album for that weekend
- Add new photo that was taken either during the same weekend or within 24 hours of the last photo
- Creates a new autoalbum, rather than adding the new photo(s) to the old auto-album. I think this is what's going on, I could be wrong though as I haven't tested this.
The full fix would be to detect new photos and which autoalbums already exist over that time period, then add the photo to that auto-album. The hacky fix would be to just delete all autoalbums and rerun the creation every time the "create autoalbums" button is pushed.
Note that adding a photo to an autoalbum may extend the autoalbum date range, which may result in having to merge two previous autoalbums. E.g: Autoalbum 1 is over the weekend, autoalbum 2 is for tuesday and wednesday. Adding a photo from the monday should merge autoalbum 1 and 2 into one big autoalbum, as every photo is linked by less than 24 hours.
A couple of users reported, that they have duplicated auto albums. It is not yet clear how that happened and should be investigated. A temporary fix would be to allow for deletion of auto albums.