question regarding duplicate file deletion and excluding bulk duplicates and false positives.
Hello, i use Immich in a very unusual way, rather than using it for my photo gallery i use it to sort my collection of memes, it has been incredibly useful when it comes to images however it has some issues with videos, such as videos with a white or black first frames being labelled as duplicates or ones with a intro (such as a tiktok or other media platform one)
would anyone happen to know if there is any ways to discriminate/filter through only singular image duplicates and similar things? or potentially make it ignore multible video duplicates, because I am having a real problem with false positives right now.
(Image included shows a example of a false positive where the image on the video is correct but everything else is not the same)


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:wave: Hey @Papayaman,
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If this ticket can be closed you can use the /close
command, and re-open it later if needed.I also do not wish to waste anyones time as I am by no means competent in this space of server operation and so on, please forgive me if I am providing stupid information.
(I only managed to launch and start this immich "conatiner" using a youtube guide and I am very ignorant regarding everything else, (guide in question https://youtu.be/ZJH3ee-fnCc?si=immfrlOkBTqmUD0M) if it is useful I have operated multible "hive OS" servers in the past but that is likely only because they had been given proper UI for laymen like me.)
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