I find completely different files marked as DUPLICATES

[stenp]

I have just started to evaluate iMatch 2025 and indexed some folders on my Windows 11 PC.

4 .wma files are marked as DUPLICATES but they are absoloutely not duplicates by name, content or metadata. I need to know if I have anything incorrect configured before I go further with iMatch.

Thank you
Sten

[Mario]

Marked as Duplicates meaning?
WMA is a very old video file format and probably not really suited for the content-based duplicate checker IMatch uses to identify visually similar images. Probably it picks up similar frame noise or whatever.

Switch the corresponding option to off or binary identical when you don't work with image files.
See Searching for Duplicate Files

The visually duplicate check is just an optional hint, enabling users with large collections and potentially unwanted copies of images to find them quickly. You can just ignore it if you don't need it.

[stenp]

OK. Thank you.

I understand that as a new community user my posts must be approved for a while. After that, will the captcha verification also be dismissed?

[Mario]

Your first posts must be approved Once you are accepted, the Captcha will be gone.

This community is flooded by bot requests and I have to wipe and clean every day.
Keeping the bots and spammers out is important, but it gets worse and worse thanks to AI.
Moderating the initial posts, enforced email verification keeps things nice and smooth.