Testing Orthanc at the moment and imported a load of images into the system, but the drive where the images are located ran out of space. As it’s a virtual machine I have extended the volume.
However since I don’t know what images have transferred across and which haven’t if I drag and drop all the images again is Orthanc clever enough to realise the DICOM images may already be there and ignore those or will it create duplicates?
Not sure if this applies in your case, but there is a config setting in orthanc.json:
// Specifies how Orthanc reacts when it receives a DICOM instance
// whose SOPInstanceUID is already stored. If set to “true”, the new
// instance replaces the old one. If set to “false”, the new
// instance is discarded and the old one is kept. Up to Orthanc
// 1.4.1, the implicit behavior corresponded to “false”.
“OverwriteInstances” : false,
Hi,
In any case, If you upload twice the same file in Orthanc, Orthanc will only store one file on disk so there’s no risk of re-uploading the whole set of files.
The OverwriteInstances is useful if you upload an “updated” version of an instance (while keeping the same SOPInstanceUID).
HTH,
Alain