For me, a duplicate Flashcard is one where the Chinese is the same on both AND the pronunciation is also the same on both. Comparing the definitions is clearly too much for a computer to do, so a prompt is appropriate.
BUT, I seem to see two very serious problems:
1. Pleco seems to take ONLY the first Chinese character from the new card and then search for any existing (currently being imported?) card with the same first character. This causes a vast number of false duplicate hits.
2. There are entirely different formats used for displaying the card being imported and the card it is suspected of being a duplicate of. These different formats make the manual decision process much too difficult to use when wading through a very large number of false positive hits.
(I use Excel and a sort on my card data (Chinese first, then Bopomofo) along with duplicate flagging to scrub my data of any and all TRUE duplicates, but Pleco continues to flag a very large percentage of false positives.)
The list I'm playing with now has a bit over 1,500 items. The next list I'm working on will be around 16,000 items. That one is a little more than half typed. I have to be really bored to work on it.
BUT, I seem to see two very serious problems:
1. Pleco seems to take ONLY the first Chinese character from the new card and then search for any existing (currently being imported?) card with the same first character. This causes a vast number of false duplicate hits.
2. There are entirely different formats used for displaying the card being imported and the card it is suspected of being a duplicate of. These different formats make the manual decision process much too difficult to use when wading through a very large number of false positive hits.
(I use Excel and a sort on my card data (Chinese first, then Bopomofo) along with duplicate flagging to scrub my data of any and all TRUE duplicates, but Pleco continues to flag a very large percentage of false positives.)
The list I'm playing with now has a bit over 1,500 items. The next list I'm working on will be around 16,000 items. That one is a little more than half typed. I have to be really bored to work on it.